British artist David Hockney turned 80 this month but is still as productive and eclectic as ever, as evidenced by a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris through October 23. Following up on the hugely successful Hockney show this … Read More
Fans of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) are in for a real treat this summer, with the Musée d’Orsay in Paris featuring the artist’s portraits; the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny, Switzerland, holding a major exhibition of mostly landscapes, “Le Chant de … Read More
The French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, who created the baubles for the jewel-like Palais Royal Métro entrance in Paris and who was the first artist chosen in over 300 years to create a new permanent sculptural fountain in the gardens of … Read More
At the Villa Datris, a foundation for contemporary sculpture in picturesque L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, in the Vaucluse region of Provence, this year’s summer exhibition explores nature in its multitude of facets – peaceful, tumultuous, marvellous and disquieting, ranging from the Garden of … Read More
THIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED, REPLACED BY CODA. “Worth a detour,” the expression made famous by the Michelin Guides, definitely applies to the new restaurant Détour, located in Paris’s ninth arrondissement. What is really cool, however, is that the word … Read More
On the face of it, André Derain (1880-1954), Balthus (1908-2001) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) would seem to have little in common, but it turns out that the three artists were lifelong friends, beginning around 1933, and had a not-insubstantial influence on each other’s work. The … Read More
While some of the works in the exhibition “Grand Trouble” (“Big Trouble”) at the Halle Saint Pierre are indeed troubling (I am thinking, for example, of Olivier Estoppey’s frightening concrete sculptures of baying wolves or Marc Prudent’s heartrending photos of people sleeping … Read More
After seeing “From Zurbarán to Rothko: The Alicia Koplowitz Collection” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, I sat down to read about the collection of Spanish billionairess Alicia Koplowitz and quickly became fascinated with her life, fittingly described by a French magazine as … Read More
They were both artists who lived and worked in fin-de-siècle Paris. Both showed at the ground-breaking 1904 Salon d’Automne, cradle of almost every major art movement of the early 20th century. Though they may not have known one another, they … Read More
The glorious millennium of the Venetian Republic came to a definitive end in 1797 with Napoleon’s invasion and the forced abdication of the doge. Even in its final days during the 18th century, however, the city, flush after several decades of … Read More
