A Cold Sun rising over Palais de Tokyo
(Paris.) Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is France's best known "centre d'art", a public gallery with no collection of its own. After...
Are You Experienced? Sous Influences at La Maison Rouge
(Paris.) "Welcome on board of flight 777 from Paris to Kathmandu, soon we will reach our cruising altitude of: very high." La Maison...
From Paris with Love: Correspondances at Espace Louis Vuitton
(Paris.) For this new exhibition at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, curator Erik Verhagen made a selection of artworks labelled as Mail...
Sushi from Amsterdam: Van Gogh under the Influence
(Paris.) An art collector founding his own museum is nothing special these days, but an art historian doing the same seems less common....
Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten, from Delacroix to Perrotin
(Paris.) An art dealer has reached the top level when you start to wonder if he still adapts his schedule to museum shows or if it might...
Ni Hao Smiley Face. Yue Minjun at the Cartier Foundation
Paris. Has your company already been sold to Chinese investors? No? But your boss is fluent in Mandarin and your Chinese subsidiary well...
Viva El Loco: Some thoughts on Salvador Dali at Centre Pompidou
Paris - Dali, "Tout Paris" is talking about Dali these days. The Centre Pompidou is virtually closed for any other activity as the huge...
Turkey for Vuitton
(Paris.) The last resistance to LVMH Foundation's private museum in the Bois de Boulogne has been squashed by court decision this summer....
Don't mess with Big G. An update on the Parisian gallery scene
Paris- You can easily imagine Larry Gagosian's face when Thaddäeus Ropac announced his plans for a new exhibition space in the outskirts...
Mr Ed Has Something More to Say: Edward Hopper at Grand Palais, Paris
Paris - I did not know Hopper. I mean, of course I knew "Nighthawks", but I thought that's all. And even in my perception of this...
Man is Evil. Adel Abdessemed's Religious Pessimism at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Paris - Paris has a brand-new tourist attraction, people of all ages and origins can be observed posing for photographs with a giant...
Roman Ondak, Bertille Bak: Two exhibitions at MAMVP Paris
(Paris.) Do you know what a "Flash Mob" is? The phenomenon has briefly been in fashion in the '00s (gosh, so long ago), in a sense it was...
So many questions: Bertrand Lavier, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Paris - Centre Pompidou starts the winter season with an exhibition of Bertrand Lavier: "Since 1969". Untypical for a retrospective, a...
French Cuisine with Michel Blazy at Le Plateau, Paris
(Paris) To celebrate its tenth birthday, Le Plateau, public gallery of the regional art council FRAC, invites us to Michel Blazy's "Grand...
More of Paris: Cindy Sherman, Celèste Boursier-Mougenot, Sturtevant and the double Gabriel Orozco
Paris - Here comes the second part of our overview on the Parisian gallery scene this autumn. A well anticipated event is Gabriel...
Paris: La Rentrée, featuring Sophie Calle, Clément Cogitore, Fritz Panzer and many more...
Paris - Every year in early September Parisians celebrate "La Rentreé", the "relaunch" of all activities, art related or not. During...
Wael Shawky's Crusade to Berlin at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin - "KW" is a beautiful name for a public art gallery, isn't it? Very German at least. I remember a techno club with the same name...
Berlin Calling: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum with Cy Twombly, Morton Bartlett, Architecture and More
Berlin - Malicious gossip has it, that after-wall Berlin is the biggest Disneyland resort ever, showing no distinct style of its own but...
A visit to Hamburg Part 2 : New York Photography 1890-1950 from Stieglitz to Man Ray
Hamburg - Earlier I introduced you to Antony Gormley's Horizon Field Installation. A much less experimental exhibition can be found at...
A Visit to Hamburg: Antony Gormley's Horizon Field Installation
Hamburg - Hamburg is known for the second biggest European harbour after Rotterdam and the second largest European red light district...
Size Matters: Extra Large Exhibition at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, with Masterpieces from the Pompidou
Monaco - I know Artlife Magazine readers are precisely the kind of people for a spontaneous weekend trip to Monte Carlo. Just to relax,...
One Day in Kassel: a Personal Review of Documenta (13)
Kassel - It was a sunny day at the end of July when I arrived at train station "Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe". Slightly distracted by two American...
Portuguese Artist Joana Vasconcelos Makes Versailles her Playground
Paris - How to rip off tourists certainly is an art in itself, and the French are its undisputed masters. If by accident you visit...
Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Turbulences
(Paris.) Sorbonne professor David Rosenberg is one of Paris' leading freelance curators, for "Turbulence" at Espace Louis Vuitton on the...
Maison Européenne de la Photographie with Alice Springs, Anderson&Low, Charlotte Rampling, ...
Paris - The MEP ("European House of Photography") disposes over a famous collection, but as photographs are very sensible works they...
Summer in the City with a Taxonomy of Group Shows
(Paris) Saturday, June 30th. Fashion labels have rented gallery spaces to use as showrooms for Men's Prêt-A-Porter collections, Metro...
Travelling Without Moving: Mount Fuji Does Not Exist at Le Plateau, Paris
(Paris.) The exhibition welcomes us with a poem by Richard Brautigan and we immediately understand, this will be another experience in...
The old Man and the Canvas, Gerhard Richter's Masterpieces at Centre Pompidou, Paris
(Paris.) Parisian Centre Pompidou is the third and last institution to host this retrospective of painting's last genius, following the...
More Than One World: Laurent Grasso's 'Uraniborg' at Jeu de Paume, Paris
(Paris.) There have already been some good exhibitions in Paris this year, but the first real highlight is Laurent Grasso's Uraniborg at...
Oh, sweet nothing - Helmut Newton at Grand Palais, Paris
(Paris.) This is the second exhibition actually showing in Grand Palais event centre, and in only three weeks time there will...