Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Redux
This must be the season for exhibitions of the work of ballsy women artists in Paris’s museums. It’s about time. While I used the word to describe Alice Neel, whose work is on show at the Centre Pompidou, it could … Read More
Month: October 2022
Le Jourdain Restaurant
By the Book(ing)
In Paris, as you probably already know, if you want to eat at a good restaurant, you can’t expect to reserve at the last minute or just pop in unreserved. A case in point: on Wednesday of last week, I … Read More
L’Innocent
A Question of Innocence
L’Innocent is not really sure what kind of film it is. It’s a kind of stylish mystery/thriller/family drama, like Sophie Marceau’s latest, Une Femme de Notre Temps, but it’s also a kind of heist film, a kind of comedy and … Read More
Paris Update Events 02.11.2022
November 4 French film with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Le Sixième Enfant, directed by Léopold Legrand. L’Entrepôt, Paris November 6 Soirée in aid of Ukrainian culture United Artists for Ukraine will auction off artworks and stage a party … Read More
Joan Mitchell & Monet-Mitchell
Expressions of Impressions
The Fondation Louis Vuitton is devoting not one but two exhibitions to the great American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell (1925-92). One is a retrospective of her work, and the other, “Monet-Mitchell,” compares some of her paintings with those of the … Read More
Selva Restaurant
Getting to the Heart of South American Cuisine
Selva is a restaurant in Paris’s fifth arrondissement offering South American-inspired cuisine “enhanced by French technique.” The decor attempts to immerse you somewhere in the Amazon jungle with green plants and South American fabric designs. We ate in the rather … Read More
Ugo Rondinone
Dancing with the Elements
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
Paris Update Events 19.10.2022
October 20 French film with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents La Page Blanche, directed by Murielle Magellan. Luminor Hôtel de Ville, Paris Through October 22 Orlando revisited Joseph Nechvatal, creator of virus-modeled artificial life computer-assisted paintings and animations, presents … Read More
Oskar Kokoschka: Un Fauve à Vienne
Wild Thing
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was a wild young thing in staid turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. A critic even called him the Oberwildling, or “head savage” of the exhibition ”Kunstschau,” where he exhibited his illustrated poem “The Dreaming Youths,” a tale of teenage sexual … Read More
Notre Café
Where to Lunch in Paris
Readers, I may have found the perfect lunch spot for you. Picture a restaurant with not only a bright, clean, attractive interior but also a beautiful terrace in a quiet garden courtyard, where you can lunch on tasty, super-fresh, reasonably … Read More
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