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.

Brasilia

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Paris Update Art Notes THE MAKING OF BRASILIA Construction of the Ministries Esplanade in Brasilia, 1958. Photo by Marcel Gautherot. Collection de l’Institut Moreira Salles, Brésil The exhibition “Brasilia” at the Paris headquarters of the French Communist Party (PCF; 2, … Read More

Tuck Shop

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Paris Update Flash News MEAT-FREE HOME COOKING Long gone are the days when it was almost impossible to get a decent vegetarian meal in a Paris restaurant. Now almost all of them offer at least one non-fish veggie option, and … Read More

Domaine de Chamarande

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Paris Update Art Notes THE PERFECT ESCAPE The Château de Chamarande and a London plane tree that is approaching its 150th birthday. The Domaine de Chamarande is a rare place: a handsome 17th-century château that is easily accessible from Paris, … Read More

La Cité de Refuge (2)

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

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

Talking Heads

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Charlotte Clamens as Miss Fozzard. Photo: Brigitte Enguerand I went to the Théâtre du Rond Point with low expectations the other evening to see a French production of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. How could it live up to the brilliant … Read More

Un Artiste à la Table

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Note: Un Artiste à la Table no longer exists. Guests getting to know each other before dinner at Un Artiste à la Table. After having lived in various places around the world, most recently Thailand, Ana Diaz-Cano, a native of … Read More

Violette & Léonie

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

  This shop is now closed. See comment below for more information. Violette & Léonie must be the trendiest and best-organized consignment shop (dépôt-vente) in Paris. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you walk through the door of this … Read More

Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque)

February 2, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Film

The French obsession with singer/songwriter/ chain-smoking drunk/provocateur-par-excellence Serge Gainsbourg is unending nearly 20 years after his death. Now a comic-book artist and screenwriter named Joann Sfar has written and directed Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque), a love poem to Gainsbourg that manages … Read More

Paris Inondé 1910

January 26, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Piggyback ride on Paris’s Rue Bonaparte during the Great Flood of 1910. © World’s Graphic Press / Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger-Viollet Why does the Great Flood of 1910 loom so large in the imagination of … Read More