Tag: museums
3 French Sculptors Met at the Met: Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle
Considerations on coming upon narrative sculptures by three great French sculptors, Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .
The Dutch Golden Age: A History Lesson Through Art
You might wonder why I haven’t chosen a painting by Rembrandt or Vermeer to illustrate an article about an exhibit entitled The Dutch Golden Age,...
A Brilliant Obsession: Color at the Marmottan Monet, Black at the Pompidou
The Marmottan Monet Museum is one of the undervisited glories of the museumscape of Paris, no doubt due to its location toward the western...
Mother and Son, Together and Apart, at the Pinacotheque de Paris
"It makes no sense to compare," Marc Restellini, director of the Pinacothèque de Paris in Paris told me when I asked him why Maurice...
GLK and WTI support the arts through “Vintage Paris” donation
Gary Lee Kraut and Words Travel International, Inc., publisher of France Revisited, are proud to announce their sponsorship of the arts in Philadelphia through...
GLK and WTI support the arts through “Vintage Paris” donation
Gary Lee Kraut and Words Travel International, Inc., publisher of France Revisited, are proud to announce their sponsorship of the arts in Philadelphia through...
The Spirits of Deco Past: Searching for Life in the Museum of Decorative Arts
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.
Van Dyck Portraits at the Jacquemart-André Museum
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...
Of Artists and Collectors: Six Museums for the Return Traveler
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.