Centuries of Stereotypes Perpetrated by Artists ”L’Homme à la Pipe” (1846), a self-portrait by Gustave Courbet. © RMN/Agence Bulloz The Grand Palais opened another of its entertaining and informative themed exhibitions last week. “Bohemians” starts out with an investigation of … Read More
Japan Imagined by Hiroshige and Van Gogh Van Gogh’s ”Oliveraie” (1889). © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands The Pinacothèque de Paris has just opened two complementary exhibitions, “Hiroshige, l’Art du Voyage” and “Van Gogh, Rêves de Japon.” The first … Read More
Only in America:Anomie on Parade Edward Hopper’s “Office at Night” (1940). © Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The big event of Paris’s fall art season, “Edward Hopper” at the Grand Palais, opened last week. Hopper’s most iconic paintings — notably “Nighthawks” — … Read More
Reality Revised,For Better or Worse Yinka Shonibare: ”The Pursuit” (2007). Photo: Peter Cox, Eindhoven.© Rabo Art Collection Good news: Paris’s Institut Néerlandais (Dutch Institute), recently threatened with closure by the Dutch government, has been given a reprieve, which means it … Read More
Egyption Art Lives On asCivilization Declines The Berlin ”Green Head,” from the Ptolemaic Period (c. 350 B.C.E.) © SMB Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung. Photo: Sandra Steiß The new exhibition at Paris’s Musée Jacquemart-André, “Le Crépuscule des Pharaons: Chefs-d’œuvre des Dernières … Read More
Art and Culture Shake Up Provincial City Jean-Luc Courcoult’s ”La Maison dans la Loire.” Photo © Gino Maccarinelli In Nantes, it is not uncommon to run into Parisians who have fled the French capital for the pleasant city on the … Read More
Where Life Begins, on The Edge of the Sea ”Evolution” (2005) by Marc Quinn. © T. Ameller – Musée Océanographique de Monaco 2012 Versailles is doing it. The Louvre is doing it. Many of France’s once-hidebound traditional museums have taken … Read More
Cool Wool,Cold Beauty ”Untitled” (2010) by Christopher Wool. The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris continues its eclectic and sometimes adventurous program of modern and contemporary art shows featuring artists and Favorite
The Glittering World ofMadame Verdurinska “Misia Natanson en Robe Noire” (1896-97). Anonymous © Archives Vuillard, Paris Few women can claim to have led lives as glamorous as that of Misia Sert (1872-1950), who was not only a friend, muse and … Read More
Explaining Art in War Is an Uphill Battle Picasso’s ”L’Aubade” (”Tombstone,” 1942). © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN/Christian Bahier/Philippe Migeat © Succession Picasso 2012 “L’Art en Guerre” (“Art in Wartime”) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris … Read More
