Paris Update
Andrea Branzi
GRANDI LEGNI The current show at the Galerie Azzedine Alaïa (18, rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris; tel.: 01 42 72 19 19), “Grandi Legni,” features the latest fruits of the experimental work of renowned Italian designer Andrea Branzi, whose … Read More
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{youtubejw width=”300″ height=”200″}ort9gP6DMTE{/youtubejw} Paris’s Grand Palais has been turned into an indoor amusement park called Jours de Fêtes through Jan. 1, 2010. Favorite
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TEMPLE OF DEAD REOPENS Paris’s Catacombs, badly damaged by vandals in September, finally reopened last weekend, just in time for a Christmas visit to this underground ossuary, filled with carefully piled skulls and bones gathered from overflowing Parisian cemeteries since … Read More
Jours de Fêtes
PALACE OF FUN The 2005 version of Jours de Fêtes at the Grand Palais. Photo © Didier Plowy /Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Paris’s Grand Palais will be turned into a palace of fun for the Jours … Read More
I Remember Better When I Paint
I Remember Better When I Paint, a documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer’s, by Eric Ellena and Berna Huebner, will be screened in the Grand Salon (31, avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris) … Read More
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WORLD’S SMALLEST ART GALLERY? Nina Jäger’s North Sea videoon show at La Vitrine, an art gallery in a window. Artists Emma Malig and Fred Sapey-Triomphe have found an inspired way to give young artists exposure: they use a tall, narrow … Read More
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PARIS PHOTO ART FAIR Paris Photo, an annual photo fair, will present the work of some 500 photographers from around the world, shown by 89 galleries, at the Carrousel du Louvre Nov. 19-22. Favorite
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PHOTOS ON THE QUAY “Man in a Sola Hat, Bombay, 1985,” by Sooni Taraporevala. Here’s a great idea for a day when the fall weather is fine: go to the Musée du Quai Branly and cross over to the quay … Read More
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PHOTOS ON THE QUAY “Man in a Sola Hat, Bombay, 1985,” by Sooni Taraporevala. Here’s a great idea for a day when the fall weather is fine: go to the Musée du Quai Branly and cross over to the quay … Read More
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{youtubejw width=”335″}yMzY9eF4YNg{/youtubejw} Paris’s new public toilets (officially known as “automated public conveniences”) are handsomer than their bunker-like predecessors and are free, wheelchair-accessible and supposedly self-cleaning and hygienic (a close look at the video might make you think otherwise!). Favorite