Elsewhere in Arles, at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, is Van Gogh and the Stars, on show until 25 August. The Musée d’Orsay has lent the artist’s masterpiece, Starry Night, painted in Arles in September 1888, for a homecoming exhibition that juxtaposes Van Gogh’s ‘cosmic poem’ with the work of artists influenced by it.
In Marseille, Mucem J4’s summer show, Naturist paradises (until 31 December), investigates why and how France has become the world’s primary tourist destination for naturists. Around 600 works explore the reasons for the phenomenon, such as the country’s temperate climate and the rise in holistic practices including yoga, veganism and meditation across France.
Also on show (until 23 September) is Shared passions: From Basquiat to Edith Piaf, The Lambert Collection at the Mucem. The show brings together artists as diverse as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sol LeWitt, Marcel Broodthaers, Cy Twombly, Kiki Smith, Nan Goldin and Louise Lawler and places their work in dialogue with ethnographic art and objects from Provençal culture, such as ex-votos and 19th-century bird traps used by the people of the Camargue delta.
