Paris Update

The Friar of Carcassonne

October 3, 2011 | By Paris Update | Books

How can people think of the Middle Ages as dusty and dull? To anyone who leans in that direction, en garde! A copy of Stephen O’Shea’s new book, The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days … Read More

One-Minute Paris: La Fête de la Danse

September 27, 2011 | By Paris Update | Photo of the week

{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}r-SCNidTwM4{/youtube} One-Minute Paris: A new event, the Fête de la Danse, offered dance classes to the masses in Paris’s Grand Palais last weekend. Click here to view on larger screen. Favorite

One-Minute Paris: ‘In_Perceptions’ at Centquatre

September 27, 2011 | By Paris Update | Photo of the week

{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}jBhe6gs1S78{/youtube} The exhibition “In_Perceptions” at Centquatre (5, rue Curial, 75019 Paris, through Dec. 9) consists of five mind-bending monumental installations by artists Leandro Erlich, Ann Veronica Janssens and Lawrence Malstaf that play with our perceptions. The work in … Read More

Paris Fashion Week

September 27, 2011 | By Paris Update | Shopping

Paris Prêt-à-Porter Wondering why you’ve seen so many giraffe-like young women in tall boots and short-shorts wandering through the streets of Paris or roaming the corridors of the Métro? It’s Fashion Week, of course. The ready-to-wear shows began yesterday. To … Read More