Claudia Barbieri
Le Salon de George Sand
At Home with George … And Frédéric, Franz, Eugène … George Sand’s House in Nohant. © Etienne Revault-CMN In 1821, a 17-year-old girl named Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, who would one day become George Sand, inherited a small manor house, the Manoir … Read More
Fondation Claude Monet Giverny
Furnishing Giverny for Its Former Residents “In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading” (1887), by Claude Monet. As is by now well-known, the artist Claude Monet and his family moved into a house … Read More
Cook Indian
Curry in a kit Dasary Shreevalli, a Paris-based international marketing consultant from Bangalore, recently launched a range of simple Indian cooking kits, under the “Cook Indian” label, to introduce the flavors of the subcontinent to novice chefs. Each kit contains … Read More
Linda McCartney: Retrospective 1965-1997
Paris Update Art Notes HOMAGE TO ANOTHER MCCARTNEY “Martha My Dear, London, 1968.” © 1968 Paul McCartney/Photographer: Linda McCartney Linda McCartney may be best known for forming the post-Beatles band Wings with her husband, Paul McCartney, but before she hitched … Read More
Valentine Specials
Paris Update What’s New in Paris VALENTINE SPLURGE A suite at the Royal Monceau-Raffles. The recently renovated Royal Monceau-Raffles Hotel (37, avenue Hoche 75008 Paris; 01 42 99 88 77) has not just one, but two Michelin-starred restaurants. For Valentine’s … Read More
Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera: L’Art en Fusion
The Art and Love of Elephant and Dove
They were known as the elephant and the dove. Diego Rivera was larger than life, expansive, a fervent nationalist, communist and revolutionary, and a painter of giant frescoes on grandiose themes like the birth of Mexico and national identity. Frida … Read More
Brittany: Art in the Chapels
Contemporary Religious Art: Blasphemy or Blessing? The Chapelle St Gildas in Bieuzy-les-Eaux. If Puff the Magic Dragon ever joined the cast of “Sesame Street,” he might look like the mop-headed multipede by the artist Virginie Barré in the Chapel of … Read More
Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin
French GagosianLikes to Provoke “Nasutamanus” (2012), by Daniel Firman. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli Emmanuel Perrotin, France’s answer to Larry Gagosian, is celebrating his Paris-based gallery’s 25th anniversary with a major exhibition, “Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin,” Favorite
Désirs et Volupté
English Love Affair with Erotic Sensuality “A Song of Springtime” (1913), by John William Waterhouse. Photo © Studio Sébert Photographes In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the English were a pretty rakish lot. Victorian prudery drove that tendency underground, … Read More
Expérience Pommery
Underground Art inChampagne Country “Maintenant/Now” (1997), by Stéphane Calais in the stairway leading to the cavernous cellars. Photo: © Fred Laures In the soft chalk of the hill beneath Reims, the Roman Gauls burrowed a honeycomb of mines, extracting the … Read More