Heidi Ellison

Heidi Ellison, a long-time Paris resident, is a freelance journalist specializing in art, travel and literature. Her articles have been published in dozens of international publications, and she has contributed to a number of guidebooks on Paris and France.

Cold Water

Irish Huit Clos

February 8, 2017 | By Heidi Ellison | Theater & Dance

What happens when a resented ex-lover turns up at a reunion of three old friends in a country house in Ireland and a kindly neighbor is unexpectedly thrown into the mix? In Christophe Garros’s new play, Cold Water, it turns … Read More

The Merovingian Age

February 1, 2017 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive, Exhibitions

Gleams of Light From the ‘Dark Ages’ The “Dark Ages” weren’t as dark as all that, judging by the all gleaming gold in the exhibition “The Merovingian Age” at the Musée de Cluny. It must be the gold, always a … Read More

Paris Update Events 01.02.17

February 1, 2017 | By Heidi Ellison | Week events

For full details about an event, click on the title to visit the official Web site (in English when available). Winter dancing > The Faits d’Hiver festival presents seven new dance performances. Various venues, Paris and suburbs, through Feb. 9. … Read More

L’Esprit du Bauhaus

Artists and Artisans United in Modernity

January 25, 2017 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive, Exhibitions

Seeing the exhibition “The Spirit of the Bauhaus” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is the next best thing to going to the famous school itself, which would, of course, be impossible, since it was shut down in 1933 after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe refused to submit to Nazi conditions, which included the dismissal of one of its professors, Wassily Kandinsky, considered a “degenerate artist.”