In February 1972, US President Richard Nixon travelled to China to meet Mao Zedong. Against the electric backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, this rapprochement marked a turning point in Sino-American relations. A major figure in contemporary music, John Adams used this event as the subject of his first opera. A political and human drama, Nixon in China deals with the political thaw fostered by the 'ping-pong diplomacy' that resulted from the invitation of American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts a year before their president's trip. A heady score, where the pulsations and repetitions typical of musical minimalism intermingle with melodic lines of great lyricism. 

Opera: Nixon in China

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With nearly 200 works - sculptures, engravings, drawings and paintings - the exhibition chronologically retraces Germaine Richier's artistic trajectory and sheds light on the major themes that nourish her sculptural practice (the human, the animal, myths, etc.). Trained in the tradition of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, Germaine Richier asserted herself as profoundly original and radical in little more than 25 years, from the 1930s to her early death in 1959: a link between Rodin and the first César in the history of modern sculpture.

With Ariane Coulondre, in charge of research at the Centre Pompidou and curator of the exhibition 

Germaine Richier