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American Friends of the Centre Pompidou The American Friends of the Centre Pompidou is an Americanbased notforprofit dedicated to supporting the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Friends mission is to support the Centre Pompidou through raising funds to enable acquisitions exhibitions conservation and other work encouraging artwork donations and loaning and gifting works of art to enhance its collection. The Friends foster connoisseurship and a dynamic exchange of ideas through special events exhibitions and trips for art lovers that offer unprecedented access to artists private collections modern and contemporary architectural treasures and worldclass museums in the company of Centre Pompidou curators of modern and contemporary art architecture and design. Established in 1977 the Foundation was led for twenty years by Dominique de Menil whose forwardthinking leadership continued until her death in 1997.