Paris Update Art Notes PICASSO IN SITU Pablo Picasso: “Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe d’après Manet”(1961). © Succession Picasso 2012 © Réunion des Musées Nationaux © Musée National Picasso-Paris With the Picasso Museum in Paris closed for renovation until 2013, the … Read More
RESTAURANT NEWS According to Restaurant Magazine’s San Pellegrino ranking of the world’s top 50 restaurants, announced on April 21, the giants are still Ferran Adrià of El Bulli and Heston Blumenthal of the UK’s Fat Duck, who once again came … Read More
FALL OPENING FOR SPRING BOUTIQUE Fans of Daniel Rose’s Spring will have to content themselves with the boutique until the new Paris restaurant opens in March. Daniel Rose shot to fame in a very short time with his tiny Spring … Read More
Walter Benjamin’s passport photo, c. 1928. There are a fair number of reasons that you might be drawn to the Marais for the current exhibition at Le Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme. You’re the … Favorite
The legendary Georges Brassens in concert in 1966. © Jean-Pierre Leloir Georges Brassens’ moustache is at least as well known to the French as Astérix’s and, in many ways, Brassens is as popular in France today as he was 40 … Read More
DOUBLE-BARRELED MAGNUM “Haiti” by Bruce Gilden. © Magnum Photos Magnum, the legendary photo collective, has opened a second gallery (at 13, rue de l’Abbaye, 75006 Paris) on the Left Bank in the former exhibition space of the photography publisher Robert … Read More
LACROIX LOOKS TO THE ORIENT Christian Lacroix examines some of the garments. © Musée du Quai Branly. Photo: Thierry Ollivier, Michel Urtado The colorful exhibition “L’Orient des Femmes Vu par Christian Lacroix” at the Musée du Quai Branly shows how … Read More
A ring by Edéenne on show at the Musée National de la Légion d’Honneur. The Quebecois artist Edéenne is showing 120 exquisitely crafted pieces of jewelry in a show entitled “Unique”in the historic setting of the Musée National de la … Read More
Taffeta sandals with wooden soles by Dunand, 1941. © E. Emo & S. Piera/Galliera/Roger-Viollet Who knew that there was a museum dedicated to the French Resistance and the Liberation of Paris in, of all places, the Gare Montparnasse? That … Read More
Taffeta sandals with wooden soles by Dunand, 1941. © E. Emo & S. Piera/Galliera/Roger-Viollet Who knew that there was a museum dedicated to the French Resistance and the Liberation of Paris in, of all places, the Gare Montparnasse? That surprise … Read More
