Great attendance, record waiting time by day and by night, event-exhibitions... the Grand Palais is a high place of culture in Paris. Built in 1897 for the World's Fair, the "Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts" is not only a witness to more than a century of exhibitions and fairs, but also to our changing society...
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Great attendance, record waiting time by day and by night, event-exhibitions... the Grand Palais is a high place of culture in Paris. Built in 1897 for the World's Fair, the "Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts" is not only a witness to more than a century of exhibitions and fairs, but also to our changing society. Built in 1897 for the World's Fair, the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées is not only a witness to more than a century of exhibitions and fairs, but also to our changing society.
A documentary about this monument is presented for the first time and reveals to us, thanks to very rich visual and sound archives, how much the Grand Palais is a witness but also an actor of our time, and how much it still fits in today's most prestigious Arts and events diffusion.
Sandra Paugam is the director; she made for the Rmn-Grand Palais the film DEGAS ET LE NU which accompanied the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay.
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