Gestalt Circus Third-year circus students keep their heads down. Photo © Philippe Cibille Working with theater director Georges Lavaudant, former director of the Théâtre de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, a dozen 20-something third-year students at the Centre … Read More
What Is Art? Nineteenth-century sugar silos from Southern Kerala, India. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian, Centre Pompidou After a recent visit to the Barnes Foundation and the nearby home of a private collector just outside Philadelphia, both of which demonstrated just how … Read More
Better than Happy Pills Down-to-earth food in a warm, friendly venue. If you have euros in your pocket that haven’t been exchanged from another currency (i.e., the dollar or sterling), the best place to be right now for eating is … Read More
Chipped-Formica Heaven The pot au feu was on its last legs. Paris has more restaurants named Chez Léon than you can shake a stick at, but one of them stands out from the crowd. Not for any reasons of culinary … Read More
Paris by the Sea “Sailboats in Sète” (1924). © Adagp, Paris 2008 What better way to spend a couple of hours on a winter day in Paris than looking at pretty pictures of the sea at the Musée National de … Read More
Kitsch Coming Out Tadrina Hocking as Sandra and Simon Hubert as Tony. Beautiful Thing, Jonathan Harvey’s seminal work about the coming together and coming out of two teenage boys living in public housing in southeast London is something of an … Read More
Seeing Is Believing “USA, Alabama, Anniston, Woman in Training” (1977) by Mary Ellen Mark. © Mary Ellen Mark The exhibition “Seventies: Le Choc de la Photographie Américaine,” in its final days at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, may tell us … Read More
Islanders Vindicated Moaï Papa. © Galerie Louise Leiris Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, has always exerted a strong fascination: a tiny “lost” island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 2,000 kilometers from the nearest land, it was home to … Read More
Standout Antidote to Holiday Excesses During the Christmas and New Year holidays, the French traditionally live on a life-threatening diet of oysters, foie gras and smoked salmon, washed down with plentiful quantities of champagne and topped off with chocolates. During … Read More
Convulsive Beauty “Portrait of Space” (1937). © Lee Miller Archives, England 2008. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk What a life Lee Miller led! The exhibition now on at the Jeu de Paume tells us rather more about its fascinations than about … Read More
