Heidi Ellison
Mon Frère se Marie
Dysfunctional Wedding Picture The always-popular subject of a wedding doesn’t deliver this time. In a week when posters for two “blockbuster” French films were plastered all over Paris – Laurent Tirard’s Molière and Alain Berbérian’s L’Île aux Trésors (based on … Read More
Murano Urban Resort
Design Well Done The all-white lobby contrasts with the colorful bar. Paris does old so well that it often hurts to see international design hitting the city, especially when so many classic cafés are being done over in insipid pseudo … Read More
Gallimard, 1911 – 2011: Un Siècle d’Edition
Publisher Gallimard’s headquarters on the Rue Sébastien Bottin in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Photo: Henri Manuel © Photo Archives Gallimard Lovers of French literature will not want to miss the exhibition “Gallimard, 1911 – 2011: Un Siècle d’Edition” at the Bibliothèque … Read More
Diep Festival
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
Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis bad
Schtereotypes Schtrike Again Philippe (Kad Merad, left) eats with his new Ch’ti friends. Comedian Dany Boon, who wrote and directed the film, is on the right. A new cult film has been born. Already, 12 million* spectators have seen Bienvenue … Read More
Les Bronzés 3
Low Culture Lives! Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) shows off her new boob job in Les Bronzés 3. The big event in France this past week has been the opening of Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la Vie. This is one of … Read More
Bob Dylan: L’Explosion Rock 61-66
The Early Years of the ’Electric Rimbaud’ Bob Dylan wearing a top hat in Philadelphia, 1964. Photo © Daniel Kramer The exhibition “Bob Dylan: The Rock Explosion 61-66” at the Cité de la Musique in Paris admirably fulfills a double … Read More
Great Black Music
Back to Black: A Global Retrospective “Great Black Music” is a great big term that could encompass an awful lot of music, and the exhibition of the same name at Paris’s Cité de la Musique does just that, going out … Read More
Mario Ceroli
POPE OF ARTE POVERA “Wave” (1992) by Mario Ceroli. The work of Mario Ceroli, known as the pope of Arte Povera in Italy, will be on show at the Galerie Tornabuoni (16, Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris; tel.: 01 53 53 … Read More
New Art Spaces
NEW ART SPACES AND EXHIBITIONS The Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Brut, with the new extension on the right. New art spaces: Just outside of Paris, in Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, an enormous space called The Storage (38 avenue du … Read More