Heidi Ellison
Talking Heads
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
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
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
Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo: Italian Drawings from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt & Ink Circus: Works on Paper by Gèr Boosten
Paris Celebrates the Art of Drawing “A Palace and a Row of Houses behind a Town Wall” (c. 1560/70?), by Giovanni Antonio Dosio (?). © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main The Fondation Custodia, itself the keeper of a treasure trove … Read More
Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque)
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
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
Joyce Hôtel
A corner of the lobby in this new Paris boutique hotel. Photo: Gilles Trillard To the regret of some nostalgic types, many of Paris’s fusty old low-star hotels in odd locations are being transformed into little havens of design in … Read More
Monumenta
Christian Boltanski’s Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais evokes the Holocaust and concentration camps. Photo: Didier Plowy/Monumenta/Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication It is always exciting to see how another artist will cope with what must be the … Read More
La Légende du Roi Arthur
Arthur fights the giant of Mont Saint Michel in the Miroir Historial of Vincent de Beauvais. BnF, Département des Manuscrits Only a short time remains to see the exhibition “The Legend of King Arthur” at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France-François-Mitterrand, … Read More
BLC Design Hotel
The BLC Design Hotel’s all-white decor is surprisingly comfy and restful. Since the just-opened BLC Design Hotel is located next to the Palais des Femmes, a refuge for women in distress in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, its designer, Carole Picard, chose … Read More