Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Events 22.02.17
For full details about an event, click on the title to visit the official Web site (in English when available). French film with English subtitles > Lost in Frenchlation shows Hélène Angel’s Primaire. Cinéma Le Brady, Paris, Feb. 24 Virtual reality … Read More
Paris Update Events 15.02.17
For full details about an event, click on the title to visit the official Web site (in English when available). French artists at the Grand Palais > The Salon des Artistes Français gives over 600 artists a chance to show … Read More
Le Marché de Marilore
One-Stop Shopping Hopping At The Coolest Market In Town
You’re on your way home from work and realize that the larder is empty. You could go to a supermarket for boring dinner ingredients, but if you’re lucky it’s Tuesday and you happen to be passing by the Marché de … Read More
Machines à Dessiner
Dream Machines and Obscure Cities
The unusual exhibition “Drawing Machines” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers interprets its title in a variety of ways in an effort “to portray the timeless magic of drawing.” There are machines designed to help artists draw. There are … Read More
Paris Update Events 08.02.17
For full details about an event, click on the title to visit the official Web site (in English when available). Benefit concert for Syria > Harpsichordist Joachim Son will play at a fundraising concert (free; reserve online) to benefit two … Read More
Tenue correcte exigée: Quand le vêtement fait scandale
Shock and Awe: Fashion Rebels
Visitors to “Tenue Correcte Exigée: Quand le Vêtement Fait Scandale” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs are greeted with insults in many languages splashed like graffiti on the walls: “What’s that you’re wearing? A sack?” “Fashion faux pas!” “Don’t you … Read More
Cold Water
Irish Huit Clos
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
Sense Eat
Helping Mankind through Vegetarianism
Written in script on the menu of Sense Eat, an Italian vegetarian restaurant near Odéon, is a quote from Albert Einstein: “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, … Read More
The Merovingian Age
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
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