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For this latest attempt by the museum to modernize its traditionally artist-exclusive calendar, Boulez will participate in 11 concerts, six filmed concerts, and lectures, and will curate an exhibition, according to Le Monde. Other nonartist curators to have received similar shows have included Robert Badinter, a prominent French politician and political thinker, in 2005, and Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison in 2006.

Boulez's curated exhibition, “Work: Fragment,” will combine 70 works by such artists as Cézanne, Degas, Delacroix, Kandinsky, Klee, Giacometti, and Picasso alongside scores from Wagner, Bartók, and Varese and works by writers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

“Modernism is based on the fragment,” Boulez told AFP while pointing to a 1952 nude sketch by De Kooning, “while previously this would have been considered a preparatory draft.”

In his lectures, Boulez will detail his past accomplishments as winner of the 2002 Gould Prize, former director of the New York Philharmonic, and current Conductor Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also, on the schedule: an anticipated debate with architect Jean Nouvel, winner of this year's Pritzker architecture prize, on the new Paris Philharmonic Hall, set to be completed in 2012.