This exhibition sees the art historian Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac digging deep into the history of Les Choses—things—starting in antiquity and going all the way to the 20th century. The show is inspired by the Polish art historian Charles Sterling, who in 1952 mounted a still-life show of the same reach: from antiquity to the present day. No one since then, until now, has attempted such magnitude. Bertrand-Dorléac’s criterion for what “things” to include? “Everything that renewed our perspectives, as much as in ancient and contemporary art history, as in literature, poetry, philosophy, archaeology, botany or ecology.” —Clara Molot