The Pompidou Centre is to close from 2023 for four years of renovations, France’s culture minister has said.
“There were two options, one involved renovating the centre while keeping it open, the other was closing it completely. I chose the second because it should be shorter and a little bit less expensive”
culture minister Roselyne Bachelot
The iconic building, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and opened in 1977 is in need of severe restoration, which is currently projected to cost roughly €200+ million.
“We don’t have a choice, the building is suffering,” lamented Serge Lasvignes, the museum’s president. Among the intended fixes are the removal of asbestos from its windows and façade, and the reworking of the iconic exposed water pipes, electrical and air-conditioning conduits, and elevators, all in bright primary colours, that grace the building’s exterior.
Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) is making two simultaneous gifts of nearly 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and as many works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Serge Lasvignes, chairman of the board of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Chairman of the Centre national d’art et de culture-Georges Pompidou, has appointed Chiara Parisi Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz
At the weekend, over 20,000 people flocked to the opening of the Kanal – Centre Pompidou, an offshoot of Paris’s iconic art museum, housed in a vast warehouse in Brussels.
Twenty years after the first Jeff Koons exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Les Coutiers Du Désir, the American designer has come back to the Paris art museum, with a unique retrospective which will be held through until March next year
