There is nothing more exciting for me than the first day of a summer holiday. I love to drive my little red car and aim directly for the South, with one project in mind and many friends to visit. This time, it was the three exhibitions devoted to Jean Hugo (1894-1984) in Sète, Montpellier and Lunel. I had to stop … Read More
Musée de l’Armée gets a facelift in the Invalides
70 % of the 1, 2 million visitors at Musée de l’Armée are foreigners and the largest group is American. So you will be pleased to learn that, after four years of works and 15 M € spent under the architects Antoine Dufour , two new galleries have been opened, one dedicated to the history of Hotel des Invalides founded … Read More
The Torlonia collection is smashing at the Louvre
I visited the Torlonia collection at the Louvre on a weekday at 9.30 and found it less stressful than expected. If you enter through passage Richelieu you access the aile Denon directly and take the elevator up to 0, it shortens the climb… You pass the Venus de Milo and enter the former apartments of Anne d’Autriche (Louis XIV th’s … Read More
In Versailles, horses trot, gallop and make a great show
The opening gallery of the exhibition “Cheval en Majesté” at Versailles is spectacular. Designed as a grand stable, it shows the horses’ heads sticking out along a grand corridor designed in the Galerie de Pierre haute of the museum, the usual exhibition rooms being too hot in the summer. First, King Charles XI of Sweden, then Louis XIV th, Napoléon, … Read More
Montfort l’Amaury, a true discovery 40 mns from Paris.
The mission was to drive an old friend who needed to visit Maurice Ravel‘s house, le Belvédère, and pick up some paintings she had acquired on internet from gallery A Tempera, in Montfort l’Amaury. Little did we know that we would discover the most beautiful little town and the flamboyant church of St Peter’s, embellished by three successive queens of … Read More
Street art at the Petit Palais and “Picasso Iconophage”, the power of images.
There is lots happening in Paris and some museums will stay open during the games like le Petit Palais which is right in the middle of everything and Musée Picasso which has inaugurated a new show “Picasso Iconophage“. While havoc is reigning over the Seine, noone can cross the bridges anymore by car except at l’Alma and Pont Neuf, buses … Read More
MusVerre and Conches sur Ouches, what a festival of glass!
I have already told you about these two glass museums which are my favorites in France. One, the Musverre, is very specialized in contemporary creations and can be found on the Belgian border in Sars Poteries. The other, Musée François Decorchémont is 90 minutes from Paris, in Conches, Normandy. Both have a permanent collection and special exhibitions. And both are … Read More
Bande dessinée, comic books, are the stars at Beaubourg
Centre Pompidou and musée d’Art moderne are a temple of fabulous contemporary artworks and its current exhibition of Brancusi is one of the most sought after in Paris today. But the news of the week is the “La B.D. à tous les étages” understand: Comic books on all floors, which the President, Laurent Le Bon, inaugurated last Tuesday with a … Read More