Saleté
Outcast in Austria Florian Carove plays the Iraqi immigrant Sad. Photo: © Michal Batory At a time when the issue of illegal immigrants is at the top of the political agenda, Saleté, a theatrical adaptation of the novel Dreck by … Read More
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Goumard
Safe Bet During my first year at college in London – the place that William Cobbett called “The Great Wen” (a boil, not an apple) – I dated the daughter of a rather forbidding Scottish customs and excise officer. On … Read More
David LaChapelle
Irreality Show “Statue” from the “Deluge” series (2007). © David LaChapelle What happens when Jeff Koons meets Andy Warhol meets Pierre et Gilles? You get David LaChapelle. Call him camp, kitsch and commercial all you like, but his giant photographic … Read More
Ma Femme
Funny Bloody Funny
I knew I was in for something different when I picked up the flyer for this production from a café table. It was shouting out for a review – something to do with the parental warning (not recommended for children … Read More
Le Cigale Récamier
Busy, Busy, Busy The rack of lamb was succulent and perfectly cooked. Things got off to a slightly difficult start at Le Cigale Récamier, when the meeter-and-greeter (!) bluntly told me that I was an hour late for my reservation … Read More
20e/Première
Gestalt Circus Third-year circus students keep their heads down. Photo © Philippe Cibille Working with theater director Georges Lavaudant, former director of the Théâtre de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, a dozen 20-something third-year students at the Centre … Read More
Donations Daniel Cordier: Les Désordres du Plaisir
What Is Art? Nineteenth-century sugar silos from Southern Kerala, India. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian, Centre Pompidou After a recent visit to the Barnes Foundation and the nearby home of a private collector just outside Philadelphia, both of which demonstrated just how … Read More
L’Ordonnance
Better than Happy Pills Down-to-earth food in a warm, friendly venue. If you have euros in your pocket that haven’t been exchanged from another currency (i.e., the dollar or sterling), the best place to be right now for eating is … Read More
Chez Léon
Chipped-Formica Heaven The pot au feu was on its last legs. Paris has more restaurants named Chez Léon than you can shake a stick at, but one of them stands out from the crowd. Not for any reasons of culinary … Read More
Albert Marquet: Itinéraires Maritimes
Paris by the Sea “Sailboats in Sète” (1924). © Adagp, Paris 2008 What better way to spend a couple of hours on a winter day in Paris than looking at pretty pictures of the sea at the Musée National de … Read More