With entrepreneurial mega-art dealer Larry Gagosian (pictured) opening what will be his ninth gallery worldwide, just off the Champs-Élysées during FIAC, Paris’ October contemporary art fair, it would appear that the city is making a revival as a new force in the international art market. Gauging by the powerhouse programs galleries have planned for fall, Paris [...]
If it has been Armageddon for the art market lately, one upshot is that places are opening for newer artists where one wouldn’t expect. On the rue Guénéguad in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, you can find African art, design furniture, and fashion-edge photography, but also painter Denis Gérablie, 40, who this spring [...]
Louis Aragon had a long life. Born in 1897, he died in 1982 at the age of 85.
‘Aragon et l’art moderne,’ the exhibition currently on display at the Musée de la Poste is a necessarily selected survey from a long career as a poet, novelist, journalist and long-time friend and collaborator to some of the 20th century’s [...]
This is not a new subject in my blogs… The sun has been taking a big ole dump on my outdoor plans for quite a while now. If the degree of my whiteness is any indicator, we are currently at code ALBINO, (ALERT! ALERT! Entering sunlight may cause spontaneous combustion!), and I feel like that burning ball [...]
After so many years in Paris, there are still buildings that I have passed by a thousands times without knowing what was to be found in them! In this particular case, I’m talking about the Mona Bismarck Foundation, a magnificent building located on Avenue de New York. Guess what it’s made of? Buttons! And they have [...]
A Paris Blog reader named Charles has sent in this strange tale of a Picasso sculpture that was supposed to depict someone else…
After World War II, the Paris municipal council wanted to put up a monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, the French poet who was also Picasso’s friend. Picasso was insistent that he create the small [...]
Paris is known for its rather graphic statues hidden throughout its many gardens. This one is almost covered by the leaves in the Square Paul Painlevé, in the 5th (right in front of the Cluny Musée National du Moyen Age). It’s La Louve Romaine (The Roman Wolf), representing the legendary birth of Rome with Romulus and Remus [...]
This wall art is on Rue Saint-Martin a few blocks north of Rue de Rivoli. I walked by when the two people in the photo were adding to the abstract art. There are thin strings on the wall and the “painters” place white dots along the string to create the circular art.
More of de Gaulle! They installed a huge portrait of him on the Hotel de Ville building and it’s really impressive. What’s even more impressive is that this portrait is actually a mosaic. It made of 1038 other portraits, the ones of the Compagnons de la Libération, that is people who played a role in the [...]
La Tour Eiffel, that instantly recognizable industrial mirage, was never intended to stay. Built as a temporary installation for the Exposition Universelle of 1889 to stun, outrage and amaze, this flight of fancy has become an indelible symbol of it’s birthplace. Across town in another controversial construction, the Pompidou Center museum show Dreamlands explores the [...]
