Laurent Le Bon, who is best known for curating the Pompidou’s epic Dada exhibition in 2005–6, was nominated as curator of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Pompidou’s first branch gallery, back in 2004. It’s due to open next year. Inside an exotic new building (think of a church crossed with a Chinese peasant hat) designed by Shigeru Ban, one of Japan’s leading architects, Le Bon aims at ‘provoking surprise, amazement and pleasure, and at stimulating and constantly renewing the public’s interest for contemporary art’.