title: Jean-Michel Othoniel
text: # Jean-Michel Othoniel
  
  Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 27 January 1964) is a French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of artistic media, including film, installation, photography and sculpture. In 2000 he designed a new entrance for the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre station of the Paris Métro.
  
  In 2006 he showed necklaces of large beads, made by master glass-blowers in Murano, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; they were hung on the façade of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which houses the collection.
  
  ## Public collections
  
  * Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  