THIRTY YEARS OF FRENCH DESIGN View of the VIA exhibition. © Hervé Véronèse, Centre Pompidou, 2009 Less than two weeks left to see an entertaining design show at the Centre Pompidou, “VIA Design 3.0” (through Feb. 1; free admission), celebrating … Read More
LAON CATHEDRAL UP CLOSE This tiny exhibition in the upper reaches of the superb Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (1 Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris) is an absolute must, if only for what is says about the redemptive power … Read More
WORK LESS, EARN MORE French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand struck a blow against censorship last week when he ordered Paris’s Ecole des Beaux Arts to reinstall a set of banners created by artist Ko Siu Lan that it had … Read More
AMERICAN ART IN PARIS An exhibition of American art, “American Artists: New Perspectives, Linking Cultures and Crossing Boundaries,” curated by the U.S. State Department’s Arts in Embassies program, will open at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Unesco, David … Read More
NEW PARIS MUSEUM French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday that a new museum, the Maison de l’Histoire de France, would open in Paris’s Marais in the handsome 18th-century mansion, the Hôtel de Rohan-Soubise, currently home to the Archives Nationales. The … Read More
SAVE COLETTE’S HOME A number of French celebrities, including actors Mathieu Amalric and Carole Bouquet, and singer Juliette, will participate in a benefit performance of readings, film excerpts and music at the Théâtre du Châtelet (tel.: 01 40 28 28 … Read More
Paris Celebrates the Art of Drawing “A Palace and a Row of Houses behind a Town Wall” (c. 1560/70?), by Giovanni Antonio Dosio (?). © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main The Fondation Custodia, itself the keeper of a treasure trove … Read More
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Django MeetsNew Orleans in Paris Evan Christopher, New Orleans-based leader of Django à la Créole. Evan Christopher, a New Orleans-based clarinetist and band leader, is bringing his Django à la Créole project to Paris’s Duc des Lombards club, Favorite
Suburban Jazz Hot Marc Ribot, one of the featured artists at the 2005 Banlieues Bleues festival. The French have a longstanding love affair with jazz, and Paris still has a number of fine jazz clubs featuring big international names and … Read More
