Heidi Ellison
Le Bordeluche Restaurant
You Can Please Some of the People ...
When it comes to restaurants, diners are spoiled for choice in the Batignolles area of Paris. Le Bordeluche is one of the ones that stands out with its fresh market cuisine. The two friends I went there with found the atmosphere, decor … Read More
Changing France
Doggie Bags and a Culturally Correct Lottery
A friend who is a historian and has lived in Paris for over 35 years was discoursing the other day about how much France has changed since he’s been here. He predicted that the country’s status would be going up … Read More
Paris Update Events 06.06.18
June 15 Fellini revised Immersive theater company Cinémorphe will stage 2 1/8, its reinterpretation of Fellini’s 8½, at the legendary Paris nightclub Les Bains. Les Bains, Paris Through June 27 Dutch Sex Wave The sexual revolution of the 1970s as … Read More
Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist in Paris
American, Avant-Garde, Feminist Painter
I must admit I was a bit leery about seeing the Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André, fearing an overdose of saccharine paintings of babies and mothers, but I’m glad I went. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of … Read More
Shan Goût Restaurant
The Philosophical Cuisine of Shan
Last night, my friend Rachel and I were excited about the prospect of eating at Paris’s newest and biggest restaurant: the 1,000-seat La Felicità (located in the gigantic startup incubator Station F), the latest in the stable of the immensely … Read More
Bouquet of Tulips
Jeff Koons Offers Cadeau Empoisonné to Paris
It’s no news that not everyone appreciates the glossy work of art-world superstar Jeff Koons. Now the artist has caused an uproar in Paris by offering as a gift to the city a monumental sculpture, “Bouquet of Tulips” (with 11 tulips held in an … Read More
Paris Update Events 30.05.18
June 2-5 Urban jungle goes green The stony, overcrowded Place de la République will be transformed by the street artist Gad Weil into a garden oasis for a few days. If only it could last! Place de la République, Paris Through … Read More
Résonances: Eugénie Alméras–Jean-Jacques Henner
Beauty in the Banal
Those who haven’t yet visited the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, renovated in 2016, now have a good excuse to do so: an exhibition of works by artist-in-residence Eugénie Alméras. Henner (1829-1905) was a successful academic painter whose memory was kept alive … Read More
The Dude Restaurant
The Dude Abides
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED. Any question about why this restaurant is called The Dude (not to be confused with a bar called Le Dude, located on the Rue Saint Maur) is answered as soon as you enter and see … Read More
Paris Update Events 23.05.18
May 24 Proustiana Autograph letters and some manuscripts of Marcel Proust, from the collection of his great-niece, go on the auction block. Preview: May 18, 21, 22 and 23. Sotheby’s, Paris Through June 3 Directors’ Fortnight The features and short subjects … Read More