Mr. Hirschhorn, a Paris-based artist born in Switzerland in 1957, studied to be a graphic designer but then decided that the discipline allowed less political expression than he had expected.

He will travel back and forth between Paris and Minneapolis while organizing a traveling retrospective of Huang Yong Ping, the Chinese-born, Paris-based conceptual artist.

Is French culture suffering what Markus Hansen, a young Paris-based German artist, calls "death by theory?"

Impressionism began in France in the second half of the 19th century, when Paris-based artist publicly showed their art.

The actors walk on and off a set that resembles an art installation, designed by the Paris-based artists Lucy and Jorge Orta.

Exhibits include documents relating to the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1900) and works by Paris-based Jewish artists Chagall, Modigliani and Soutine.

The Paris-based artist has since traveled the world investigating the impact on Jewish identity as Jews adopted new countries, recreating Judaism and adapting the culture as they went.

The museum has found a way of displaying some works by Paris-based artists by recalling the "Sundays in Boulogne" spent at Kahnweiler's home.

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists.

Suzanne is a Paris-based, award-winning artist and philosopher, Béatrice an international soprano based in Philadelphia.