Through this sentence uttered at the beginning of the film Matrix[1], heavily influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s thought – “The simulacrum is true” –, Morpheus invites Neo to become aware of the reality of a world he had only detected so far the faked representation, created from scratch by the Matrix.

The museum continues its series of presentations of the Collection Lambert, exploring, in a broad panorama of sensibilities, the singularity of this unique collection of artworks assembled with the discernment of a key figure in the art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

The Collection Lambert en Avignon has come a long way since it opened in 2000. Successive exhibitions have earned it widespread recognition at regional and national level in France as well as on the international scene. Over the past ten years, the museum has played host to a large number of artists of different ages and nationalities, many of…

Cy Twombly is a victim on two accounts: first, because a vulgar kiss was deliberately placed on one of his paintings that forms part of the collection at our museum in Avignon. Second,  because, as the artist said with irony, his name will now always be known in France, but only as that of a man who made a white canvas that was kissed by a woman…

To coincide with the sixtieth edition of the theatre festival, the Collection Lambert presents a summer show devoted to portraits and pictures of actors entitled ‘Figures de l’acteur,The actor's paradox’, an allusion to Diderot’s famous treatise on acting. This exhibition confirms the festival’s intention to anchor its programme in…

Echoing the sixtieth edition of the Theater Festival, the Collection Lambert in Avignon offers a summer exhibition on the portrait and image of the actor entitled "Figures of the actor. Le Paradoxe du comédien ", in reference to Diderot’s famous text on the art of acting in the theater. This exhibition reinforces the festival’s desire to…