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"The Wide World of Andy Warhol":"All my portraits have to be the same size," Andy Warhol once said, "so they'll all fit together and make one big painting called "Portraits of Society." That's a good idea, isn't it?" The Grand Palais gives viewers an ample opportunity to answer that question. It's an appropriately grand setting for this very large retrospective of Warhol's portraiture. It's also an appropriate venue in being slightly kitschy and ersatz. No artist, past or present, has ever thrilled to celebrity quite as much - or as memorably - as Warhol did. Fame was the name of his game - both his own fame, which he so zealously cultivated, and that of his subjects, many of whom he cultivated, too, in person no less than on canvas. On display one finds some very celebrated subjects, indeed: Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mao Zedong, David Hockney. The exhibition includes some 100 Warhol paintings. There are nearly 150 works in all. Avenue Winston-Churchill, 011-33-1-44-13-17-17, www.grandpalais.fr.
