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Paris Est une Fête
Paris As a Mirror of Distress
Several years ago, a group of party-loving young Parisians, shaken up by the terrorist attacks of 2015 and intrigued by the Occupy movement (“Nuit Debout” in France), showed a good dose of the entrepreneurial spirit mentioned in last week’s article … Read More
Le silence du Mirror
Finding Poetry in Instant
In his one-man show Le Silence du Mirror, actor/director Bruno Abadie uses the Kafkaesque writings of Romanian-French playwright and novelist Matéi Visniec to poetically and humorously express the insanity of life under a repressive totalitarian government. Abadie’s stylized reading and … Read More
Iconomania
New-Age Icons
Only one week left to see “Iconomania” (through March 31) at the Maif Social Club, a new cultural space opened by the Maif insurance company in the Marais. This fascinating exhibition showcases young artists using new technologies to explore the … Read More
Césars 2017
César Looks to Oscar for Inspiration
Who needs the Oscars when you can have the Césars? The immediate answer is that the organizers of the Césars themselves seem to be the ones who can’t do without their American equivalent. Like the British Oscars – the BAFTAs … Read More
Pixel Avenue
Paris Update Art Notes CURE FOR TUNNEL BLUES Pixel Avenue, a monumental installation by Paris artist Fred Sapey-Triomphe, produced by Digitalarti, is a surefire cure for tunnel blues as it lights up the ceiling in a tunnel in Seine Saint-Denis, … Read More
Cheap Films on Tuesday
Gaumont-Pathé has had the great idea of offering reduced prices on Tuesdays for some recent films that are about to go out of circulation. Tickets cost only €4.50 and must be booked online. Click here for details. Above: Isabelle Huppert … Read More
Lost in Frenchlation
Even fluent French speakers sometimes have trouble understanding the dialogue in French films, so the new service offered by an association called Lost in Frenchlation, which subtitles French films in English, is a welcome one. The goal is “to make French … Read More
Christopher Forbes Collection
Tragicomic Coda orMisunderstood Monarch? “Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies-in-Waiting,” after Franz-Xavier Winterhalter. © Osenat Louis Napoleon, a.k.a. Napoleon III, gets a bad rap from history: he is often seen as a sort of tragicomic coda to the glories of … Read More
La Cité de Refuge
Rebirth of Le Corbusier’s Salvation Army Building The Cité de Refuge. © FLC/ADAGP/Cyrille Weiner The residents of the Cité de Refuge in Paris count themselves lucky indeed. Not only do they live in a historic monument designed by one of … Read More