THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED When I first ate at Zébulon soon after it opened in 2015, I loved the food by Yannick Lahopgnou, the warm welcome from co-owner Thomas Chaput and the chic but comfortable decor, complete with baby … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED, REPLACED BY CODA. “Worth a detour,” the expression made famous by the Michelin Guides, definitely applies to the new restaurant Détour, located in Paris’s ninth arrondissement. What is really cool, however, is that the word … Read More
On the face of it, André Derain (1880-1954), Balthus (1908-2001) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) would seem to have little in common, but it turns out that the three artists were lifelong friends, beginning around 1933, and had a not-insubstantial influence on each other’s work. The … Read More
While some of the works in the exhibition “Grand Trouble” (“Big Trouble”) at the Halle Saint Pierre are indeed troubling (I am thinking, for example, of Olivier Estoppey’s frightening concrete sculptures of baying wolves or Marc Prudent’s heartrending photos of people sleeping … Read More
After seeing “From Zurbarán to Rothko: The Alicia Koplowitz Collection” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, I sat down to read about the collection of Spanish billionairess Alicia Koplowitz and quickly became fascinated with her life, fittingly described by a French magazine as … Read More
They were both artists who lived and worked in fin-de-siècle Paris. Both showed at the ground-breaking 1904 Salon d’Automne, cradle of almost every major art movement of the early 20th century. Though they may not have known one another, they … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED One might be forgiven for thinking that a restaurant with the name Albion serves British food, but one would be wrong. True, the chef is British, but he was off on a six-month globetrot when … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED Le Bel Ordinaire is a rarity in France: a restaurant/shop funded by crowdsourcing. A goodly amount must have been raised to finance this handsome restaurant/fine grocery with a long wooden table running down the center … Read More
The glorious millennium of the Venetian Republic came to a definitive end in 1797 with Napoleon’s invasion and the forced abdication of the doge. Even in its final days during the 18th century, however, the city, flush after several decades of … Read More
The Walker Evans (1903-75) retrospective that just opened at the Centre Pompidou came as something of a revelation to me. The American photographer’s Depression-era portraits of sharecroppers in Alabama are so famous that, at least for me, they eclipsed his … Read More
