Guest post from our friends at ParisFrance.com This week the Center Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, at 39 Boulevard de La Tour Maubourg in Paris celebrates the outstanding black-and-white photography by Gerard Castello-Lopez. Castello-Lopez was born in Vichy in 1925 and soon found two passions: photography and the underwater world. His stunning images are on exhibit until [...]

Never been to the Pompidou Center? The lines for admission can be daunting. Here’s an armchair tour, thanks to Paris on Demand.

Sooner or later, we know, we will end up having lunch at the Cantine in the BHV (Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville). It’s central. It’s inexpensive. The food is good. The view from the big windows is magnificent. And of all the Paris department stores, it’s the most approachable. It’s not as big as Galeries Lafayette, [...]

It is said of Ginger Rogers that she did everything Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels. Similarly, Berthe Morisot did everything her fellow French Impressionist painters did, but in a corset and with a chaperone beside her. An exhibit at the Musée Marmottan (on view until July 1, 2012) reveals her massive talent, which [...]

Former French President Georges Pompidou was an art lover. He pushed hard to launch the establishment of a museum dedicated to modern art in the center of Paris. This is how Centre Georges Pompidou, or Beaubourg, as it is usually called, was born. François Mitterand, the French President from 1981 to 1995, commissioned the building [...]

If you are unable to get to the amazing show of Eugene Atget’s early 20th century photography of Paris (at the Musee Carnavalet), make sure to peep this trailer (scroll down) for a film by Swim Cinema, which features plenty of amazing images and an interview with Berenice Abbott, the noted American photographer who was [...]

Light speaks. And its voice is perhaps never as strong and clear as in the City of Light. La Maison Rouge, the exquisite art space and foundation in the Bastille quarter of Paris, is proving it with Neon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue? Curated by David Rosenberg, this illuminated carnival of flashing and glowing colored [...]

The small but powerful Helmut Newton exhibition at the Grand Palais is a eye-opener, and not just because of his favorite subject matter, bodacious naked ladies. The show includes portraits of the famous and infamous, groundbreaking fashion photography, and perhaps most surprisingly, some sentimental images. Tidbits: Born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1920, [...]

Amazing short film on Paris-based fashion and furniture designer Rick Owens and his muse and wife Michele Lamy. Make sure to watch to the end—after the credits—for the secret to one of Michele’s unusual beauty habits.

I loved the book from the exhibition Dynamic Beauty: Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris. But for a review I thought I would lean on a more learned source: Natalie Fasano from the site The Curated Object. Her article from The Curated Object is cross-posted below. Dynamic Beauty: Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris, produced by the [...]