Paris Update What’s New in Paris WALKING DRAMAArc-en-Noir: Kosovo-Kosova: A walking play in the Parc de Belleville about a young woman in Kosovo. Written and directed by Kassia Aleksic. Meet at 45, rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris. June 22, 4pm-6pm; … Read More
Paris Update Secret Paris The Square Hector Berlioz today, a popular site for film shoots. On her frequent trips to Paris, National Public Radio journalist Susan Stamberg likes to visit the setting of a favorite painting and compare current reality … Read More
SAVE THE SWEDISH CULTURAL CENTEROne of the more magical places in Paris, the Swedish Cultural Center (now called the Swedish Institute) in the Marais, is threatened with closure because of government budget cuts. Anyone who has taken advantage of its … Read More
Mathieu Mercier’s “Cage à Oiseaux.” The French city of Nantes is one of the last destinations you would consider for a safari, unless you were on the hunt for works of animal-themed art, currently the … Favorite
“Untitled” (2009), one of Miquel Barceló’s paintings on termite-eaten paper. © Miquel Barceló/ADAGP Miquel Barceló, like Pablo Picasso, is a natural-born artist, working with enormous ease, superhuman energy and great versatility. Just as Picasso could look at … Favorite
Home at the Château One of the sitting rooms where guests can mingle or have a quiet drink. The Villa Saint Victor, a hilltop château-hotel in Provence, is not the ancestral residence of Geoffroy and Stéphane Vieljeux’s family, but the … Read More
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
Paris Update Art Notes PICASSO IN SITU Pablo Picasso: “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe d’après Manet”(1961). © Succession Picasso 2012 © Réunion des Musées Nationaux © Musée National Picasso-Paris With the Picasso Museum in Paris closed for renovation until 2013, the … Read More
RESTAURANT NEWS According to Restaurant Magazine’s San Pellegrino ranking of the world’s top 50 restaurants, announced on April 21, the giants are still Ferran Adrià of El Bulli and Heston Blumenthal of the UK’s Fat Duck, who once again came … Read More
FALL OPENING FOR SPRING BOUTIQUE Fans of Daniel Rose’s Spring will have to content themselves with the boutique until the new Paris restaurant opens in March. Daniel Rose shot to fame in a very short time with his tiny Spring … Read More
