One-Minute Paris The Stillness of the Luxembourg Garden in Winter
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}q7u80K_6LGo{/youtube} One-Minute Paris: The Luxembourg Garden is another, quieter world in wintertime. Click here to view on larger screen. Favorite
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Chung Tae-Sub
INNER BEAUTY “Melody on a Violin” (1990) by Chung Tae-Sub. Korean radiologist Chung Tae-Sub has turned his profession into his avocation, creating artworks that show off the inner beauty of various objects or find humor in the macabre, as in … Read More
Pomodoro
POMODORO IN PARIS “Sphere” (1990) by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro, one of Italy’s leading contemporary sculptors, known for his monumental polished-metal pieces that seem to be breaking up to reveal architectural worlds inside, are on show at the … Read More
La Gaîté Lyrique
OPENING OF THE GAITE LYRIQUE {youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}iVIcJZ4ah9g{/youtube} Scenes from the opening of the Gaîté Lyrique, Paris’s new “digital culture” center. The long-awaited Gaîté Lyrique, Paris’s new digital culture center, offers digital art exhibitions, free access to video games and … Read More
Graffcity
‘GRAFFCITY’ “Steel Reflecting Pool,” by Logan Hicks, in pencil and aerosol paint on board, on show in “Graffcity,” an exhibition of major street artists at the Opera Gallery through Feb. 25. Favorite
Galerie Laurent Mueller
WEAVING LINES A view of the Galerie Laurent Mueller in Paris. The spotlight is on drawing in Paris, with the Drawing Now art fair just finished and the Salon du Dessin and Chic Dessin (see “Events” below) just beginning. Paris … Read More
Museums Free for Some
MUSEUMS FREE FOR SOME It’s official: the permanent collections of French national museums and monuments – including Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Versailles and Mont-Saint-Michel, for example – will no longer charge admission to European residents under the age of 26 or … Read More
59Rivoli
TEMPLE OF ART CIVILIZED True to a Parisian tradition of appropriating and taming wildcat actions taken by its citizens (the weekly rollerblade outing is a good example – what started as an illegal run through Paris streets was taken over … Read More
McMona
MCMONA Is this the end of civilization as we know it? The privately owned food court in the Carrousel du Louvre, the underground shopping mall next to the museum, plans to open a McDonald’s outlet in December. Don’t forget, however, … Read More
Galerie Slott
PRELIMINARIES For its inauguration, Galerie Slott (12, rue du Château Landon, 75010 Paris; tel.: 01 40 36 07 18), a new, off-the-beaten-track design gallery founded by Paola Bjaringer, is holding an exhibition called “Préliminaires” (through Feb. 12), a lighthearted yet … Read More