David Hockney: Ma Normandie
Four Seasons in France
On a gloomy January morning in Covid-ridden Paris when nothing seemed to be going right, my spirits suddenly lifted when I walked into the Galerie Lelong in the eighth arrondissement and got an eyeful of David Hockney’s recent paintings, made … Read More
Le Dernier Enfant
Lurching Toward Melodrama
Philippe Besson’s new novel, Le Dernier Enfant, his 20th, bears many of the hallmarks of his most successful previous works. A few examples: His prose is concise and focuses on the inner thoughts of a few central characters. He chooses … Read More
Jim Dine: A Day Longer
Like the Wind
Distressingly for art lovers, the reopening of museums in France has been postponed from December 15 to January 7, but the good news is that small art galleries are open. One exhibition well worth seeing is “A Day Longer,” a … Read More
Hubert Duprat
Studio-Grown Art
The better-known names of photographer Sarah Moon and painter Victor Brauner are the big attention-getters at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris right now, but upstairs is a show (which had only a few visitors the day I was there, … Read More
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Depths of the Unknown
Note to readers: You may choose to read this analysis of Les Fleurs du Mal here or listen to it on the audio file at the end of the article. The year 1857 was an important one in the French literary … Read More
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