Claudia Barbieri
David Hockney: Retrospective
Ode to Joy: Hockney at 80
British artist David Hockney turned 80 this month but is still as productive and eclectic as ever, as evidenced by a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris through October 23. Following up on the hugely successful Hockney show this … Read More
Geometries Amoureuses/Jean-Michel Othoniel
Artist Mines the Mineral World
The French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, who created the baubles for the jewel-like Palais Royal Métro entrance in Paris and who was the first artist chosen in over 300 years to create a new permanent sculptural fountain in the gardens of … Read More
Three Shows to See in the French Provinces this Summer
Art in Unexpected Places
At the Villa Datris, a foundation for contemporary sculpture in picturesque L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, in the Vaucluse region of Provence, this year’s summer exhibition explores nature in its multitude of facets – peaceful, tumultuous, marvellous and disquieting, ranging from the Garden of … Read More
Musée Camille Claudel & Maison Renoir
At Home with Claudel and Renoir
They were both artists who lived and worked in fin-de-siècle Paris. Both showed at the ground-breaking 1904 Salon d’Automne, cradle of almost every major art movement of the early 20th century. Though they may not have known one another, they … Read More
Who Knows Tomorrow
A Life Transformed
In December 2002, fashionista and design writer Lisa Lovatt-Smith threw over a high-flying career at Vogue magazine and devoted herself to saving abused children in African orphanages. She has now turned her sometimes life-threatening adventures into a dramatic and often … Read More
Perrin
Luxury Leathers Perrin, a French leather-goods company that has been producing luxury gloves and handbags since 1893, has just opened a Paris flagship store in the high-fashion, high-octane Golden Triangle, at 3 rue d’Alger, a stone’s throw from the iconic … Read More
Le Salon de George Sand
At Home with George … And Frédéric, Franz, Eugène … George Sand’s House in Nohant. © Etienne Revault-CMN In 1821, a 17-year-old girl named Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, who would one day become George Sand, inherited a small manor house, the Manoir … Read More
Fondation Claude Monet Giverny
Furnishing Giverny for Its Former Residents “In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading” (1887), by Claude Monet. As is by now well-known, the artist Claude Monet and his family moved into a house … Read More
Cook Indian
Curry in a kit Dasary Shreevalli, a Paris-based international marketing consultant from Bangalore, recently launched a range of simple Indian cooking kits, under the “Cook Indian” label, to introduce the flavors of the subcontinent to novice chefs. Each kit contains … Read More
Linda McCartney: Retrospective 1965-1997
Paris Update Art Notes HOMAGE TO ANOTHER MCCARTNEY “Martha My Dear, London, 1968.” © 1968 Paul McCartney/Photographer: Linda McCartney Linda McCartney may be best known for forming the post-Beatles band Wings with her husband, Paul McCartney, but before she hitched … Read More