OPENING OF THE GAITE LYRIQUE {youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}iVIcJZ4ah9g{/youtube} Scenes from the opening of the Gaîté Lyrique, Paris’s new “digital culture” center. The long-awaited Gaîté Lyrique, Paris’s new digital culture center, offers digital art exhibitions, free access to video games and … Read More
‘GRAFFCITY’ “Steel Reflecting Pool,” by Logan Hicks, in pencil and aerosol paint on board, on show in “Graffcity,” an exhibition of major street artists at the Opera Gallery through Feb. 25. Favorite
WEAVING LINES A view of the Galerie Laurent Mueller in Paris. The spotlight is on drawing in Paris, with the Drawing Now art fair just finished and the Salon du Dessin and Chic Dessin (see “Events” below) just beginning. Paris … Read More
MUSEUMS FREE FOR SOME It’s official: the permanent collections of French national museums and monuments – including Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Versailles and Mont-Saint-Michel, for example – will no longer charge admission to European residents under the age of 26 or … Read More
TEMPLE OF ART CIVILIZED True to a Parisian tradition of appropriating and taming wildcat actions taken by its citizens (the weekly rollerblade outing is a good example – what started as an illegal run through Paris streets was taken over … Read More
MCMONA Is this the end of civilization as we know it? The privately owned food court in the Carrousel du Louvre, the underground shopping mall next to the museum, plans to open a McDonald’s outlet in December. Don’t forget, however, … Read More
PRELIMINARIES For its inauguration, Galerie Slott (12, rue du Château Landon, 75010 Paris; tel.: 01 40 36 07 18), a new, off-the-beaten-track design gallery founded by Paola Bjaringer, is holding an exhibition called “Préliminaires” (through Feb. 12), a lighthearted yet … Read More
THIRTY YEARS OF FRENCH DESIGN View of the VIA exhibition. © Hervé Véronèse, Centre Pompidou, 2009 Less than two weeks left to see an entertaining design show at the Centre Pompidou, “VIA Design 3.0” (through Feb. 1; free admission), celebrating … Read More
LAON CATHEDRAL UP CLOSE This tiny exhibition in the upper reaches of the superb Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (1 Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris) is an absolute must, if only for what is says about the redemptive power … Read More
WORK LESS, EARN MORE French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand struck a blow against censorship last week when he ordered Paris’s Ecole des Beaux Arts to reinstall a set of banners created by artist Ko Siu Lan that it had … Read More
