Heidi Ellison
Simon Hantaï & Roy Lichtenstein
Shared Detachment inSeparate but Parallel Careers Lichtenstein’s “M-Maybe” (1965). © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein New York/ADAGP, Paris, 2013 The two major exhibitions currently showing at the Centre Pompidou are worth seeing together for the interesting comparison they provide between the … Read More
A Liminal Square: Portraits from Kiev
Paris Update Art Notes ON THE FRONTLINES IN KIEV From the exhibition “A Liminal Square.” Photo © Tatiana Grigorenko Paris-based American photographer Tatiana Grigorenko, whose family has roots in both Russia and Ukraine, found herself in Ukraine just after the … Read More
Histoires de Voir: Show and Tell
Taking Folk Traditions intoThe Rarefied Realm of Art “Untitled” (1966) by Francisco da Silva © Francisco da Silva. Photo © André Morin The exhibition “Histoires de Voir: Show and Tell” at the Fondation Cartier in Paris once again raises the … Read More
Canaletto-Guardi: Les Deux Maîtres de Venise
Postcards from theSerenissima Canaletto’s “Piazza San Marco, Looking East” (1723). © Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, MadridHave you ever felt that you had seen quite enough pretty paintings of Venice by Canaletto and Guardi and that they were all beginning to look alike? … Read More
Bohèmes
Centuries of Stereotypes Perpetrated by Artists ”L’Homme à la Pipe” (1846), a self-portrait by Gustave Courbet. © RMN/Agence Bulloz The Grand Palais opened another of its entertaining and informative themed exhibitions last week. “Bohemians” starts out with an investigation of … Read More
Hiroshige, l’Art du Voyage & Van Gogh, Rêves de Japon
Japan Imagined by Hiroshige and Van Gogh Van Gogh’s ”Oliveraie” (1889). © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands The Pinacothèque de Paris has just opened two complementary exhibitions, “Hiroshige, l’Art du Voyage” and “Van Gogh, Rêves de Japon.” The first … Read More
Edward Hopper
Only in America:Anomie on Parade Edward Hopper’s “Office at Night” (1940). © Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The big event of Paris’s fall art season, “Edward Hopper” at the Grand Palais, opened last week. Hopper’s most iconic paintings — notably “Nighthawks” — … Read More
Through an Open Window: Contemporary Art from the Rabo Art Collection
Reality Revised,For Better or Worse Yinka Shonibare: ”The Pursuit” (2007). Photo: Peter Cox, Eindhoven.© Rabo Art Collection Good news: Paris’s Institut Néerlandais (Dutch Institute), recently threatened with closure by the Dutch government, has been given a reprieve, which means it … Read More
The Twilight of the Pharoahs
Egyption Art Lives On asCivilization Declines The Berlin ”Green Head,” from the Ptolemaic Period (c. 350 B.C.E.) © SMB Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung. Photo: Sandra Steiß The new exhibition at Paris’s Musée Jacquemart-André, “Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d’œuvre des Dernières … Read More
Voyage à Nantes
Art and Culture Shake Up Provincial City Jean-Luc Courcoult’s ”La Maison dans la Loire.” Photo © Gino Maccarinelli In Nantes, it is not uncommon to run into Parisians who have fled the French capital for the pleasant city on the … Read More