Heidi Ellison
Café Les Deux Gares
On the Right Track
The aptly named Café Les Deux Gares is located smack between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l’Est (within walking distance of each other) at the top of a handsome double staircase. This used to be an ordinary … Read More
Une Femme de Notre Temps
Target Practice
The French actor Sophie Marceau, who is approaching the age of 57, has been an absolute star in France and elsewhere for some 42 years, ever since her first adolescent role in Claude Pinoteau’s La Boum (The Party) in 1980. … Read More
Paris Update Events 28.09.2022
September 29 French film with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents La Dérive des Continents, directed by Lionel Baier. L’Arlequin, Paris October 1 Midnight culture Art of all types will be on display in the streets of Paris late into … Read More
Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death
Origins of “The Scream”
The exhibition “Edvard Munch: A Poem of Life, Love and Death” at the Musée d’Orsay does not start off with the Norwegian artist’s most famous painting, “The Scream,” but a sense of strangeness and unease still hits the visitor right … Read More
Bistrot Mee
No Comparison
I recently dined with a friend at the Korean restaurant Bistro Mee, prompted by the good press it has been receiving lately. I had high hopes that it would be as original as the restaurant Jong-no Samgyetang, a hole-in-the-wall place … Read More
La Fondation du Doute
When in Doubt, Make Art
The words “ebullient” and “irrepressible” are weak when it comes to Ben, the 87-year-old Fluxus artist, who showed up last week at the Fondation de Doute (Doubt Foundation) art center in Blois to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Fluxus … Read More
Paris Update Events 21.09.2022
September 23 French film with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Rumba La Vie, directed by Franck Dubosc. Club de L’Étoile, Paris Through September 23 River art Sens Dessus Dessous: art honoring the upcoming Paris Paralympic Games adorns several Paris … Read More
Frida Kahlo: Beyond Appearances
A Life as Art
Just when you think you know everything there is to know about Frida Kahlo (1907–54), an artist whose life and work have deeply fascinated the public in recent decades, along comes this captivating exhibition at Paris’s Palais Galliera, “Frida Kahlo: … Read More
Le Musée du Verre François Décorchemont
Celebrating a Century of Glass Art
The creation of a new museum in France today is a rare and challenging feat, even more so when it is accomplished by a village with a population of only 5,000. The Musée du Verre François Décorchemont (François Décorchemont Glass … Read More
Bistrot des Tournelles
A Welcome Throwback
Dinner at the Bistrot des Tournelles was the perfect kickoff to the Paris rentrée, the back-to-school and back-to-work season. A welcome throwback to earlier times, the smallish restaurant opened only a couple of months ago near Bastille and is already … Read More