While Paris’s seasonal crop of exhibitions, theater and music clamors for attention, the numerous national and religious cultural centers of Paris yield their fruit year-round to lesser fanfare. These centers welcome members and outside visitors [...]
There’s a fall ritual in Paris by which inhabitants of the city and its more upscale suburbs seek redemption from the sloth and nudity of summer by worshiping in the numerous temples of art and [...]
On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian laborer living in Paris. Now, 100 years later, a new documentary puts together the missing pieces of the theft and of the life of the thief. Read this exclusive interview with the filmmaker.
July 4, 2011 – France Revisited celebrates the Fourth of July with a photo reportage of the major Statues of Liberty in Paris, along with the author’s homegrown version. Here below is the original 1/16th plaster [...]
“There’s nothing to see here,” he says before we enter room #5 at the Auberge Ravoux, the inn where Vincent Van Gogh lived and died at Auvers-sur-Oise, 18 miles northwest of Paris. “There’s nothing to [...]
Little by little over the coming decade Paris as we think of it will spread out from the confines of its peripheral boulevards and embrace its neighboring suburbs in the creation of Grand Paris, Greater Paris. [...]
The more I bone up on the names of great French cabinetmakers, ponder the decorative needs of French nobility, and peruse catalogues and press kits, the more I appreciate the precious objects of the Museum of Decorative Arts. But my attention is waning, quickly.
Nov. 2008 — Paris has pulled out all the stops to examine how Picasso looked at and dialogued with the greats that preceded him: Picasso and the Masters at the Grand Palais,Picasso/Delacroix at the Louvre, Picasso/Manet at the [...]
The time is long gone when France could create a great museum by simply beheading the king, gathering his royal art collection in the old palace of the Louvre and declaring it open to the public.
