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Metamorphoses: Ovid’s Eternal Tales Reimagined at the Rijksmuseum

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Passion and desire, lust and jealousy, cunning and deceit

From the Renaissance to the present day, artists have returned again and again to its vivid tales of gods and mortals, drawn to a universe where nothing remains fixed and transformation is the only constant. In early 2026, this enduring fascination will take centre stage at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with the landmark exhibition Metamorphoses.

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The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at Place du Palais-Royal

In Paris, in October 2025, the Fondation Cartier opened its new site at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in the heart of the capital, right across from the Louvre.

Ricardo Martins

Chantal Akerman

Directed by celebrated Belgian film director Chantal Akerman and loosely based on the fifth volume of Proust’s “À La Recherche du Temps Perdue” it tells an interesting story of love, obsession and desire.

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Philippe Thuriet

A master draftsman, Philippe’s practice is rooted in the tactile immediacy of traditional media: pencil, sanguine chalk, and charcoal become his conduits into the subconscious. His compositions emerge not from the surface of the canvas, but from the liminal spaces between memory, emotion, and dream. The unconscious is not merely a theme in his work—it is the terrain he navigates with painterly precision and poetic sensitivity.

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