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Théodore Rousseau: The Voice of the Forest

Théodore Rousseau: The Voice of the Forest

Planting the Radical Idea of Forest Preservation

March 12, 2024 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

It’s hard to imagine a painter of trees and other manifestations of nature being considered a wild-eyed radical, but back in 1830 the idea of painting a landscape just for the sake of painting a landscape was academic-art-world heresy. Being … Read More

Sarah Bernhardt: And the Woman Created the Star

Sarah Bernhardt: And the Woman Created the Star

Wondrous Woman

August 2, 2023 | By Claudia Barbieri | Exhibitions

To Jean Cocteau, she was a “sacred monster.” To Victor Hugo, she was “the golden voice.” To her many lovers in the demi-monde of Second Empire and Third Republic Paris, she was a grande horizontale, one of those entrancing, talented … Read More

Walter Sickert: Peindre et Transgresser

Walter Sickert: Peindre et Transgresser

The Painter as Chameleon

November 16, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), the subject of a retrospective at Paris’s Petit Palais, “Walter Sickert: Peindre et Transgresser,” was described by Delphine Lévy, the late French Sickert expert, as “provocative and enigmatic,” haughty and defensive even with long-time friends like … Read More

Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone

Dancing with the Elements

October 19, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

Just in time for Art Basel, the new contemporary art fair that has replaced FIAC, the Petit Palais has opened an exhibition of the work of one of today’s leading contemporary artists, Ugo Rondinone. The show’s lowercased title, “the water … Read More

Boldini: Les Plaisirs et les Jours

Boldini: Les Plaisirs et les Jours

Dazzling Visions of a 'Neurotic Era'

April 6, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), an Italian artist who spent most of his long career in Paris, was the fashion influencer par excellence of his day. Stylish Belle Époque women actually went on diets in order to be fit subjects for his … Read More

Albert Edelfelt & Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Albert Edelfelt & Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Race to the Finnish

March 16, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

Is it an invasion from the north? Yes, but of a rather more gentle kind than we are seeing in Ukraine right now. For several years now, various Paris museums have been spotlighting the work of Nordic artists, notably in … Read More

Ilya Repin: Painting the Soul of Russia

Ilya Repin: Painting the Soul of Russia

The Tolstoy of the Russian Art World

January 12, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

The exhibition “Ilya Repin: Painting the Soul of Russia,” at the Petit Palais in Paris, serves not only as a retrospective of the work of the great realist painter but also as a sort of overview of nearly a century … Read More

The Golden Age of Danish Painting

The Golden Age of Danish Painting

An Island of Calm in a Sea of Romanticism

October 14, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

The brilliance of the Dutch Golden Age is universally known and appreciated, but who gives a thought to the Danish Golden Age? Luckily, Paris’s Petit Palais is educating us with the delightful and comprehensive exhibition, “L’Âge d’Or de la Peinture … Read More

La Force du Dessin: Chefs-d’Œuvre de la Collection Prat

La Force du Dessin: Chefs-d’Œuvre de la Collection Prat

On the Drawing Board

June 24, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

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

Francophiles’ Guide to Après-Quarantine, V. III

Francophiles’ Guide to Après-Quarantine, V. III

Live (Distanced) Art, Theater, Music & Film

June 17, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | What's New Art & Culture

The excitement is palpable! Paris restaurants, which until now only had permission to serve customers on their terraces or sell takeout food, were finally able to fully reopen on Monday. That momentous event, along with the reopening this week of … Read More

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