Concrete Beauty inMajestic Structures The Palais d’Iéna in Paris. Photo © Benoît Fougeirol Exhibitions on architecture are always problematic. How can the scope of an architect’s work be effectively communicated to nonprofessionals, who don’t necessarily know Favorite
Interior Decoration Trends: Making and Re-Making “Workshop Secrets,” a display at Maison&Objet. Photo: Colin Eaton The theme for the January 2015 Maison&Objet trade show, held twice a year just outside Paris to showcase innovations in home accessories and furnishings, was … Read More
Beyond Cubism: The Whole Picture “Le Parc de Carrières-Saint-Denis” (1909-10). © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza © Adagp, Paris 2013 “Georges Braque,” one of Paris’s blockbuster autumn art exhibitions, opening today at the Grand Palais, walks us through nearly the whole career of … Read More
The Man Who Captured ‘The Beauty of Sinister Things’ Brassaï’s “Le Ruisseau qui Serpente” (1932-33). Brassaï is known as the master of night photography, and it is indeed those images that shine the brightest in the exhibition “Brassaï: For the … Read More
The French ‘Discover’Khmer Civilization Cast of a bas-relief from Angkor Vat (early 10th century). © D.R. The first section of the exhibition “Angkor: Birth of a Legend – Louis Delaporte and Cambodia” at Paris’s Asian museum, the Musée Guimet, is … Read More
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about Art Deco A Bugatti type 40 (1927) in front of the painting “Le Vin et la Vigne” (1925), by Jean Dupas. © Capa/Gaston Bergeret, 2013 The exhibition “1925: Art Deco Wins over the … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris AUTOPSY OF A TOWER BLOCK Michael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City, 2008-2013 © Magnum Photos The current show at Le Bal (6, Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris; tel.: 0033 1 44 70 … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris AUTOPSY OF A TOWER BLOCK Michael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City, 2008-2013 © Magnum Photos The current show at Le Bal (6, Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris; tel.: 0033 1 44 70 … Read More
All Attitude: Strike a Pose Clifford Coffin, American Vogue, June 1949 © 1949 Condé Nast The days of sniffing at fashion photography as a commercial offshoot of fine-art photography are long over, and “Coming into Fashion: A Century of Fashion … Read More
Paris Update Flash News MANHWA WITH A MESSAGE The South Korean Minister of Gender Equality and Family, Cho Yoonsun, is counting on “the power of art” to draw attention to the “comfort women,” Korean, Japanese and Filipino women who were … Read More
