Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Top architecture prize goes to French firm In a victory for sustainability, this year’s prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture has been awarded to Lacaton & Vassal, whose motto is “Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!” … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Césars 2021 winners The French version of the Oscars had a tumultuous awards ceremony this year, complete with nudity, fake blood and plenty of political commentaries. Variety offers a rundown of the winners here and an analysis of the state … Read More
Oscar Niemeyer in France
The Shock of the Old
A half-century after Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) designed the headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris, it is still a shock to spot what looks like a flying saucer, as white as the back of a swan, gradually … Read More
Parc de Sceaux
Escape from Paris
With Covid-fatigued Parisians desperate for a ray of sunshine, every square inch of space in Paris’s parks and on the banks of its waterways is occupied when the weather is good, mostly by people who have taken off their masks … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Van Gogh on the block It’s a rare thing when a painting by Vincent Van Gogh comes on the market. “Street Scene in Montmartre” (above) will go on sale at Sotheby’s Paris on March 25, but before then will be … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Covid in France Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is asking the national government to avoid weekend lockdowns in the capital, saying it would be “inhumane.” She also called for a faster rollout of the vaccine (France has received 8 million doses but … Read More
Galerie Perrotin
Strange Dreams
One of Paris’s leading contemporary art galleries, Perrotin, in the Marais, is currently holding two exhibitions of interest. The first, “Inner Songes,” features the work of Jens Fänge, a Swedish artist I was unfamiliar with but was more than happy … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France
Proust retrouvé The 75 missing pages from Marcel Proust‘s first draft of À la Recherche du Temp Perdu have been found and published. (The Guardian) Architecture in France Richard Rogers, who designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Renzo Piano, … Read More
Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique
Open Window on Art
Defying the pandemic-induced gloom in the gallery world, commercial spaces seem to be proliferating in Paris’s Marais, with two new ones recently opened, both by Italian gallerists. The latest addition, the tiny Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, couldn’t be more … Read More
A Flâneur’s Guide: Paris, the Left Bank
Left Bank Lore
Update, Feb. 9, 2022: Since this review was written, a revised second edition of A Flaneur’s Guide: Paris, the Left Bank has been published. See the end of this article for a special price on the new edition. Flâneurs who … Read More