It’s May 2018, 50 years after the “events” of May 1968, and commemorative exhibitions are popping up all over Paris. The Hôtel de Ville alone has two exhibitions: outside on the fence is “Quand 68 Prend la Parole,” a show featuring reproductions … Read More
I am no fan of the company JCDecaux, which has littered Paris with advertising panels, but the city of Paris seems to have made a bad decision when it replaced Decaux’s subsidiary Cyclocity as the concessionaire for the Vélib’ bike-sharing … Read More
“Je Suis Couturier,” an exhibition paying tribute to the beloved fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, who died at the age of 82 last November, is on show in the designer’s former home and studio in Paris’s Marais through June 10. Alaïa, … Read More
“La Collection Bic,” an exhibition at Paris’s Centquatre cultural center, shows us a new facet of the humble Bic pen, which, along with its relatives the Bic lighter and razor, have been a familiar part of our lives for decades. … Read More
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the painting of Picasso’s “Guernica,” Paris’s Picasso Museum has put together an absorbing exhibition that dissects the symbolism of the monumental work and explores in detail its genesis and influence. “Guernica” was the Spanish-born … Read More
The exhibition “Kupka: Pioneer of Abstraction” at the Grand Palais takes us on a fascinating journey through one artist’s evolution from figurative painting to the radical modernity of pure abstraction. For me, the exhibition was even more exciting since I … Read More
Visiting the three exhibitions of the work of Gérard Garouste currently on show in Paris is like taking a tour of the artist’s unconscious as expressed through philosophical, literary, mythological and religious themes. Collectively called “Zeugma,” the shows are being … Read More
The exhibition “Tintoretto: Birth of a Genius” at the Musée du Luxembourg concentrates on the early career of the exuberant Venetian Mannerist painter Jacopo Tintoretto (né Robusti), who painted fast, fluently and furiously. Tintoretto (c. 1518-94) was ambitious and hardworking, … Read More
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), whose work is on show at the Musée Maillol in “Foujita: Painting in the Roaring Twenties,” seems to have led a charmed life. The son of a Japanese general, he was attracted at an early age to … Read More
French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) is and was in his lifetime known primarily for his brilliant landscapes. The current exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet, “Corot: The Painter and His Models” looks at a different side of his work, focusing … Read More
