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 major renovation works l...
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 Rouge (The Red House) is...
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 Art. There is a certai...
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. The Pinacothèque de P...
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 actually be the othe...
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 established for a co...
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 waiting line at the m...
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. The green lung of P...
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 of Paris. "Ted... Wh...
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 painting I have been misled...
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 sculpture in front of th...
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 a test run for the ...
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 good part of these wor...
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 Restaurant". The ex...
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 Orozco's double show at Cha...
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 summer nobody has worked...
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 in Munich, probably c...
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 mere copies taken fr...
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 Bucerius Kunstforum wi...
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 after Amsterdam. On the...
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, get some tan and mayb...
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 girls tasting the f...
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 Versailles on a Tuesday in...
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 Champs Elysees he jo...
