NEW PARIS HOME FOR GIACOMETTI The Fondation Giacometti has announced that in 2026 Paris’s Gare des Invalides will become the new home for its permanent collection of the sculptor’s work, temporary exhibitions and an art school open to all. (ARTnews) … Read More
November 17 Calling all naked art lovers Special visits to the exhibition “Hyperréalisme: Ceci n’Est Pas un Corps” are scheduled for nudists only by the Fédération Française de Naturisme and the Association des Naturistes de Paris. Musée Maillol, Paris November … Read More
Fernande Olivier (1881-1966), one of the many serial women in Pablo Picasso’s long life, started her career as an artists’ model in Paris after running away from an abusive husband, whom she had been forced to marry after he raped … Read More
Every tourist and hard-up student in Paris has surely passed through the doors of the first Bouillon Chartier on Rue Faubourg Montmartre. Opened in 1896 in a former arms factory, the bouillon (a 19th-century workers’ restaurant specializing in soup and … Read More
Take a very thin script, set your film on a gorgeous tropical island, hire some good actors but let the main character do most of the talking, then stretch the movie out to two hours and 45 minutes. The result … Read More
Through November 12 Calder Unfolding The Almine Rech gallery presents a major exhibition of the work of Alexander Calder, including the mobile pictured above: “Untitled” (1963). Almine Rech, Paris November 13 French film with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents … Read More
Never heard of the artist Sam Szafran? You are not alone. Szafran (birth name: Berger) the subject of the exhibition “Sam Szafran: Obsessions of a Painter” at the Musée de l’Orangerie, was born in Paris in 1934, not an auspicious … Read More
Returning to Paris from a relaxing vacation in the South of France some years ago, a friend and I walked out of the Gare de Lyon and looked at each other balefully. We were not yet ready to return to … Read More
The subtitle of the National Library of France’s exhibition commemorating the 400th birthday of the great comic playwright Molière – “Le Jeu du Vrai et du Faux,” meaning “play on truth and falsehood” – not only captures very well a … Read More
