Marseille-Provence has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture in 2013. All year long, hundreds of cultural and artistic events will take place throughout the Provence region: in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Aubagne, Gardanne, Istres, La Ciotat, Martigues, Salon-de-Provence and, of course, Marseille.

On the menu: dance, music, visual arts, theatre, exhibitions, street art, literature, digital art, gastronomy and cinema.

Visitors will be invited to take part in events at museums, theatres and open-air venues in both urban areas and natural environments. Marseille-Provence 2013: an unmissable event.

Christelle MAUREAU / christelle@claudinecolin.com

For the first time, an exhibition will be devoted to the best masterpieces from Pharaonic Egypt during the ten centuries between the start of the Third Intermediate Period and the end of the Ptolomaic period (1070-30 BC). It will shed new light on this period by revealing its tormented history, with one crisis or invasion following another.

Christelle MAUREAU / christelle@claudinecolin.com

For the first time in history, the Chateau de Fontainebleau will exceptionally loan 170 works of arts, furniture and objects evoking the life of Napoléon III and Eugénie and their living space at Fontainebleau, highlighting the eclectic character of late XIXth century style, still underappreciated today. Many of these works, never before seen by the public, will be restored for the occasion and displayed at Fontainebleau following the Bordeaux exhibition.

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com

We know Rodin the sculptor, but do we know Rodin the draftman? This exhibition presents a spectacular collection of 300 drawings of his last thirty years when drawing was the artist’s predominant form of expression. This late period of Rodin’s career demonstrates the extraordinary tension between the naturalism of a drawing, capturing a gesture, a movement in all its immediacy, and the increasing independence of line and color in the artist’s work. Rodin’s freedom in drawing contributed to opening an immense space for the artists of the 20th century.

Following the exceptional donation by Severin Wunderman of 1525 works of Jean Cocteau and his entourage, after three years of construction works, the Jean Cocteau Museum - Severin Wunderman Collection, a major cultural project led by the town of Menton, opens this autumn. The building will be created by the international architect, Rudy Ricciotti.

The museum will become the world's first and most important public resource for the work of Jean Cocteau.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

The Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute is a new private initiative with the following goals: to organize cultural events, to follow an acquisitions program and support for the production works of art by young artists. Its inaugural exhibition «L’Etoffe du Temps», will present works by conceptual and figurative artists, such as Darren Almond, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Claude Lévêque, Roman Opalka, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Luca Pancrazi, Pablo Picasso, Martial Raysse, Xavier Veilhan, Huang Yong Ping et Chen Zhen, which play around the notion of time in contemporary art, taking Picasso’s Femme Assise (1949) as a starting point.

Ingrid Cadoret / ingrid@claudinecolin.com

Within the framework of an international cooperation agreement, the Rodin Museum is to deposit 62 Rodin plasters with the Palacete das Artes, Bahia, for a period of 3 years.