Paris Update

It’s a Draw

March 23, 2010 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

IT’S A DRAW Works on paper are the center of attention at a number of art fairs and in many museums and galleries in Paris this week, led by the Salon du Dessin (Palais de la Bourse, through March 29). … Read More

Casanova

March 9, 2010 | By Paris Update | Books

Without having read Casanova, I thought I knew him. His name being synonymous with prodigious sexual conquest, I had intended to read his memoirs out of prurient curiosity, but what a revelation when a couple of years ago I actually … Read More

Emma Malig

March 9, 2010 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

VOYAGES OF THE MIND You will have to leave Paris to see the exhibition “Terra Bruna” (Espace Julio Gonzalez, 21 av. Paul Doumer 94110 Arcueil; tel.: 01 46 15 09 75; RER: Laplace), featuring the work of Paris-based Chilean artist … Read More

Glou

March 2, 2010 | By Paris Update | Archive

Great value for money at 10 euros less. Photo: patricklazic.com Glou is one of those trendy restaurants that takes pride in letting you know where each of the precious ingredients on the menu comes from. This has become tedious, but … Read More

Casanova

February 23, 2010 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

CASANOVA RETURNS TO FRANCE The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has acquired the manuscript of 18th-century Venetian libertine Giacomo Casanova’s Histoire de ma Vie. An anonymous “financial company” paid €7 million to acquire it for the library. Casanova, who once hobnobbed … Read More

Shan Goût

February 23, 2010 | By Paris Update | Archive

Sharing is a good idea at Shan Goût. Photo by John Talbott This pocket-sized Chinese restaurant, lost in a little side street near the Gare de Lyon, is definitely worth a detour from your usual gastronomic route. The dining room … Read More