At the head of the Picasso Museum since 2014, Laurent Le Bon is one of those typically French personalities who are the pride of the world of French culture. Major in the competition for heritage curators, this art historian has a CV as long as the arm of a Picasso character.
Curator of the Beaubourg-Georges Pompidou center in 2000 and professor at the Louvre school, he is the one who pilots the Pompidou-Metz center project of which he becomes director in 2013.
Also the curator of numerous contemporary art exhibitions including Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami at the Palace of Versailles in the 2000s, he is also responsible for the artistic direction of the 2012 edition of Nuit Blanche.
Author of numerous art books and catalogs, this eclectic museum director has a 360-degree artistic knowledge without departing from a certain simplicity. Since the reopening of the Picasso museum, more than three million people have visited the institution he directs in the heart of the Marais.
When he was appointed in 2014, Le Monde described this non-conformist as “one of the most inventive personalities in the world of French museums, where he embodies the exception rather than the rule”. Some will add: “A Maraisian at heart”!
D’OTHER LOVERS OF THE MARAIS
A meeting with the philosopher Charles Pépin
Philosopher, writer, successful author, professor at Sciences Po and at the Lycée de la Légion d'Honneur, Charles Pépin, who bears a royal first name twice, logically lives in the former district of Charles V, i.e. -say in the Marais. For having traveled up and down (“It’s by walking…
Librairie 0fr., the temple of “cool”
The Ofr bookstore. is so open to the world that it spills onto the sidewalk. Rue Dupetit-Thouars, the books spread out on the tables on either side of the entrance give an idea of what awaits customers behind the window: ultra-trendy fashion magazines, design magazines...
Emily in Paris… and Bruno in the Marais!
In Emily in Paris, he is Luc, the kindly “nerdy” colleague of the American heroine of the Netflix series. A specimen of Parisian hedonist who explains to young Emily, newly arrived in a luxury marketing agency in the capital, the codes of the world of work in France...
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THE MOOD MARSH
The best tattoo parlors in Marais
Tattooing, an age-old practice, has long been the prerogative of convicts, dock workers, the underworld and sailors. Although it has become democratized, now affecting all profiles and concerning one in five French people, including 16% women compared to 10% men, it still remains taboo due to its definitive and transgressive nature.
Juliette Drouet actress, muse and mistress of Victor Hugo
At 14 rue Sainte-Anastase, from 1836 to 45 and at 12 from 1845 to 48, a few hundred meters from Place des Vosges, lived the muse and lover of Victor Hugo, Juliette Drouet née Julienne Gauvain.
Piccola Mia, the pizzas of the Republic
On the Place de la République, a brasserie with Italian accents has just opened, which quickly made people forget the old Pizza Pino. Welcome to Piccola Mia, the fruit of the joyful encounter between Italian chef Denny Imbroisi, pizza chef Julien Serri and mixologist Matthias Giroud who creates a creative cocktail menu.