Gallery sights in Côte D’azur
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Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
European and American avant-garde works from the 1950s to the present are the focus of this museum. Highlights include many works by Nice's New Realists, Christo, César, Arman, Yves Klein and Niki de Saint-Phalle. The building's rooftop also works as an exhibition space (with panoramas of Nice to boot).
Smartphone users will be able to access audio commentary thanks to flashcodes.
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La Malmaison
Walk a few blocks along La Croisete to La Malmaison, a seaside pavilion in the former games and tea room of Cannes' grandest hotels of the 1860s, the Grand Hôtel (opened in 1864, shut in 1950, demolished and rebuilt in the 1960s). Modern art exhibitions fill part of La Malmaison today.
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Centre National d'Art Contemporain
Sensational temporary photographic and contemporary art exhibitions are displayed at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, inside 18th-century Villa Arson, 1km north of the town centre. Take bus 36 to the Villa Arson stop, or bus 4, 7 or 26 to the Fanny stop on blvd de Cessole.
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Lavoir Vasserot
Summer art exhibitions fill the 19th-century Lavoir Vasserot, the former communal washhouse.
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Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Séverin Wunderman
In 2005 art collector Séverin Wunderman donated some 1500 Cocteau works to Menton, on the condition that the town build a dedicated Cocteau museum. And what a museum Menton built: opened in 2011, the futuristic, low-rise building has breathed new life into the slumbering city and is a wonderful space to try and make sense of Cocteau's eclectic work.
The museum's collection focuses on Cocteau's graphic works. Displays are organised chronologically and thematically, from Cocteau's early works as an illustrator to his cinematographic swansong, the convoluted and abstract Testament of Orpheus (in which he stages his own death). There are poignant drawings from his rehab days…
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