Heidi Ellison
Arghaël
“RAW”: DRAWINGS BY ARGHAËL
Arghaël, a special effects artist and film editor and director who has taken up drawing in recent years, is a budding artist to watch. His drawings focus on the human nude, but there is nothing sexy about his twisted, tortured … Read More
Le Furet Tanrade
Advantageously Known for Gorgeous Goodies THIS SHOP IS NOW PERMANENTLY CLOSED I long ago gave up buying éclairs in Parisian bakeries – always the same choices, chocolate or coffee, with unconvincing pâte à choux that often veers too close to … Read More
La Cité de Refuge
Rebirth of Le Corbusier’s Salvation Army Building The Cité de Refuge. © FLC/ADAGP/Cyrille Weiner The residents of the Cité de Refuge in Paris count themselves lucky indeed. Not only do they live in a historic monument designed by one of … Read More
THATd’Or Museum Treasure Hunt
Paris Update Art Notes ART TREASURE TREKS Two-thirds of the Red team in front of “Eve after the Fall” (1869), by Eugène Delaplanche. A great way to get museum-averse kids (or adults) to take an art trek is to turn … Read More
Daido Moriyama & Fernell Franco
Transitory Spaces In Urban Chaos
Cities, seen through the eyes of two camera-wielding artists, Daido Moriyama and Fernell Franco, are the subject of new exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain. Two phrases written by María Wills Londoño about Franco for the catalog of … Read More
Persona: Strangely Human
Uncanny Perceptions: What's Human, What's Not?
We humans are so vain that we like to see representations of ourselves everywhere and attribute our own thoughts and emotions to other creatures. “Persona: Strangely Human,” a new exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly, explores this anthropomorphizing tendency … Read More
Venise sous Paris
Dressing UpIs the Best Revenge At Venise sous Paris. All photos on this page by Audrey O’Reilly. It was billed as the “party of the century”: a Venetian Carnival ball to be held at the end of January in a … Read More
Musée Rodin
Musée Rodin Redone: Less Bohemian, More Elegant
It is strangely quiet now in the newly renovated Rodin Museum, located in the 18th-century Hôtel Biron. The handsome Versailles parquet, now shored up to support the weight of the master’s heavy statues, makes nary a squeak (it used to … Read More
Ai Weiwei
AI WEIWEI AT PLAY
Ai Weiwei, the superstar Chinese artist and courageous activist, left China and moved to Berlin following the return last year of his passport, taken from him when he was jailed by the Chinese authorities for three months in 2011. His … Read More
Botanique
Upstairs, Downstairs: Gourmet Tasting and Tapas
A friend with a sharp eye spotted Botanique even before it opened, when its pretty little two-story yellow-brick building with a long row of windows was being renovated. A couple of months after the opening, she invited me to dinner upstairs in the “gastronomic” dining room, where a tasting menu is served in the evening.