Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Covid in France Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is asking the national government to avoid weekend lockdowns in the capital, saying it would be “inhumane.” She also called for a faster rollout of the vaccine (France has received 8 million doses but … Read More
Galerie Perrotin
Strange Dreams
One of Paris’s leading contemporary art galleries, Perrotin, in the Marais, is currently holding two exhibitions of interest. The first, “Inner Songes,” features the work of Jens Fänge, a Swedish artist I was unfamiliar with but was more than happy … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Proust retrouvé The 75 missing pages from Marcel Proust‘s first draft of À la Recherche du Temp Perdu have been found and published. (The Guardian) Architecture in France Richard Rogers, who designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Renzo Piano, … Read More
Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique
Open Window on Art
Defying the pandemic-induced gloom in the gallery world, commercial spaces seem to be proliferating in Paris’s Marais, with two new ones recently opened, both by Italian gallerists. The latest addition, the tiny Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, couldn’t be more … Read More
A Flâneur’s Guide: Paris, the Left Bank
Left Bank Lore
Flâneurs who enjoyed last week’s article about the pleasures of wandering aimlessly through the streets of Paris will be happy to hear that there is a new book, A Flaneur’s Guide: Paris, the Left Bank, by the mysterious “richardb,” designed … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Cementing British-French relations Artists are invited to submit works to the I Love You, Moi Non Plus project to help mend bridges between the two countries after Brexit. (The Guardian) Good karma A French village that hid a Jewish man … Read More
Paris Update Events 10.02.2021
Note to readers: Paris, and the whole of France, currently have a 6pm curfew. Small shops and art galleries are open, but museums, theaters, cinemas, restaurants and cafés throughout the country remain closed. See below for online and a few … Read More
La Beauté Sera CONVULSIVE
Chance Encounters
A small exhibition in a gallery hidden away in a courtyard in the Marais is garnering high praise from some of the powers-that-be in the Paris art world. At the opening, the head curator of a major contemporary art museum … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
An island in Paris Contemporary architecture for an inward-looking apartment that cuts out the hustle-bustle of the city. (Dezeen) Help for starving students A restaurant in Paris is offering students with financial problems a full meal for only one euro. … Read More
Gallery Hopping
On the Move in Paris Galleries
In line with its mission – promoting contemporary drawing and raising awareness of its importance in all artistic fields – the nonprofit Drawing Lab gallery has teamed up with the Cinémathèque Française to put on the exhibition “Tout un Film!,” … Read More