Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Events 09.05.18
May 13 Designer flea market Sixty-five stands will be selling designer furniture by the likes of Pierre Paulin and Arne Jacobsen at the Brocante Design. Rue des Fossés Saint Bernard, Paris May 13 Pink Bra Toss Event in support of breast … Read More
Gilles Caron: May 1968
The Dramas of a Symbolic Revolution
It’s May 2018, 50 years after the “events” of May 1968, and commemorative exhibitions are popping up all over Paris. The Hôtel de Ville alone has two exhibitions: outside on the fence is “Quand 68 Prend la Parole,” a show featuring reproductions … Read More
Pirouette Restaurant
The Terrace Advantage
I’ve been wanting to get back to Pirouette for a while now since I am a fan of its sister restaurant Zébulon and hadn’t yet tried out its latest chef, François-Xavier Ferrol. I was also scouting for restaurants with good terraces for … Read More
Vélib’ Métropole
The Vélib' Métropole Debacle
I am no fan of the company JCDecaux, which has littered Paris with advertising panels, but the city of Paris seems to have made a bad decision when it replaced Decaux’s subsidiary Cyclocity as the concessionaire for the Vélib’ bike-sharing … Read More
Azzedine Alaïa: Je Suis un Couturier
Tribute to an Atypical Designer
“Je Suis Couturier,” an exhibition paying tribute to the beloved fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, who died at the age of 82 last November, is on show in the designer’s former home and studio in Paris’s Marais through June 10. Alaïa, … Read More
Bar à Iode
Big Fish, Little Fish
If you’re fishing for a seafood restaurant that won’t leave you high and dry with an empty wallet, the Bar à Iode in Paris’s fifth arrondissement is the place to go. Not only does this restaurant on the Boulevard Saint Germain make … Read More
Paris Update Events 02.05.18
May 5 Bare-assed at the museum The Association des Naturistes de Paris has organized a nude (and free) visit to the exhibition “Discorde: Fille de la Nuit” at 9:30am. Palais de Tokyo May 4-6 Documentary photos Photo Doc: an exhibition of … Read More
Transit
History Repeated?
The French-German production Transit, directed by Christian Petzold, is an odd bird of a film. It takes place in present-day France (oddly, no one has a cellphone, however), where unidentified “Fascist” occupiers are moving through the country arresting foreigners. The … Read More
La Collection Bic
Creating with the Ubiquitous Bic
“La Collection Bic,” an exhibition at Paris’s Centquatre cultural center, shows us a new facet of the humble Bic pen, which, along with its relatives the Bic lighter and razor, have been a familiar part of our lives for decades. … Read More
Paris Update Events 25.04.18
May 5-8 Studio-hopping Artists living in the 20th arrondissement open their studios to the public during Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes du Père Lachaise. Various locations, Paris April 25-May 28 Great American director William Wyler is the subject of a retrospective … Read More