French Architect Picked for Film Museum
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Christian de Portzamparc and his Paris-based firm have been chosen to design a new movie museum for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Actor Jude Law is awarded one of France's top cultural honours at a ceremony in London.
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New York's Whitney Museum, which  houses some of the best American art from the past century,  said on Tuesday it had picked Italian architect Renzo Piano's  design for its expansion and renovation.
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PARIS  - The two most visited museums in Paris, the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, are facing off in an unusual contest -- as patrons of the seventh art. In the next two years they will between them underwrite screenplays by seven critically acclaimed international filmmakers for films to be shot -- at least partly -- inside their walls.
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BEIJING, CHINA.- A protective plastic wrap is placed over a model of the Concorde aircraft, at the National Museum in Beijing, in preparation for the 09 October opening of the Design D'En France art exhibition.
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One of the world&#39;s most famous art museums, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has undergone a major redesign by a Japanese architect.
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After months of deliberation, the mayor of Paris has chosen a French architect to oversee a fresh makeover of Les Halles, the city's old market district.
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A museum displays the surrealist's celluloid endeavors and delves into his relationship with the film industry.
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When the Museum of Modern Art was looking to remake itself, Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi reportedly told MoMA&#39;s director that given &quot;a lot of money, I will give you great architecture.
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The Museum of the Moving Image will add new galleries, an outdoor theater, an educational center and a new collection storage facility as part of a &#36;25 million renovation and expansion of its Queens site, museum officials announced Thursday.
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French national museums including the Louvre in Paris will let in many visitors free in the coming months, in an experiment intended to open up high culture to a wider public.
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The northern French town of Lens has been selected as the site of an annex to the Louvre museum in Paris as part of a plan to culturally and economically boost neglected parts of the country, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said.
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A branch of the Louvre museum is to be built in Abu Dhabi, according to an agreement signed Tuesday between the governments of France and the United Arab Emirates.Comment
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New Orleans should embrace its   watery environment and restore wetlands as it rebuilds,   suggests a prize-winning architect hired to design a   modernistic central park in the city's downtown.
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The BBC's Caroline Wyatt goes beneath the city of Paris and finds some people's idea of cinema heaven.
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Kazakhstan is in talks with a French architect whose firm designed Paris's Parc des Princes and Montreal's Olympic sports complex to build a world-class cycling arena for the former Soviet republic, Akhmetov's office said.
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French President Jacques Chirac, cast aside his political differences with America to decorate the US filmmaker behind such cinematic greats as Jaws and ET.