Heidi Ellison
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
Paris Magnum
Paris Through the Magnum Viewfinder “2003.” © Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos Paris bursts into life in the exhibition “Paris Magnum” at the Hôtel de Ville, a kind of brief pictorial history of the city from 1930s to the present by some … Read More
Les Nuits Photographiques/Histoires
New Photography: The Light and Dark Sides “Soliloquy I,” inspired by Henry Wallis’s “The Death of Chatterton” (1856). © Sam Taylor-Johnson. Courtesy White Cube Gallery Do you ever get strong sense of déjà vu – or even intense boredom – … Read More
Beauvais & Gobelins
A Living Métier Tracks the Stages of Life “Ça Sent Bon” (1987), after Gérard Schlosser. Beauvais As works of art go, tapestries are not particularly sexy, but they have their own special allure and reward long contemplation, with their tactile … Read More
Birth of a Museum: Louvre Abu Dhabi
On the Road To Abu Dhabi Equestrian Portrait of Maharao Sheodan Singh of Alwar India, Rajasthan, Alwar (c. 1863). © Louvre Abu Dhabi/Agence photo F The new exhibition at the Louvre, “Birth of a Museum: Louvre Abu Dhabi” is a … Read More
Niki de Saint Phalle (2)
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