Heidi Ellison
Raoul et Jean Dufy, Complicité et Rupture
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
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
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
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
Beauté, Morale et Volupté dans l’Angleterre d’Oscar Wilde
A Feat of Aestheticism Frederic Leighton’s “Pavonia” (1858-59). © Christie’s Images The exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay with the ungainly title “Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde” is rather ungainly itself. Exhaustive Favorite
Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: The Adventure of the Steins
Paul Cézanne’s “La Femme de l’artiste dans un fauteuil (Madame Cézanne à l’Eventail)” (1878-88) © J.-P. Kuhn, ISEA Zurich. Picasso studied this painting at the Stein’s and noticed that one of the eyes was all black, a trick he borrowed … Read More
Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920
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
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
Beauté Animale: De Dürer à Jeff Koons
A Feast of Beasts in All-Animal Exhibition Théodore Géricault’s “Head of a Lioness (c. 1819). © Service Presse, Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais/Christian Jean If you love animals (or at least pictures of them) and you love art, it will … Read More
Monet: Son Musée
Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise” (1873), the painting whose name has gone down in history. © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris/Bridgeman Giraudon The exhibition “Monet: Son Musée” at the Musée Marmottan Monet is as intimate as the current mega-Monet retrospective at the Grand … Read More