Paris Update
ART FAIRS
ART FAIRS Slick Dessin March 28-30 Atelier Richelieu 60, rue Richelieu, 75002 Paris Métro: Bourse Salon du Dessin March 25-30 Palais de la Bourse Place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris Métro: Bourse Salon du Dessin Contemporain March 26-29 Carreau du … Read More
Flash News ART old site
ARTPARIS The artparis modern and contemporary art fair opens tomorrow, March 19 and runs through March 23, with 115 French and foreign galleries under the gorgeous glass dome of the Grand Palais. Some of the best work this year is … Read More
Flash News ART
ARTPARIS The artparis modern and contemporary art fair opens tomorrow, March 19 and runs through March 23, with 115 French and foreign galleries under the gorgeous glass dome of the Grand Palais. Some of the best work this year is … Read More
Flash News ART
ARTPARIS The artparis modern and contemporary art fair opens tomorrow, March 19 and runs through March 23, with 115 French and foreign galleries under the gorgeous glass dome of the Grand Palais. Some of the best work this year is … Read More
Favorite Paris Scams
Favorite Paris Scams To hear the fraudsters tell it, the streets of Paris really are paved with gold. One of the great things about living in a city is being able to watch charlatans at work. I grew up in … Read More
THE PRICE OF A CUP OF COFFEE
THE PRICE OF A CUP OF COFFEE Since value-added tax on restaurant bills will soon drop from 19.6% to 5.5%, the French Ministry of the Economy has sponsored a survey of current prices in 2,500 French restaurants and cafés to … Read More
Flash News HOME
EGALITE? Some interesting statistics came out on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, the most disturbing being that French women’s average gross annual salary is 18.9 percent lower than that of men in the private and semi-public … Read More
SUNDAY SONGS
SUNDAY SONGS Alexandre (Castagnetti) and Clément (Marchand), two scruffy, good-natured thirty-something French musicians, have won the hearts of the French with their Chansons du Dimanche, bouncy, humorous songs composed and recorded on Saturday – often while the pair sits cross-legged … Read More
ROOM WITH A VIEW
ROOM WITH A VIEW No, a flying saucer has not landed on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo; that green capsule perched atop the contemporary art museum is the Everland, a temporary one-room futuristic hotel designed by Swiss artists … Read More
Dame de Canton
PIRATE A LADY AGAIN It may look ancient, but the authentic Chinese junk moored near the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand was built only 30 years ago by two Frenchman who then sailed it around the world for 15 years. In 1995, … Read More