Archive for the ‘Paris’ Category
Pakistani Art at Asia Society (NY Times) Painting the Ancient, Invisible Dream: Aboriginal Art (NY Times) All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle (NY Times) Hollywood Justice: The Roman Polanski Drama (WSJ) The Artist and the Director: Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst (WSJ) Fleshy Nudes Abound in Paris Show of Late Renoir Works: […]
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America, Captured in a Flash by Robert Frank (NY Times) Art Among Friends is Up for Sale (NY Times) The Angel in the Architecture: Kandisky at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Behind Duchamp’s Door at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (WSJ) Hockney, Wolfe, Mailer Draw Themselves in Quirky Portraits Sale (Bloomberg) Kapoor Fires Canon, Makes Mess […]
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Tags: Anish Kapoor, Christie's, David Hockney, Guggenheim, Kandisky, Korean art, LACMA, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Mailer, Pacific Design Center, Paris, party pics, Robert Frank, Royal Academy, top 5 museum shows
At Louvre Many Stop to Snap but Few Stay to Focus (NY Times) For Annie Leibovitz, a Funny Financial Picture (NY Times) Auction Houses and Their Taboos (NY Times) Summer Reading: Secrets of the Art Experts (WSJ) Whose Art Is It Anyway? (WSJ) D’Orsay Comes to De Young (ARTINFO) Robert Fontenot on Recycling LACMA (ARTINFO) […]
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by Emily Waldorf Sterile glass and concrete cubes are the first thing that come to mind when thinking of typical spaces for exhibiting contemporary art. This is not the case in Paris, where contemporary art exhibitions are often displayed in classical hôtels particuliers alongside paintings and sculpture that spans the centuries. A hôtel particulier is […]
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Gourmet Paris, the Remix
By Emily Waldorf Many people have preconceived notions about French food. They think it is too rich, too precious, and served by rude waiters that present them with a heart palpitatingly expensive bill, when they really would have rather had Italian. Members of the anti-French cuisine camp have most likely either fallen prey to tourist traps […]
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Tags: Fauchon, gourmand, Grande Epicerie du Bon Marche, Hediard, L, L'As du Fallafel, L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, Le Timbre, Paris, Patricia Wells, Pierre Herme, rue des Rosiers, top places to eat, top restaurants, Ze Kitchen Galerie
An Offering Fit for the Emperors (NY Times) Femininity Salvaged: Lillian Bassman’s Photographs (NY Times) Hundreds Try Out for Art-World Reality Show (NY Times) Modern Maison de Verre in Paris (WSJ) Banksy Works Vanish From Auctions As Demands Drop for Urban Art (Bloomberg) Watts Towers Restoration (ARTINFO) Party Pics: Chinatown Art Walk (ARTINFO) Party Pics: […]
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Tags: Art Walk, art world reality show, Banksy, Chinatown, Lillian Bassman, Los Angeles, Los Angeles gallery openings, Maison de Verre, Paris, restoration, Sarah Jessica Parker, urban art, Watts Towers
Use Their Work Free? Some Artists Say No To Google (NY Times) A Thriftier Lot Comes To Basel This Year (NY Times) A New Concept in Handling Art (NY Times Global Edition) Transforming the Louvre in Uncertain Times (NY Times Global Edition) OCMA Sells paintings to private collector, prompting criticism (LA Times) Window Shoppers: Seasoned […]
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ArtsÉtoile.com is delighted to announce that our contributor, Suzanne Lenzer, will be writing a weekly column called “Amuse Bouche: Weekly Musings on Food & Life,” every Thursday. With a degree from the Institute of Culinary Education and working side by side with The New York Times‘ Mark Bittman, as a food writer and stylist, Suzanne is a […]
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Tags: Chez Panisse, Chocolate & Zucchini, Clotilde Dusoulier, David Lebovitz, Edith Piaf, France, Institute of Culinary Education, Le Jour du Macaron, macaron, macaroon, Madeleine Peyroux, Paris
East in the Eye of This Beholder: Kamrooz Aram’s New Orientalism (NY Times) Getty Ex-Curator, Marion True, Testifies in Rome Antiquities Trial (NY Times) Graffiti Artists Hold Panel With Old Nemeses in Blue (NY Times) Stories Found in the Streets: Paul Graham at MOMA (WSJ) A Victorian Novel Set in Stone: British Houses of […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Asia Week, David Kusin, Getty antiquities trial, Grand Palais, Kamrooz Aram, Marion True, orientalism, party pics, Paul Graham, Rubens, SF MoMA, William Kentridge
Pulling Art Sales Out of Thinning Air: Gagosian Gallery (NY Times) Art of the Computer Generation at the New Museum (NY Times) Beyond the Armory: Volta, Pulse, and Scope Slideshow (NY Times) L.A.’s Artistic Iconoclasts: “Nine Lives” at the Hammer (LA Times) Strong Suit: Armor in the Art Market (WSJ) Optimism Ahead of Maastricht Fair […]
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Tags: Armory, art fair, auction sabotage, Bridge, Chinese bronzes, Gagosian Gallery, Hammer Museum, Maastricht, New Museum, Nine Lives, opium, party pics, Pulse, Scope, Volta, YSL auction