Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Portrait penury In normal times, the Place du Tertre in Montmartre is clogged with tourists, but these are not normal times, and the square’s street artists are desperate for business. (The Guardian) Dining out Some restaurants in France are opening … Read More
Galleria Continua
Anarchic Art Space
Paris has a new art gallery, Galleria Continua, the likes of which it has never before seen, and Parisians are happily queuing up to get in. Forget about the forbiddingly austere and elegant white-cube gallery that is the norm here … Read More
Call My Agent, Season 4
Too Parisian? Impossible!
After a seemingly endless wait, it feels an almost indecent joy to watch the fourth – and final – season of the French series Call My Agent (Dix Pour Cent) on Netflix. Not only do our favorite characters from the … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Le Tan collection The art collection of the great French illustrator Pierre Le Tan (1950-2019) and a number of his own drawings will be sold at Sotheby’s in March, with estimates ranging from €100 to €50,000. (The Art Newspaper) (WWD) … Read More
The Paris Update Restaurant Awards 2021
Last Year's Best 10 Restaurants
We didn’t get to test many restaurants last year, what with all the lockdowns and restaurant closures, but we nevertheless managed to eat at 10 great places that we can’t wait to return to once this pandemic madness is over. … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
French cuisine Michelin announced its annual French restaurant awards this week and shocked the world by giving a vegan restaurant named ONA (for “Origine Non Animale”) in the town of Ares one star – this in a country where bacon … Read More
David Hockney: Ma Normandie
Four Seasons in France
On a gloomy January morning in Covid-ridden Paris when nothing seemed to be going right, my spirits suddenly lifted when I walked into the Galerie Lelong in the eighth arrondissement and got an eyeful of David Hockney’s recent paintings, made … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Beautifying Paris The Avenue des Champs-Élysées (Elysian Fields) will look far more heavenly once Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plans to turn it into a garden thoroughfare go through. (The Guardian) Out, damned plastic! Strict new rules to be implemented this … Read More
Paris Update Events 06.01.2021
Note to readers: Paris has currently has an 8pm curfew, while a number of départements in eastern France that have been hard-hit by Covid-19 now shut down at 6pm. Shops and art galleries are open, but museums, theaters, cinemas, restaurants … Read More
Jim Dine: A Day Longer
Like the Wind
Distressingly for art lovers, the reopening of museums in France has been postponed from December 15 to January 7, but the good news is that small art galleries are open. One exhibition well worth seeing is “A Day Longer,” a … Read More