Heidi Ellison

Heidi Ellison, a long-time Paris resident, is a freelance journalist specializing in art, travel and literature. Her articles have been published in dozens of international publications, and she has contributed to a number of guidebooks on Paris and France.

Haute Culture: General Idea

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Detail of “XXX (Bleu)” (1984). Courtesy of the estate of General Idea. Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance … Favorite

Tous Cannibales

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Jérôme Zonder’s “Macrophage 0” (2006). Collection of Antoine de Galbert. Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance … Favorite

Jean-Michel Othoniel & François Morellet

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

“The Boat of Tears” (2004). © Jean-Michel Othoniel. Courtesy of Galerie Perrotin, Paris Anyone who has seen Jean-Michel Othoniel’s delightful Paris Métro entrance on the Place Colette, all playful round shapes made of colored glass balls and … Favorite

Five Exhibitions

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Miró’s “Jeune Fille S’évadant” (1968). © Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011. Photo: Claude Germain Joan Miró (1893-1983), best known for his colorful, whimsical paintings, was also a prolific sculptor, to put it mildly: between the ages of 50 and … Favorite

Richard Prince

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Richard Prince’s “Untitled (de Kooning)” (2009).© Richard Prince. The debate rages on about the appropriateness of appropriation in art and music, but when it comes to Richard Prince, I will definitely come down on the … Favorite

Aragon et l’Art Moderne

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

“Le Jour V” (1945) by Bernard Lorjou. © Adagp, Paris 2010. Photo © Jean Bernard One of the founders, with André Breton and Philippe Soupault, of the Surrealist movement in 1924, Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was a … Favorite

Monet and Abstraction

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Nicolas de Staël’s “Mediterranean Landscape” (1953). Madrid, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. © Adagp, Paris 2010 The idea that the work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet prefigured 20th-century abstract painting is not new, but “Monet et l’Abstraction,” the current temporary exhibition at the … Read More

Fleurs Fraîches

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive, Exhibitions

David Hockney’s paintings are so pretty and colorful and joyful that it should be easy to dismiss them as not being serious art. And what could be prettier than the flowers that are the subject of the new show “Fleurs … Read More

Trésor des Médicis

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

“Adoration of the Magi” (1476) by Sandro Botticelli.Photo: Archivio Fotografico della Soprintendenza per il Polo Museale Fiorentino You might call it an Italian rags-to-riches story: a family of wool traders-turned-bankers who grew so fabulously wealthy that they were able not … Read More