June 11-Sept. 22

The Centre Pompidou in the heart of Paris is renowned for its bold glass and metal exterior and futuristic transparent tube escalators, but it¡¯s also famous for housing the Musee National d¡¯Art Moderne, which has one of the world¡¯s largest collections of modern and contemporary art.

Seventy works spanning 70 years of art history have been selected from the Centre Pompidou collection for this exhibition. Displayed as a timeline, the show features one work by a representative artist for each year from 1906 to 1977, the year of the building¡¯s completion. Among the paintings, sculpture and photography are pieces by Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Christo, with one of the highlights being Pablo Picasso¡¯s ¡°Muse,¡± which is being shown in Japan for the first time.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; 8-36 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo. Ueno Stn. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Fri. till 8 p.m.). ?1,600. Closed Mon. 03-5777-8600;