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The best exhibitions of this autumn
The autumn is a season which leaves nobody indifferent. Either we love it, for its melancholic landscapes and for some traditions, or we love it not at all, because it is the announcement of the winter and because days are much shorter and the holidays are already just a souvenir. […]
Richter’s claim of painting
“I do not intend to obey any system, any tendency ; I have neither program, nor style, nor claim. I like uncertainty, I like infinity and ongoing insecurity”, wrote Gerhard Richter. The exhibition we can currently see at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris is a retrospective celebration for the […]
Poor Botticelli!
For a significant number of visitors, and even tourist guides or art lecturers, in my opinion, there is a sort of “Bermuda Triangle” in Le Louvre Museum- formed by the Winged Victory of Samothrace, Milo’s Venus and the Mona Lisa, who outshine all the rest of the Museum. Three works […]
The Orsay Museum’s renaissance
Colorful walls and designer chandeliers, dark oak parquet: this is not one of Philippe Starck’s latest restaurants but the newly refurbished Orsay Museum. Twenty-five years ago, architect Gae Aulenti made a bold statement with his stone decor and floors and vanilla-colored walls. The current zeitgeist points to a greater comfort […]
My FIAC’s assessment
The mood was unexpectedly buoyant at the Grand Palais in Paris on Thursday October 20th, the opening day of the 38th International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC). Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the vaulted glass roof of the Beaux-Arts hall, or the vast quantities of modern and contemporary art […]
Art exhibitions of the autumn in Paris
Among the possible purposes of this Blog, one of the most important it is to provide information on all events in the world of the art which I get to know about! Paris being a major place in the world of art, this first list of exhibitions of the autumn […]
Paris will always stay in us… and London, New York, Berlin,…
When I started this blog in May 2011, the first article was entitled “Paris will always stay in us “. It seems that changing you is a sign of wisdom, or is typical of persons who did not too much think before dashing into an action, then it seems to […]
Paris will always stay in us …
For decades the Europeans, and we Catalans do not make an exception to it, considered Paris as the lighthouse for art, transgression and creativity … It is true that after World War 2 and particularly during the 70s, Paris had lost some of this image. A loss of visibility which […]