The success of “Nice 2013. A Summer for Matisse,” the museums’ programming by the City for the summer of 2015 will be dedicated to the Promenade des Anglais and the evocation of the remarkable resonance of this prominent site of Nice’s urbanism on the imagination and sensitivity of writers, musicians, and filmmakers.
This choice is not unrelated to the initiative undertaken by the Mayor for the candidacy of the Promenade des Anglais to be listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, once again entrusting Jean-Jacques Aillagon with the general commissioner of the cultural event.
For Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice: “In 2015, a new international exhibition will be presented in all the city’s museums. With this new exhibition, we prove once again that Nice is a city of culture in its own right.”
“This summer cultural event will be dedicated, this time, to the Promenade des Anglais. The history of tourism, beachside urbanism and architecture, and the history of Nice have enabled us to better understand what could constitute the ‘outstanding universal value’ of Nice’s urbanism, determined so originally at the dawn of the 18th and 19th centuries by a new form of leisure: winter climatic tourism. This is how a truly new city was born alongside the old town,” expressed Jean-Jacques Aillagon.
Here are the titles of the thematic exhibitions and venues which we will revisit at the appropriate time.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (at the Ponchettes Gallery): From the Shore to the Promenade. A Natural History
ARCHEOLOGY MUSEUM OF NICE: From East to West, 20 Centuries of Promenade on the Nice Territory
MASSENA MUSEUM: The Promenade or the Invention of a City
PALAIS LASCARIS: Musical Walks 1924-1926
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: Raoul Dufy, the Promenade as a Motif
MUSEUM OF NAÏVE ART: The Promenade, Plain and Simple …
MATISSE MUSEUM: Henri Matisse. Interior Walks
MAMAC: The ‘Prom’ as a Workshop
THEATRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE: Martin Parr, an Englishman in Nice
MARINE GALLERY: The Graduates of Villa Arson on the Promenade
NATIONAL SPORTS MUSEUM: In Sports Mode… on the Promenade des Anglais
NATIONAL MARC CHAGALL MUSEUM: Nice, Sun, Flowers
VILLA ARSON: Marie Losier
