Light Cycles
A Scintillating Night Walk
“Light Cycles,” an often-breathtaking immersive night walk in the park, uses sound and light to evoke the beauty of the living world and takes full advantage of the varied features of La Villette, Paris’s largest park, designed by architect Bernard … Read More
Les Gens de Paris, 1926-1936
Who Are These People?
The exhibition “Les Gens de Paris, 1926-1936” at the Musée Carnavalet is not just a snapshot of the people of Paris in the years following World War I and during the Depression, it is a full-scale portrait. The show presents … Read More
Bridget Riley: Starting Point
Mentor and Mentee
If you arrive at the Musée d’Orsay to see the John Singer Sargent exhibition and find the line outside to be blocks long and the show jammed with art lovers, head instead for a sweet little show on the fifth … Read More
Pierre Cardin
Galactic Style
The designer Pierre Cardin (1922–2020) was famous for rocketing the fashion world into the space age in the 1960s. Now, his successor as head of the house, Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, is using outer space to symbolize the new galactic world he … Read More
Les Mondes de Colette
Outrageous, Immoral and Multitalented
Having visited the writer Colette’s childhood home in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye on a sun-kissed spring day last year with two good friends, I suppose it was payback time when I arrived alone at the exhibition “Les Mondes de Colette” at the Bibliothèque … Read More
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