On Show at Louvre Abu Dhabi (English)

In this episode, we visit the exhibition Impressionism: Pathways to Modernity with the exhibition’s curators Sylvie Patry and Stéphane Guégan, respectively Chief Curator, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at Musée d’Orsay, and Advisor to the Presidency of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie.

The exhibition brings together more than 150 masterpieces and features pioneering works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Cézanne... inviting visitors to explore why Impressionism was considered so shocking in the 19th century and how it paved the way for the artistic revolutions that were to come.

The exhibition Impressionism: Pathways to Modernity is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi from the 12th of October 2022 until the 5th of February 2023.

On Show is a podcast produced by Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Our warm thanks go to Sylvie Patry and Stéphane Guégan for their participation and the team of France Museum for their support.

This podcast episode is also available in Arabic and French on the Louvre Abu Dhabi mobile app and our website: louvreabudhabi.ae

Executive production: Amine Kharchach, Marine Botton.
Preparation, scripting and episode host: Marine Botton
Recording: Amine Kharchach, Richard Haggan.
Post-production, music and mix: Making Waves.
Show cover: Maysa Sultan.

Artwork : Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (Limoges, 1841–Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919), The Cup of Chocolate , 1877–78, Oil on canvas, Louvre Abu Dhabi (LAD 2022.002). © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo Sylvie Van Roey

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In this episode, we visit the exhibition Versailles & the World in company of Hélène Delalex and Bertrand Rondot, curators of the exhibition and respectively Curator and Head Curator of Furniture and Decorative Arts at the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.

The exhibition invites you for an immersion within the dazzling 17th and 18th century court of Versailles. You will discover how the palace became a unique meeting place of knowledge and art for different civilisations through a selection of key masterpieces on display in the exhibition.

The exhibition Versailles & the World is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi from the 26th of January until the 4th of June 2022.

On Show is a podcast produced by Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Our warm thanks go to our guests Hélène Delalex and Bertrand Rondot for their participation and the team of France Museum for their support.

This podcast episode is also available in Arabic and French on the Louvre Abu Dhabi mobile app and our website: louvreabudhabi.ae

Executive production, preparation and scripting: Amine Kharchach, Marine Botton.
Episode host: Marine Botton.
Recording: Richard Haggan.
Post-production, music and mix: Making Waves.
Show cover: Maysa Sultan

Artwork credits: View of the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie, Attributed to Etienne Allegrain (1644-1736), c. 1695, Oil on canvas, Versailles, Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. © RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Franck Raux

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In this new episode of our podcast, our host Aisha AlAhmadi, Assistant Curator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, visits the exhibition Bollywood Superstars: A Short Story of Indian Cinema with the exhibition’s curators Julien Rousseau, Head of the Asian Collection at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Hélène Kessous, Anthropologist, and specialist of South Asian cinema,

Featuring extracts from some 40 films and more than 80 artworks, Bollywood Superstars investigates the diverse origins of Indian cinema. From 19th century traditional shadow theatre and early silent movies to the 21st century gods of the screen, the exhibition presents the richness of the India’s image-making traditions alongside the influence of popular arts such as storytelling, dance, and theatre, and its close relationship with mythology and religion.

The exhibition Bollywood Superstars: A Short Story of Indian Cinema is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi from the 24th of January until the 4th of June 2023.

On Show is a podcast produced by Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Our warm thanks go to our guests Julien Rousseau and Hélène Kessous for their participation and the team of France Museum for their support.

This podcast episode is also available in Arabic and French on the Louvre Abu Dhabi mobile app and our website: louvreabudhabi.ae

Executive production: Amine Kharchach; Marine Botton.
Episode Host: Aisha AlAhmadi.
Preparation and scripting: Marine Botton, Aisha AlAhmadi.
Recording: Amine Kharchach and Richard Haggan.
Post-production, music and mix: Making Waves.
Show Cover: Maysa Sultan.

Artwork credits: Emperor Aurangzeb in Public Audience, Mughal Empire, India, Udaipur, 1710-1720, gouache on paper, gold highlights, Louvre Abu Dhabi (LAD 2012.092). © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / APF

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In this episode, we visit the exhibition Stories of Paper with the exhibition’s curators Xavier Salmon and Victor Hundsbuckler, respectively Director and Curator at the Department of Drawings & Prints at the Musée du Louvre.

Stories of Paper explores the special material’s qualities and how, even as digital technologies threaten to make paper obsolescent, this most universal of media continues to occupy an essential place in contemporary creativity, enquiry, and self-expression.

The exhibition Stories of Paper is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi from the 20th of April until the 24th of July 2022.

On Show is a podcast produced by Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Our warm thanks go to our guests Xavier Salmon and Victor Hundsbuckler for their participation and the team of France Museum for their support.

This podcast episode is also available in Arabic and French on the Louvre Abu Dhabi mobile app and our website: louvreabudhabi.ae

Executive production, preparation and scripting : Amine Kharchach, Marine Botton.
Episode host: Marine Botton.
Recording: Amine Kharchach, Richard Haggan.
Post-production, music and mix: Making Waves.
Show cover: Maysa Sultan

Artwork credits: Under the Wave off Kanagawa. Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), c. 1830 – 1832, Japan, ink and colour on paper. Louvre Abu Dhabi (LAD 2020.91). © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi. Photo: Ismail Noor / Seeing Things

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Today, we’re exploring the exhibition “Post-Impressionism. Beyond Appearances” with Aisha AlAhmadi, Curatorial Assistant at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

This extraordinary show brings together iconic masterpieces from the Post-Impressionist period, with exceptional loans from Musée d’Orsay, featuring works by visionary artists like Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and many others.

But Post-Impressionism is also the fascinating story of a new generation. Join us as we learn about a group of young artists who paved the way for some of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century by redefining the rules of art as we knew it.

The exhibition “Post-Impressionism. Beyond Appearances” is on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi from 16 October 2024 to 9 February 2025.

“On Show” is a podcast produced by the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Our warm thanks to Aisha AlAhmadi for her kind participation.

This podcast episode is also available in Arabic and French on the Louvre Abu Dhabi mobile app and our website: louvreabudhabi.ae

Executive production: Amine Kharchach, Marine Botton.
Recording: Amine Kharchach.
Post-production, music and mix: Making Waves.
Show Cover: Sarah AlNuaimi.

Artwork credits: Vincent Van Gogh, The Bedroom at Arles, 1889, Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, RF 1959 2. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

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