TAKE A STRANGE MAN HOME TONIGHT If you are walking down the street anywhere in the world and are approached by a slight, handsome man wearing a red shirt and a strange contraption fitted with three cameras pointing at you, … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris PRIVATE VIEW“The Secret Garden,” a group exhibition of works by Korean contemporary artists, among them video artist Yongbaek Lee, photographer Beomsik Won and painter “Between Red-167” (2012), by Seahyun Lee. Seahyun Lee, opens this … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris CUTTING-EDGE ART IN THE BURBSGalerie Thaddaeus Ropac & Gagosian Gallery: Two of the leading contemporary art galleries in Paris are opening new spaces outside of the city. The Ropac Ropac’s new gallery in Pantin. … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris WALKING DRAMAArc-en-Noir: Kosovo-Kosova: A walking play in the Parc de Belleville about a young woman in Kosovo. Written and directed by Kassia Aleksic. Meet at 45, rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris. June 22, 4pm-6pm; … Read More
Paris Update Secret Paris The Square Hector Berlioz today, a popular site for film shoots. On her frequent trips to Paris, National Public Radio journalist Susan Stamberg likes to visit the setting of a favorite painting and compare current reality … Read More
SAVE THE SWEDISH CULTURAL CENTEROne of the more magical places in Paris, the Swedish Cultural Center (now called the Swedish Institute) in the Marais, is threatened with closure because of government budget cuts. Anyone who has taken advantage of its … Read More
Mathieu Mercier’s “Cage à Oiseaux.” The French city of Nantes is one of the last destinations you would consider for a safari, unless you were on the hunt for works of animal-themed art, currently the … Favorite
“Untitled” (2009), one of Miquel Barceló’s paintings on termite-eaten paper. © Miquel Barceló/ADAGP Miquel Barceló, like Pablo Picasso, is a natural-born artist, working with enormous ease, superhuman energy and great versatility. Just as Picasso could look at … Favorite
Home at the Château One of the sitting rooms where guests can mingle or have a quiet drink. The Villa Saint Victor, a hilltop château-hotel in Provence, is not the ancestral residence of Geoffroy and Stéphane Vieljeux’s family, but the … Read More
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
