Ecole des Arts Joailliers created by Van Cleef and Arpels, is discreetly housed behind place Vendôme in a posh building where security is high and the staff extremely graceful. It includes a school which anyone interested in gems can attend and a gallery for exhibitions. While entrance to the shows is free you have to register first before going. This … Read More
At Chantilly and Chaalis, flowers and Ingres have a ball
Since Alexis de Kermel has taken over the management of Abbaye de Chaalis three years ago, things are slowly changing in this medieval site where Primaticcio painted the ceiling of the chapel and Nélie Jacquemart spent her youth with her protector Rose Pamela de Vatry before buying it in 1902, nine years after her husband’s death. On June 9-11, les … Read More
At Templon, an irresistible Will Cotton and a renewed Chiharu Shiota
You are probably familiar by now with the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota who weaves strings and embroiders canvases in her Berlin studio. “Memory under the Skin” is the new in-situ installation at Galerie Templon rue du Grenier Saint Lazare, of woven works and clothes and now also of her hands as well as her husband’s and her daughter’s, sculpted in bronze … Read More
Trees, Trees, Trees, are trendy at Collection Pinault and at Documents 15
British artist Tacita Dean (born 1965) and German artist Gudrun Von Maltzan (born 1941) have nothing in common in their style but they both admire trees and I just happened to see both their exhibitions this week. The respect they show for very special trees is interesting. Tacita is at Bourse du Commerce and at Opéra Garnier with her decors … Read More
Louvre-Lens has another great show on Landscapes
It’s always a wonderful adventure to drive to Louvre Lens, because the building designed by SANAA is extraordinary and the exhibition of the Louvre treasures on 3000 square m is visible in one look. Over 5 000 years of objects, sculptures and paintings are shown in the Gallery of Time from the Egyptians to Napoleon in an easy, accessible and … Read More
At Musée Guimet, medicine comes from India, China and Tibet
Once again, Yannick Lintz, the unique President of Musée Guimet, surprised us in shocking pink with orange training shoes. She insisted in her presentation of the new exhibition “Médecines d’Asie” (Medicine from Asia), on her wish to attract everyone into the museum, not just people who like Asian art. For a new visiting experience, the scenography for this beautiful and … Read More
Three young printers are hosted at 100 rue de Charenton
I am an admirer of Ariane Fruit, a printer whom I met at Documents 15 for two of her exhibitions. She is showing until July 15 in a communal space, which I had never seen before, at 100 ECS, 100 rue de Charenton, between marché d’Aligre and Gare de Lyon. The show “Fragile Memories” includes two other printers, Emmanuel Gatti … Read More
Léon Monet, a collector who loved Rouen, at Musée du Luxembourg
Léon Monet is “the brother of… Claude” and he was a chemist and industrialist, developing artificial colours, who helped his brother and some of his Impressionist friends (Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir…) in acquiring and exhibiting their paintings, thus becoming an important collector. The small exhibition at Musée du Luxembourg has all the charm of Normandy with many views of Rouen where … Read More