Heidi Ellison

Heidi Ellison, a long-time Paris resident, is a freelance journalist specializing in art, travel and literature. Her articles have been published in dozens of international publications, and she has contributed to a number of guidebooks on Paris and France.

Raoul et Jean Dufy, Complicité et Rupture

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Raoul Dufy’s “Fête Maritime et Visite Officielle au Havre” (c. 1925-26). © Adagp, Paris 2011. A nice complement to the show on the Caillebotte brothers at the Musée Jacquemart-André is an exhibition featuring another brother act: “Raoul et Jean Dufy, … Read More

Monumenta: Leviathan

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

The interior of Anish Kapoor’s “Leviathan” at the Grand Palais. (c. 1925-26). © Adagp, Paris 2011. Warning! This article is a spoiler. If you can, go see Anish Kapoor’s exhibition “Leviathan” at Paris’s Grand Palais before you read on. The … Read More

Safari in Nantes

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Mathieu Mercier’s “Cage à Oiseaux.” The French city of Nantes is one of the last destinations you would consider for a safari, unless you were on the hunt for works of animal-themed art, currently the … Favorite

Paris-Delhi-Bombay

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

From Dayanita Singh’s installation “House of Love” (2010). © Courtesy of the artist, Nature Morte, New Delhi and Firth Street Gallery, London   The stated goal of the exhibition “Paris-Delhi-Bombay” is to “generate exchanges and create lasting links between … … Read More

Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Two Expessions of German Expressionism “Landscape with White Wall” (1910) by Gabriele Münter. © Adagp, Paris 2011 The exhibition “Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920, Der Blaue Reiter vs Brücke” at the Pinacothèque de Paris, like many of the Favorite

La Triennale: Intense Proximity

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Three Times A Charm Annette Messager’s “Motion/Emotion” (2012) at La Triennale. One week after the reopening of the immense spaces of Paris’s cutting-edge contemporary art museum, the Palais de Tokyo, with the show “(Entre)Ouverture,” consisting Favorite