Heidi Ellison
Forest Restaurant
A Postmodern Refuge
If you are visiting Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne and can’t see the Forest for the art, go downstairs and out onto the spacious terrace with a gorgeous view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower, located between the museum and … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Body politic French artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar, whose accomplishments include writing, dance, film, performance and a wide variety of artistic productions, has won the €35,000 Marcel Duchamp Prize for contemporary art for her politically aware work. (Artnews) FIAC Art fairs are … Read More
Vivian Maier
Maier Mania
Who hasn’t yet heard of Vivian Maier, nanny by profession, photographer by avocation? Her story is so unusual and her photographs so good that she never ceases to fascinate. Now the Musée de Luxembourg is holding what is apparently the … Read More
Cantine Russe Restaurant
Flashback to the '80s
Men armed with Kalashnikovs circled the room. Loud popping sounds filled the air. Tensions were running high. We froze as one of the men carrying a Kalashnikov approached our table and lowered his gun, pointing it at my glass. Vodka … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Art from north to south For all art lovers raring to return to France, here’s a guide to art events ranging from FIAC (Paris’s major contemporary art fair) to the Luma Arles art complex, where Frank Gehry’s golden tower looms … Read More
The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art
Collecting Fever in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
The Fondation Louis Vuitton is presenting another blockbuster exhibition of a major Russian art collection, “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art,” following up on 2016-17’s showing of the amazing Shchukin Collection. The Morozov Collection, full of masterpieces by great … Read More
Louis Vins Restaurant
Back to the Latin Quarter
Last week, we reviewed the restaurant Narro, a rare gourmet gem in the midst of student-central in the Latin Quarter. This week, we miraculously found yet another fabulous restaurant not far away in the fifth arrondissement, Louis Vins. I have … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Arc de Triomphe sheds its wrapping Sunday, October 3, was the last day of the art installation “Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” created by the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which delighted more than 800,000 visitors over a period of three weeks. … Read More
Narro Restaurant
Island of Calm amid Latin Quarter Uproar
The Latin Quarter, around Rue Mouffetard and Place de la Contrascarpe, was positively roaring the other night, with every café and restaurant terrace packed with mostly young people raucously enjoying themselves. Luckily, I had reserved a table for two at … Read More
Georgia O’Keeffe
A Painter's Painter
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) is mega-famous in the United States for her flower paintings, almost to the point of oversaturation, but the current retrospective at Paris’s Centre Pompidou shows just how much more there was to the work of this versatile … Read More