It took me a little time to get to the exhibition “Baudelaire, la modernité mélancolique” (Melancholic modernity) celebrating the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, which opened in November at Bibliothèque nationale de France, because I feared it would be too intellectual and stiff. Well the way the symbolist poet’s writings, sources and portraits (200 pieces) are laid out is so … Read More
I look forward to in 2022…
January is always an exciting month with New Year’s resolutions and all the projected goodies of the Spring and the Summer. Here are a few cultural ideas for the next months. Two exhibitions of turn of the century Finnish painters in March should please the charming Finnish ambassador in Paris, Teemu Tanner: Akseli Gallen-Kalella (1865-1931), at Musée Jacquemart André and Albert … Read More
A fireworks of Marquet at Galerie de la Présidence
Galerie de la Présidence survives in front of the Elysée Palace and surrounded by police and security fences, and it is even celebrating its 50 th anniversary. When you have the good idea of ringing the bell, Florence Chibret-Plaussu opens with a smile. She and her mother, Françoise, have been collecting paintings by Albert Marquet (1875-1947) for years and some of … Read More
Anselm Kiefer at Grand Palais until January 11, do not miss it!
When I met him at Daniel Templon’s decoration, Jean Michel Wilmotte, the architect of Grand Palais Ephémère, advised me to go and visit the Anselm Kiefer “For Paul Celan” show, around 4 pm to get the best light of the day. Unfortunately it was raining when I went last Monday but I understood why the light was so important in … Read More
At Musée Guimet, Duy Anh Nhan Duc and Tajikistan glitter…
There are always surprises at Musée Guimet, and this time it was Duy Anh Nhan Duc, a Vietnamese botanical artist who is showing on the top floor a series of sculptures and installations made with dandelion seeds. He takes us on a three part journey with a triptych which leads us to dream and poetry. Born in 1983 in Ho … Read More
Eva Jospin is striking in Giverny and fills up musée de la Chasse
Musée de la Chasse has been closed for renovations for two years, its fabulous director Claude d’Anthenaise has retired, and Eva Jospin’s exhibit throughout the museum and in the Galleria downstairs is the perfect momentum for its reopening. Children and parents are forming a huge crowd outside and inside the Hotel de Mongelas in the Marais, and I found it … Read More
Marcel Proust reappears at Musée Carnavalet
I found the exhibition “Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel“, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth at Musée Carnavalet, a little disappointing but it seems to be extremely popular and the small rooms are swarming with visitors. There is a trend on Proust right now and it is as if one felt more clever around him… Since Carnavalet is the … Read More
Daniel Templon is decorated and fights for a Paris Biennale
There were so many ministers in the room that the potential cluster had been very well monitored at Hotel Meurice for the Legion of honor of Daniel Templon, one of Paris’ leading art dealer, who founded his first gallery 55 years ago. Minister of culture Roselyne Bachelot, an old friend of his, was awarding him the “rosette” as we call … Read More