Centre Pompidou surveys a decade of collecting

The Centre Pompidou has organised an exhibition of 100 images acquired over the past ten years for the 20th edition of Paris Photo. The show in the Grand Palais will present works by 40 artists, from Richard Avedon to Jeff Wall, through Brassa, Andreas Gursky, Ren Magritte, August Sander and Wolfgang Tillmans. Called The Pencil of Culture, a reference to William Henry Fox Talbots The Pencil of Nature (1844-46), the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue on the recent history of the colle