Les Gendarmes Crèvent l’Écran
Arresting Images of French Gendarmes
Melun is not the most beautiful town in France, but having spent New Year’s Eve there once, I can testify that it is home to some of the nicest people in the country. It is also home to the Musée … Read More
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Christian Louboutin: L’Exhibition[niste]
Worshipping at the Church of Louboutin
After seeing the spectacular exhibition “Christian Louboutin: L’Exhibition[niste]” at Paris’s Palais de la Porte Dorée, I am convinced that Louboutin is a shoe-in for best footwear designer ever, and that he himself (judging by this show, he is no shrinking … Read More
La Force du Dessin: Chefs-d’Œuvre de la Collection Prat
On the Drawing Board
The new exhibition at the Petit Palais, “In the Drawing Room: Masterpieces from the Prat Collection,” takes us on a tour of drawings by French artists from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th, showing … Read More
Otto Freundlich: La Révélation de l’Abstraction
The Cosmic Bridge of Art
Imagine that you are an artist arriving in Paris for the first time in 1908. Right away, you are offered a studio in the Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre, where you immediately meet and befriend Pablo Picasso, followed by many of … Read More
Les Parisiens dans l’Exode
Refugees Without Refuge
Of all the horrors that occurred during World War II, the mass exodus from Paris in 1940 as the Germans approached the city may not have been the most horrendous, which may explain why the story has been so seldom … Read More
National Therapy by Peter Johansson
Demolishing National and Personal Demons
There are only a few days left to see “National Therapy by Peter Johansson” at the Institut Suédois. Dark yet very funny, the show, like all of Johansson’s work, casts a bemused eye on traditional Swedish symbols and stars the … Read More
Fluidités: L’Humain qui Vient
Far-out Visions for Humanity
Le Fresnoy–Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in the small city of Tourcoing just outside of Lille, is a hotspot where art and technology meet and merge. Its current exhibition, “Fluidités: L’Humain qui Vient,” gives 16 artists a chance to explore … Read More
The Strange Tales of Niels Hansen Jacobsen, a Dane in Paris
Scary Fairy Tales
The variety and quality of the temporary exhibitions at the Musée Bourdelle in Montparnasse are always impressive, as they look not just at the work of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle himself but also what was happening around him in other … Read More
Corneille: Un CoBrA dans le Sillage de Gauguin
Channeling Gauguin
Paul Gauguin was the best-known member of the late-19th-century Pont-Aven School, centered in the Breton fishing town of the same, but the current exhibition at the Musée de Pont-Aven, “Corneille: Un CoBrA dans le Sillage de Gauguin,” features a 20th-century … Read More
Drapé
Let It Flow
The depiction of drapery has been a constant in art since Antiquity and is still often present today, although in sometimes surprising forms. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon has had the excellent idea of devoting an entire exhibition to … Read More