Mickalene Thomas's "All About Love" Exhibit at Paris's Grand Palais

Mickalene Thomas: "All About Love" Exhibit

• 🖼️ Mickalene Thomas is celebrated with a major solo exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais, making her the first African-American artist to receive this honor.
• 🎨 The exhibition, titled "All About Love," spans 20 years of her multidisciplinary art, incorporating photography, collage, paint, and her signature use of rhinestones and glitter.
• ✊ Thomas uses love as a force for liberation and joy, and as a means of reclaiming space in art history for Black women.
• 👑 Her work focuses on the powerful representation and self-affirmation of Black people, primarily Black women, reinterpreting art history's traditional canons that have often excluded them.
• 💥 The exhibit features reinterpretations of classical French paintings, transforming passive female figures into empowered women in control of their own narratives.
• 📍 The "All About Love" exhibition is on display at the Grand Palais until April 2026.

A Royal Christmas at Versailles

• 👑 The Palace of Versailles is hosting a special Christmas event called "The King's Tour," imagining the holidays during the court of King Louis XIV.
• 🎭 The experience includes actors in period costumes, dancers, musicians, and even a Baroque Santa Claus, offering a glimpse into a royal Christmas celebration.
• 🗓️ This festive event is available for visitors to experience until January 3rd.