Heidi Ellison
Katsinam Auction
Paris Update Art Notes AMERICAN MASKS IN PARIS The Zuni rattlesnake kachina, a Situlilu helmet mask, is made of leather, wood, turkey feathers, and wool. Estimate: €20,000-€25,000. Under strong protest from the Hopi community in the United States (read about … Read More
Brasilia
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
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
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)
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
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