Heidi Ellison
Event
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
Exil & Yayoi Kusama
Paris Update Art Notes OUTSIDERS COME IN FROM THE COLD Less than a week remains to see these two worthwhile art exhibitions. “Exil,” at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers (15, rue de l’École-de-Médecine, 75006 Paris; free admission) through Jan. 12, is … Read More
Gisèle Freund
Paris Update Art Notes DEFINITIVE IMAGES James Joyce, Paris, 1939 © Gisèle Freund/IMEC/Fonds MCC Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) seems to have been born under a lucky star. As a young Jewish woman, she left Germany in 1933 to study in Paris … Read More
Neon: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
Paris Update Flash News ELECTRIC ART Claude Lévêque’s “Revez!” (2008). Photo: Adagp/Courtesy of Claude Lévêque and Kamel Mennour. Who knew that neon lighting, probably most closely identified with Las Vegas, was introduced in 1912 in France by company called Air … Read More
Hidden Art Exhibitions
Paris Update Art Notes PRIVATE VIEWS “Full Lake” (2012) by Haeri Yoo. “Hidden restaurants,” i.e., restaurants in private homes, have been all the rage in Paris for some time, but the latest trend seems to be “hidden art exhibitions.” Last … Read More
Masters of Chaos
Paris Update Art Notes CHAOS AND CATHARSIS Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Exu” (1988). © The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ ADAGP, Paris 2012 For its exhibition “Les Maîtres du Désordre” (“Masters of Chaos”), the Musée du Quai Branly has come up with a … Read More
Joel-Peter Witkin
Paris Update Art Notes TORMENTS OLD AND NEW Joel-Peter Witkin’s “Poussin in Hell” (1999). © Joel-Peter Witkin. Courtesy Baudoin Lebon Joel-Peter Witkin is not everyone’s cup of bile. Even those accustomed to his over-the-top, death-obsessed (some with real corpses for … Read More
Seasons in the Abyss
Paris Update Art Notes ART GALLERY AT SCHOOL “Seasons in the Abyss.” Artists’ residencies are common around the world, but it is perhaps rarer for an internationally renowned artist to donate his time to a grammar school. French artist Claude … Read More
Monumenta
Paris Update Art Notes BUREN’S GRAND PALAIS Mirrored discs on the floor give visitors a new perspective on the roof of the Grand Palais. For this year’s Monumenta, French artist Daniel Buren, famed for his obsession with stripes, has been … Read More
Wim Delvoye at the Louvre
Paris Update Art Notes GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER,YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY “Kashan” (2010), by Wim Delvoye, in the apartment of Napoleon III in the Louvre. © 2012 Musée du Louvre/Olivier Ouadah © ADAGP The exhibition “Wim Delvoye at the Louvre” … Read More