George Desvallières (1861-1950) is one of those bygone French painters blessed with a long, successful career but whose work has been more or less forgotten. The reason may be that, although he was a highly talented painter who absorbed many … Read More
If you are craving something fishy but don’t feel like dropping a fortune on a pricey seafood restaurant, hurry to Les Moussaillons, a small oyster bar that goes against the tide of most Paris restaurants, which typically offer one or two fish choices amid a plethora of meat dishes (although that is rapidly changing).
One of the many things the Centquatre cultural center has going for it is space, such a rare commodity in Paris. Artists exhibiting there have plenty of room to spread out if they so desire. In the new show, “Matérialité … Read More
Cities, seen through the eyes of two camera-wielding artists, Daido Moriyama and Fernell Franco, are the subject of new exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain. Two phrases written by María Wills Londoño about Franco for the catalog of … Read More
When I heard there was a new restaurant in the 10th arrondissement specializing in porridge, I had to go right away. I love my breakfast oatmeal, sometimes sweetened and sometimes salted, but I had never thought of having it for lunch or dinner.
We humans are so vain that we like to see representations of ourselves everywhere and attribute our own thoughts and emotions to other creatures. “Persona: Strangely Human,” a new exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly, explores this anthropomorphizing tendency … Read More
I don’t usually pay much attention to the press releases I receive, but I was intrigued by one that arrived in my inbox recently for a one-star Michelin restaurant, Jacques Faussat, formerly La Braisière
The wine bar La Cave du Paul Bert is so new that the sign painter was still tracing out letters on the front windows when we arrived last week. Judging by the meal we had, however, you would never have known that this was a new restaurant, so assured was the preparation of each creative dish we tasted.
It is strangely quiet now in the newly renovated Rodin Museum, located in the 18th-century Hôtel Biron. The handsome Versailles parquet, now shored up to support the weight of the master’s heavy statues, makes nary a squeak (it used to … Read More
Once upon a time, Thoumieux was a much-loved brasserie with a wonderful, rather rundown old-fashioned decor and mediocre food. Whenever I found myself in the seventh arrondissement with a group of friends, it was the fallback restaurant; they all wanted to go there.
