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Edited by Paul Clifford
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Why the 2019/20 season at Louvre Abu Dhabi is
going to be totally amazing. By Harriet Shephard
All change
Louvre
A NEW SEASON of exhibitions and events will
launch at Louvre Abu Dhabi in September,
and we couldn’t be more excited.
Entitled Changing Societies, the 2019/20
programme at the Saadiyat Island attraction
includes four new international exhibitions.
The first new collection to arrive at the
world-renowned museum takes visitors back
to Paris in the 1920s.
Rendezvous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall,
Modigliani & Co. (1900-1939) features more
than 80 masterpieces that are being exhibited
for the first time in the Middle East.
The artists on show include Pablo Picasso,
Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Sonia
Delaunay and Giorgio De Chirico, and you’ll
be able to check it out from September 18 to
December 7.
Meanwhile, if you love the finer things in life,
then you’ll adore the 10,000 Years of Luxury
collection, which is on display from October 30
to February 15 2020.
Exploring the history of luxury, it showcases
350 extraordinary objects from the fields of
fashion, jewellery, art, furniture and design.
Moving on to 2020, the first new exhibition
of the year will highlight the stories of brave
fighting heroes from across the world.
Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East
and West looks at how tales of knightly culture
have been told throughout history, in both the
Islamic East and largely Christian West.
Finally, film fanatics have a real treat
coming up in April 2020.
Charlie Chaplin: When Art Met Cinema
looks at the connection between some of the
great Charlie Chaplin films and the works of
some of the most famous avant-garde artists
of the time.
Manuel Rabaté, director of Louvre
at the
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