Art Of The Day Weekly
#436 - from 23 June 2016 to 29 June 2016
Theatre mask, Japan, Edo period (18th c). Musée Georges-Labit © Ville de Toulouse.
The Quai Branly museum adopts Chirac
PARIS – Less of a builder than Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac is nevertheless the instigator of the musée du quai Branly. And the institution is celebrating its tenth anniversary by paying a tribute to the former President of the French Republic. Aside from the fact that his name is now immortalised in the institution’s name, Chirac is studied through his passion for non-European cultures, from the Far-East (China and Japan) to Africae (he did his military duty in Algeria), all the way to America (his refusal, in 1992, to be associated to the celebrations of the fifth centennial of the discovery of the continent, synonym of genocide, remains in everyone’s memory).
• Jacques Chirac, ou le dialogue des cultures at musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, from 21 June to 9 October 2016.