Heidi Ellison
Lumières: The Play of Brilliants & Takis: Champs Magnétiques
Let There Be Light . . . And Movement “Circular” by WHITEvoid and “Disco Disco” by Haberdashery. Photo: Emmanuel Donny The name of the show “Lumières: Play of Brilliants” might not make much sense in English, but this exhibition at … Read More
Les Tudors
The True Story BehindA Royal Soap Opera “Elizabeth I” (detail, c. 1600), by an English artist. © National Portrait Gallery, London, England The Musée du Luxembourg is holding another one of its enjoyably didactic biographical-historical exhibitions, similar to last year’s … Read More
Degas: An Impressionist Painter?
Degas Put to the Test: Is He or Isn’t He? “Portraits dans un Bureau (Nouvelle-Orléans)” (1873) © RMN-Grand Palais/Photos: Michèle Bellot and Madeleine Coursaget The exhibition’s title says it all: “Degas: An Impressionist Painter?” The Musée des Impressionismes Giverny has … Read More
Keys to a Passion
New Slant on Modern Art “Three Women (Le Grand Déjeuner)” (1921), by Fernand Léger. © Adagp, Paris 2015. Photo © 2015 Digital Image, the Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence The current exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, “Les Clefs … Read More
American Icons
Mod, Ab Ex, Mini and Pop “Cité” (1951), by Ellsworth Kelly. © Ellsworth Kelly © SFMOMA. Photo: Ben Blackwell A great follow-up to “Keys to a Passion” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, an original and illuminating exhibition on the art … Read More
Niki de Saint Phalle
Art That Saves, Art That Kills “Les Trois Grâces” (1995-2003). © 2014 Niki Charitable Art Foundation. Photo: Philippe Cousin It seems that everyone in the world is familiar with Niki de Saint Phalle’s “Nanas,” those monumental sculptures of curvaceous goddesses … Read More
Marcel Duchamp: La Peinture, Même
Painter, Jokester,Player, Thinker “Le Roi et la Reine Entourés de Nus Vites” (1912). © 2014 photo The Philadelphia Museum of Art/ArtResource/Scala, Florence © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris 2014 Marcel Duchamp was not interested in painting pretty pictures, but he was … Read More
Mois de la Photo
Shutterbugs of Every Stripe Fill Paris Galleries “El Masnou, Catalogne, Espagne” (1955), by Carlos Cruz-Diez. Photography lovers have reason to rejoice in November, the biannual Mois de la Photo in Paris, but they will be hard put to find time … Read More
Le Pérugin, Maître de Raphaël
Rehabilitating a Renaissance Painter Detail of Perugino’s “Mary Magdalen” (c. 1500-02). © Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città da Firenze The work of the painter Pietro Perugino (c. 1450-1523), … Read More
Haiti
A Survey of Haitian Art: Beyond the Stereotypes “Poste Ravine Pintade” (c. 1980), by Fritzner Lamour. Not surprisingly, death looms large as subject matter in the exhibition “Haiti: Two Centuries of Artistic Creation” at the Grand Palais in Paris, … Read More