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ART FAIRS

March 24, 2009 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

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

March 17, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

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

March 17, 2009 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

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

March 17, 2009 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

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

March 10, 2009 | By Paris Update | Tales of la Ville

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

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

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

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

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

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

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

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

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

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | What's New Eat & Drink

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