Pompidou?

Pompidou, or Pomidon't, the choice is yours...basically a good modern art fest.

here's what'll be on there....

Le Mouvement des Images

Centre Pompidou, piazza Beaubourg, 75004 (+33 (0)1 44 78 12 33/www.centrepompidou.fr). Métro Hôtel de Ville or RER Châtelet-Les Halles. Mon, Wed-Sun 11am-9pm. €10 . MC, V. Date Until Jan 29.

The latest re-hang of the Centre Pompidou collection is a fascinating, if debateable, re-reading of modern art from the early 20th century to today, as a cinematic art form. Drawing on the wealth of works in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, including its unrivalled collection of artists' and experimental films, it proposes that fine art has been influenced by the moving image, and its processes of work in series, editing, repetition, projection, narrative and performance, and that, in parallel, in the digital age, film has increasingly moved out of the cinema and into the exhibition hall. Amid the fractured images of a Cubist painting by Braque, a light installation by Mona Hatoum, videos by Nan Goldin and Steve McQueen, there's also a chance to discover Len Lye's incredible film of the Chrysler factory or to see Arp's sculpture in a new light.

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Morphosis

Centre Pompidou, 75004 (+33 (0)1 44 78 12 33/www.centrepompidou.fr). Métro Hôtel de Ville or RER Châtelet-Les Halles. 11am-9pm Mon, Wed-Sun. €10 (includes museum and other exhibitions). MC, V. Date Until July 17.

Running parallel to the big show, 'Los Angeles 1955-1985', this exhibition puts LA architectural practice, Morphosis, founded by Thom Mayne in 1972 under the looking-glass, literally. The scenography - a glass ramp beneath which you look down on architectural models, plans and video screens showing an interview with Mayne, and images of some of the finished projects - is somewhat vertigo-inducing, but Morphosis's prognosis of the urban context and deconstructive fragmented style makes you want to check out the real thing.