A Feat of Aestheticism Frederic Leighton’s “Pavonia” (1858-59). © Christie’s Images The exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay with the ungainly title “Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde” is rather ungainly itself. Exhaustive Favorite
Two Expessions of German Expressionism “Landscape with White Wall” (1910) by Gabriele Münter. © Adagp, Paris 2011 The exhibition “Expressionismus & Expressionismi: Berlin-Munich 1905-1920, Der Blaue Reiter vs Brücke” at the Pinacothèque de Paris, like many of the Favorite
A Feast of Beasts in All-Animal Exhibition Théodore Géricault’s “Head of a Lioness (c. 1819). © Service Presse, Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais/Christian Jean If you love animals (or at least pictures of them) and you love art, it will … Read More
Three Times A Charm Annette Messager’s “Motion/Emotion” (2012) at La Triennale. One week after the reopening of the immense spaces of Paris’s cutting-edge contemporary art museum, the Palais de Tokyo, with the show “(Entre)Ouverture,” consisting Favorite
Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise” (1873), the painting whose name has gone down in history. © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris/Bridgeman Giraudon The exhibition “Monet: Son Musée” at the Musée Marmottan Monet is as intimate as the current mega-Monet retrospective at the Grand … Read More
Detail of “Flora” by Ambroise Dubois, on show at the Château de Fontainebleau. The well-preserved Château de Fontainebleau is a palimpsest illustrating the tastes of French kings and emperors from François I to Napoleon III. Each one left his mark … Read More
Colette in her Palais Royal apartment in Paris, 1953. Photo by Janine Niepce. © Janine Niepce / Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Roger-Viollet It may seem that feminism was born in the 1960s with the bra burners of the Women’s Lib … Read More
Imagined war scene at the Arc de Triomphe © Parrick Chauvel. Photomontage: Paul Biota On my way to the exhibition “Peurs sur la Ville: Violences Urbaines à Paris” at the Monnaie de Paris the other day, I noticed a plaque … Read More
Detail of Domenico Fetti’s “Portrait of an Actor” (1620-23). © Hermitage Museum. Photo: Vladimir Terebenin, Leonard Kheifets, Yuri Molodkovets The Pinacothèque de Paris, flush with the success of crowd-magnet exhibitions like the continuing “Gold of the Incas: Origins and Mysteries,” … Read More
Detail of “XXX (Bleu)” (1984). Courtesy of the estate of General Idea. Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance … Favorite
