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The Centre Pompidou (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ pɔ̃pidu]), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (lit. ' National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture '), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
The site of Beaubourg, the western part of Marais, was chosen for the Centre Georges Pompidou, France's national Museum of Modern Art, which is widely considered one of the world's most important cultural institutions.
KANAL - Centre Pompidou is a museum for modern and contemporary art located in Brussels, Belgium, near the Brussels–Charleroi Canal, in the former Citroën Garage buildings. [3] The opening is scheduled for 2026. [4] [5] During the renovations, the museum remains open at its temporary location K1, at 1, avenue du Port / Havenlaan. [6]
The designers of Pompidou are Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Peter Rice. [9] The Centre Pompidou has had over 150 million visitors since 1977. [8] Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. In 1997 renovations had begun to drastically change ...
The Stravinsky Fountain is a shallow basin of 580 square metres (6,200 sq ft) located in Place Stravinsky, between the Centre Pompidou and the Church of Saint-Merri. Within the basin are sixteen works of sculpture inspired by the compositions of Igor Stravinsky.
With the creation of the Centre Pompidou, the museum moved to its current location in 1977. The museum has the second largest collection of modern and contemporary art in the world, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with more than 100,000 works of art by 6,400 artists from 90 countries since Fauvism in 1905.
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Map of the Light, scenography around the Centre Pompidou-Metz Cyclopes , lightpoles, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010 Elle's Appelle Sabine , from Sandrine Bonnaire , 35mm film, plexiglass, resin, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, 2010