Every year the taxidermist Deyrolle awards a prize for paintings of nature, exhibited at Salon des Beaux Arts and organises a show in their magical shop of rue du Bac. This year Béatrice Meunier-Déry won, with her amazing drawings made with a felt pen O,O3 and a magnifier. Born in the French Ardennes, Béatrice studied architecture before devoting all her … Read More
Rupert Shrive at Galerie Hoang Beli
Nor far from Centre Pompidou where the Donation Ilya and Emilia Kabakov was being shown, I discovered a new very pretty gallery Hoang Beli on rue Chapon, which was recently opened by John Hoang, a Vietnamese Singaporean young accountant who loves art. This month he exhibits English eccentric artist, Rupert Shrive, who pushed his statue of Balzac by foot all … Read More
Sports at Petit Palais, roses in Chantilly, music by the Garde Républicaine what a life!
Yes the nightmare has started and every single Parisian I meet says: “I am moving to the country for the summer”… When the bus 84 from Saint Sulpice dropped me off at Assemblée Nationale and said it was turning back, I started to understand that life in the next six months would not be the same. The same happened when … Read More
Seffa Klein and a family “constellation” at Galerie Poggi
Jérome Poggi used the evening of the Surrealist gala dinner of Amis du Centre Pompidou, to launch his exhibition of Seffa Klein‘s “bismuth” paintings in his new gallery facing Beaubourg. And discovering Yves Klein‘s (1928-1952) granddaughter’s paintings was extremely fun. Purple cocktails were being served with a DJ active on the first floor and a young International crowd was ready … Read More
Duels are trendy at Musée de l’Armée
The historical Hotel des Invalides, founded by Louis XIV in 1674, will be at the center of the Olympic Games and the Esplanade is already blocked to pedestrians by all sorts of constructions. I was happily surprised to run into hundreds of foreign tourists who were visiting the monument and the church on a recent sunny Friday. Happily, very few … Read More
“Mexica” at Quai Branly, a throve of discoveries and a film festival
For a long time the Mexicas (13 th -16 th century) were incorrectly referred to as Aztecs. The remains of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica empire (now in Mexico City) and its sacred Templo Mayor are still being uncovered today. The exhibition “Mexica” which just started at Musée du quai Branly shows the most remarkable collection … Read More
The Grand decors of Notre Dame are stunning at the Gobelins…
The new exhibition of Mobilier National at the Gobelins, is a rare occasion to see at eye level, thirteen of the (77) large “Mays” offered to Notre Dame by the Goldsmiths guild of Paris from 1630 to 1708, during Louis XIII and Louis XIV th’ reigns. And also nine more paintings, a very large carpet offered by Charles X in … Read More
At Chantilly, animals invade the famous library and Claude Lorrain strikes our eye with his drawings
There are two exhibitions at Chateau de Chantilly which might seem very intellectual but are actually a great source of pleasure. One, “Bestiaire médiéval” reveals all the imaginary and real animals painted in Medieval times in hunting treaties, fables, religious books… The donkey and the beef in Bethlehem, Jonas and the whale or other symbolic animals, have all been taken … Read More