Harry Long
L’Enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq
The Power of Boredom to Generate Creativity
In September 2011, the (real-life, controversial) French novelist Michel Houellebecq disappeared for some time during a promotional tour for his novel La Carte et le Territoire, giving rise to speculation on the Web as to what had happened to him … Read More
Tonnerre
Shades of Gray In Disturbing Film
After watching director Guillaume Brac’s Tonnerre, you might be inclined to make the distinction between forgettable works of art that are pleasurable because they entertain, and unforgettable works of art that are at once pleasurable and disturbing. I would place Tonnerre … Read More
Voyage dans L’Ancienne Russie
So It Was in Old Russia Photo © Procoudine-Gorsky/Bibliothèque du Congrès Washington The current exhibition at Paris’s Musée Zadkine, “Voyage dans L’Ancienne Russie,” reminded me of a passage by Roland Barthes in La Chambre Claire. He wrote that the sadness, … Read More
Esther Ferrer: Face B. Image/Autoportrait
An Artist’s Unsparing Self-Portrait/Shrine to Herself “Tête Pliée” (2002), from the series “Le Livre des Têtes,” by Esther Ferrer. “Face B. Image/Autoportrait” is an interesting and funny exhibition of edited photographs, videos and sculptures by Spanish artist Esther Ferrer at … Read More
Contes Ineffables, Gérard Garouste
Paris Update Flash News iNEFFABLE STORIES “Wagner, Méphistophélès et l’Homonculus” (2013), by Gérard Garouste. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Templon. Photo: B.Huet/Tutti One painting in “Contes Ineffables,” French artist Gérard Garouste’s current exhibition of paintings and sculpture at the Galerie Daniel Templon … Read More
Silent Faces
Paris Update Art News POIGNANT LIVES “Les Histoires d’Amour Finissent Mal…en Général” (2011), by Giulia Andreani. Even though the exhibition “Silent Faces” (through March 8) is being held in the minuscule Galerie 22,48 m2, (30 rue des Envierges, 75020 Paris; … Read More