The Château de Chambord is probably the most extraordinary of the Loire Valley châteaux, its massive structure and dozens of mismatched rooftop turrets and chimneys rising dramatically from its flat setting. There has never been much to see inside, however, … Read More
After the fall of Napoleon and his empire in 1815, 19th-century France lived through a series of monarchical restorations and new revolutions, with Paris always at the center of events. The major exhibition “Romantic Paris” at the Petit Palais looks at what … Read More
If you want to avoid the crowds next time you go to Versailles, skip the château itself and go to the Domaine du Grand Trianon to see the exhibition “Versailles: Visible/Invisible,” a continuation of the now-annual incursion of contemporary art … Read More
I was as fascinated by the exhibition “Prehistory: A Modern Enigma” at the Centre Pompidou as the artists featured in it were fascinated by prehistoric art. The premise of the show is that the many new scientific discoveries made during … Read More
![Every Stone Should Cry & [Apokatastasis] Interior Garden](https://www.parisupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ParisUpdate-Musee-Chasse-Nature-Mercier-tires.jpg "Every Stone Should Cry & [Apokatastasis] Interior Garden")
Paris’s Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is a wonderful place in its own right, with its amazing collections of taxidermied animals, firearms (whoever would have thought that guns could be so beautiful?), paintings, objects and furniture, … Read More
If you have been mooning around wondering why no one has ever staged an exhibition about that big cheese ball in the sky, your worries are over. The Grand Palais is holding a show called “The Moon: Real and Imaginary … Read More
Foodwise, chef Bertrand Grébaut‘s restaurant Septime is everything it’s cracked up to be. Eight years after it opened and one Michelin star later, the food is just as good and surprising as it was the first couple of times I … Read More
If nothing else, it’s a great story: in 2014, a man in Toulouse, France, is cleaning out his attic and comes across a dirty old painting with rather gory subject matter: a young woman is caught in the act of … Read More
Anyone who loves drawing must not miss the current exhibition at the Fondation Custodia, “The Pushkin Museum: Five Hundred Years of Master Drawings,” a survey of 200 works by some of the greatest artists from the 15th to the 20th centuries. … Read More
Henri II, king of France from 1547 to 1559, is probably best-known for two things: his brazenly open relationship with his beautiful mistress, Diane de Poitiers – to the great chagrin of his wife, Catherine de Médicis – and his … Read More
