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| Paris's Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai | Paris's Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai |
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| The Pompidou Centre in Paris, which houses the world’s second biggest collection of modern art, is close to signing a deal for a franchise gallery in Shanghai. | The Pompidou Centre in Paris, which houses the world’s second biggest collection of modern art, is close to signing a deal for a franchise gallery in Shanghai. |
| It will show around 20 exhibitions over five years in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built in the cultural district of China’s commercial capital by British architect David Chipperfield. | It will show around 20 exhibitions over five years in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built in the cultural district of China’s commercial capital by British architect David Chipperfield. |
| The Paris gallery, which also has plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with the Chinese authorities. | The Paris gallery, which also has plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with the Chinese authorities. |
| Last year it staged its first show in China called Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou 1906-77 featuring work by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and other big names at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. | Last year it staged its first show in China called Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou 1906-77 featuring work by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and other big names at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. |
| The gallery said it had signed a protocol with the publicly-owned West Bund Group for a renewable five-year deal to stage exhibitions in the new museum from 2019. | The gallery said it had signed a protocol with the publicly-owned West Bund Group for a renewable five-year deal to stage exhibitions in the new museum from 2019. |
| The company has been turning part of the formerly industrial Xuhui district of the city into a 11km (seven mile) “cultural corridor” along the Huangpu River. | The company has been turning part of the formerly industrial Xuhui district of the city into a 11km (seven mile) “cultural corridor” along the Huangpu River. |
| The Pompidou hailed the deal as “the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China and said it would give “an important place to contemporary Chinese art” in the new gallery. | The Pompidou hailed the deal as “the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China and said it would give “an important place to contemporary Chinese art” in the new gallery. |
| It said its new franchise would be called the Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund). | It said its new franchise would be called the Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund). |
| The West Bund Museum is due to be completed at the end of 2018. It will be a major boost to the area’s attractions which already include the private Long Museum West Bund, the Yuz Museum and the Shanghai Centre of Photography. | The West Bund Museum is due to be completed at the end of 2018. It will be a major boost to the area’s attractions which already include the private Long Museum West Bund, the Yuz Museum and the Shanghai Centre of Photography. |
| The Pompidou Centre – which also houses a library and cinemas – was an architectural sensation when it first opened in Paris in 1977. | The Pompidou Centre – which also houses a library and cinemas – was an architectural sensation when it first opened in Paris in 1977. |
| Its collection of more than 120,000 artworks is regarded as the second most important in the world after the Museum of Modern Art in New York. | Its collection of more than 120,000 artworks is regarded as the second most important in the world after the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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