Cultivating Art in the Country From Pascal Bernier’s “Hunting Accident” series. What’s the last thing you would expect to find deep in the heart of the French countryside on, of all places, the campus of an agricultural high school surrounded … Read More
Rodin’s “Iris Messagère des Dieux” Photo: Christian Baraja. Since it opened its stripped-down chapel as a temporary exhibition space a few years ago, the Musée Rodin has put on a series of carefully curated exhibitions that not only … Favorite
Marcel Dzama’s “Banks of the Red River.” Do isolation and frigid winters breed good art? Apparently so, judging from the just-opened “My Winnipeg” exhibition at the Maison Rouge. Living in the world’s coldest … Favorite
A whistling vase (250-550) from Kaminaljuyu. Photo © Ricky Lopez Bruni The mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization has never been satisfactorily explained – was it caused by internal warfare, invasion, environmental … Favorite
“La Gare Saint-Lazare” by Claude Monet. © RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski It’s a shame that the exhibition “Paris aux Temps des Impressionnistes” is closing at the end of July, since this stimulating show at the Hôtel de Ville is … … Read More
“Le Pont Tournant de Dieppe” by Olivier Mériel. Dieppe’s charms are not obvious, and that is precisely the major attraction of this slightly down-at-the-heels northern French seaside resort, battered over the centuries by … Favorite
The Boucicaut Master’s “Departure of Louis IX for the Crusade.” © RMN /Thierry Le Mage Numerous acts of vandalism have made possible the Louvre’s exhibition “Medieval and Renaissance Illuminations: Painting on the Page,” as the medieval scholar who … … Read More
Jake & Dinos Chapman’s “Sex I” (2003). © Jake & Dinos Chapman. Courtesy White Cube Gallery, London. Photo: Stephen White “Memories of the Future,” the current exhibition at the Maison Rouge/Foundation Antoine Galbert, explores certain themes as treated by … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris LADIES OF THE PALACE Photo: Princewel Eklu The Chinese artist Jia Juanli has lived in Paris for the last 19 years, but her mind is decidedly elsewhere. An exhibition of her work, “A … Read More
French GagosianLikes to Provoke “Nasutamanus” (2012), by Daniel Firman. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli Emmanuel Perrotin, France’s answer to Larry Gagosian, is celebrating his Paris-based gallery’s 25th anniversary with a major exhibition, “Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin,” Favorite
