Heidi Ellison
Maison Caillebotte
A Day Chez les Caillebottes
August approaches, and anyone who hasn’t left Paris may be looking for a way to get out of town to greener pastures, even if just for a day. While there are many options, there’s one place that has it all: … Read More
Le Coq & Fils Restaurant
The Chicken Across the Road
I had a vision for the restaurant that would be the subject of Paris Update’s last review of the summer season. It might be more expensive than the places we normally cover here, but we would be seated in a … Read More
François Boisrond: A Retrospective
Sponging Up Life
After seeing the François Boisrond retrospective at the Musée Paul Valéry in Sète, one has the impression that this French painter, little-known outside (or even in) his country, is like a sponge, soaking up everything he sees and urgently transposing … Read More
Polyphone: Polyphonies Visuelles et Sonores
Seeing Sound, Hearing Art
Once you get past the vendors of contraband cigarettes surrounding the exit from the Métro station Saint Denis-Porte de Paris and the string of fast food shops on Rue Gabriel Péri, the scene changes dramatically when you suddenly spy a large … Read More
L’Envie du Jour Restaurant
You Want It, You Got It
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED The new owner of L’Envie du Jour (for the last year and a half) confessed to us that they now change the menu every week instead of every day, as the restaurant’s name would seem … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
GREENING NOTRE DAME The new landscape design, by Bas Smets, for the environs of Notre Dame calls for more greenery, a cooling system for the parvis and an underground archaeological museum in a former parking lot. (The Guardian) THE SPIRIT … Read More
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori
Never Too Late to Out Talent
“There was no stopping her from painting,” says Amanda Gabori, daughter of painting powerhouse Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (Sally Gabori for short), currently the subject of a solo exhibition at Paris’s Fondation Cartier. Normally, there would be nothing surprising about an … Read More
Wadja Restaurant
Feel-Good Montparnasse Bistro
Wadja is a feel-good bistro par excellence. I have been going to this small restaurant – whose unusual name can apparently be traced back to the misspelled name of a Polish couple who once owned it – on and off … Read More
Peter von Kant
Rages and Tears
What’s the point of remaking an old film? Not much that I can see in such cases as Gus Van Sant’s word-for-word and shot-for-shot 1998 copy of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. That is not a problem, however, in the stylish new … Read More
Fondation GoodPlanet
A Haven for the Planet
I have nothing but good feelings for the GoodPlanet Foundation, which I stumbled across by accident after having lunch in the Bois de Boulogne recently. Tucked away in the midst of the forest, the complex, open to all for free, … Read More