Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Adopt a gargoyle Anyone can contribute any amount to the restoration of Notre Dame’s treasures after the great fire by donating to the Friends of Notre Dame’s fundraising campaign. (Hyperallergic) Call My Agent star reveals all Liliane Rovère, who played … Read More
Musée Carnavalet
Revamped Home for Treasures of Paris History
Anyone who loves Paris has to love the Musée Carnavalet, the museum of the city’s history, located in part in the stately 16th-century mansion in the Marais once occupied by one of its pre-eminent citizens, the famous aristocratic letter-writer Madame … Read More
Cuisine Restaurant
Post-Lockdown Terrace Dining
After hearing a horror story about all the good restaurants in Paris being fully booked for the weeks following their reopening on May 19, I whipped out my list of wanna-try restaurants and prepared myself mentally for a frustrating hour … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Louvre lovers speak out The first visitors to the Louvre when it reopened last week explain why they just had to be there. (Artnet News). And the museum now has its first woman director. (The Art Newspaper) New rules for … Read More
Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection
Pinault Pulls It Off with Panache
French tycoon François Pinault’s desire to show his contemporary art collection in Paris has been thwarted over and over again for more than two decades, but now his dream has finally come true. The Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection opens to … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Hockney in France David Hockney seems to be blossoming in his later years, and so is the Royal Academy of Arts, brightened by paintings of springtime made around the artist’s “seven dwarves house” in Normandy. (The Guardian) Air crash accountability … Read More
Drawing Factory
The Drawing on the Wall
Most of us have been to open-studio events, and while it is always interesting to see artists’ studios and their work, the quality of the latter often leaves something to be desired, leading to art fatigue. At the Drawing Factory’s … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Napoleonic art crimes A new book, Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast, by Cynthia Saltzman, describes how Veronese’s masterpiece The Wedding Feast at Cana came to hang (legally) in the Louvre. (Artnews) More on Napoleon’s looting of European art to … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
The Oyster Women of Cancale In Cancale, Britanny, famed for its delectable oysters, the local women proved their mettle as both workers and managers while the men were off cod fishing in the New World. (Atlas Obscura) Travel in France … Read More
Women Painters 1780-1830
A Place at the Easel
In an entrepreneurial spirit not often found among state-run French museums, the Musée du Luxembourg is offering its exhibition “Peintres Femmes, 1780-1830.” (“Women Painters”) for online viewing for €5 (€9 if you agree to visit the exhibition in the company … Read More