Artists jewels at MAD, not so sensuous!

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“Artists’ jewels are like miniature sculptures” said Karine Lacquemant, the curator of the show “From Calder to Koons, artists’ jewels” at MAD. the exhibition is based on Diane Venet‘s fabulous collection, but it also comprises many paintings and sculptures that inspired jewelry. Don’t go there expecting to see magical stones. It is all about shapes.

Lafayette Anticipations, a new meeting place in the Marais

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  The concept store Colette closed last December, a new artists’s store is born in the Marais : « A Rebours » inspired by Joris Karl Huysmans’ famous novel (Against the grain), a novelty store which is the tip of the icebeerg of the new Lafayette Anticipations Foundation. You will not find an art collection there but a building enlarged and renovated by … Read More

Daimyo warriors at Musée Guimet

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This exhibition could be called, “How to impress the opponent with glamorous armors”, for the collection of 33 Daimyo war lord costumes at Musée Guimet are worthy of Christian Lacroix’s imagination and fashion styles even though they were made in 15th-19th century Japan. 

Valérie Maltaverne creates magic with design

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When you walk into Valérie Maltaverne’s showroom in the Batignolles area, you immediately  know that you are entering a special world. That of perfect materials and craft. When she founded her company Ymer&Malta, she knew she wanted to create products with industrial designers and artisans. Nine years later, she partners with Tapisseries d’Aubusson on a few contemporary tapestries used with … Read More

Sheila Hicks sculpts with wool at Centre Pompidou

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Sheila Hicks was born in Hasting, Nebraska, studied at Yale University with Josef Albers and spent years in Mexico where she collaborated with Luis Barragan and befriended Leonora Carrington. Her medium is wool and linen and she is showing over a hundred pieces at Centre Pompidou in the show called “Life lines”, until April 30.

The Montmartre Museum glitters with Van Dongen

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No need to go to the gym this morning, visit the Montmartre museum instead and whether you arrive by tube or by foot, you will climb hundreds of steps to get to this charming, hidden museum which used to be Renoir’s studio, as well as Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo’s. Until August 26, a special exhibition unveils “Van … Read More

Pont Aven starts its new season with a private collection

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You have all heard of Ecole de Pont Aven, in Southern Brittany, where Paul Gauguin reigned over a colony of foreign and French painters in the 1880’s and 90’s.  The little city has renovated its museum two years ago and the private collection of Alexandre Mouradian is being shown this year. The paintings are excellent and the visit will take … Read More

Corot focuses on ladies and monks at Musée Marmottan

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You might be slightly bored by Jean Baptitse Corot‘s well known landscapes, by his rivers bordered with poplar trees in l’Oise and around Paris. But you will be utterly surprised by his paintings of naked women, of sexy models and charming nieces. These portraits were virtually unknown in his lifetime, for he only painted his family and professional sitters whom … Read More