Lascaux à Paris
Cro-Magnon Cave Art Pays a Visit to Paris “The Black Cow.” Photo © Denis Nidos I have never had the opportunity to visit the original Lascaux caves (closed to the public since 1963 because of the damage to the wall … Read More
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Gitane à la Guitare
Paris Update Art Notes MYTH OF THE ARTIST DECONSTRUCTED “L’Aimable Surprise,” by Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard. As if Paris didn’t have enough museums and galleries, there are also many little-known art spaces hidden away in the suburbs just waiting … Read More
Beauté Congo
Exuberant Escape to the World of the Congo
The Fondation Cartier has done Parisians a favor by organizing the vibrant exhibition “Beauté Congo,” a survey of nearly a century of painting, sculpture, photography and music in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a refreshing burst of color … Read More
Paris Musées Collections
Paris Update Art Notes CITY’S ART MORE ACCESSIBLE “Portrait of George Sand” (1838), by Auguste Charpentier, part of the collection of the Musée de la Vie Romantique. The distinction may not be obvious to most visitors, but some of Paris’s … Read More
Emile Bernard
Painting Through the Eyes of Others “Femmes à cheval à Robinson” (1887). © D.R. Emile Bernard (1868-1941) is a painter whose work I have occasionally had an intriguing glimpse of in various group exhibitions, but retrospectives of his work seem … Read More
Olafur Eliasson: Contact
Magic Made of Light and Mirrors Olafur Eliasson’s “Map for Unthought Thoughts” (2014), Photo: Iwan Baan The artist Olafur Eliasson is something of a genius at creating spectacular effects and fabulous illusions using the simplest of means, a talent … Read More
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Prison Break-ins, Fathers and Sons, and More “Intérieur d’une Cellule” (2010). © Grégoire Korganow pour le CGLPL There are no real links between the new crop of photography exhibitions at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie, but each one of … Read More
Lumières: The Play of Brilliants & Takis: Champs Magnétiques
Let There Be Light . . . And Movement “Circular” by WHITEvoid and “Disco Disco” by Haberdashery. Photo: Emmanuel Donny The name of the show “Lumières: Play of Brilliants” might not make much sense in English, but this exhibition at … Read More
Les Tudors
The True Story BehindA Royal Soap Opera “Elizabeth I” (detail, c. 1600), by an English artist. © National Portrait Gallery, London, England The Musée du Luxembourg is holding another one of its enjoyably didactic biographical-historical exhibitions, similar to last year’s … Read More
Degas: An Impressionist Painter?
Degas Put to the Test: Is He or Isn’t He?
“Portraits dans un Bureau (Nouvelle-Orléans)” (1873) © RMN-Grand Palais/Photos: Michèle Bellot and Madeleine Coursaget The exhibition’s title says it all: “Degas: An Impressionist Painter?” The Musée des Impressionismes Giverny has set out to answer a question that was already being … Read More