Let's Get VIOLAted: Bill Viola at the Grand Palais (Paris.) To fully appreciate the works of Bill Viola – one of today’s most relevant video artists and currently on show at the Grand...
I want to believe: Astralis at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton (Paris.) Louis Vuitton Foundation’s exhibition space on the Champs Elysees never gets the attention it deserves. We’ve said it in the...
On the Road with Robert Adams and Mathieu Pernot, at Jeu de Paume (Paris.) Our Parents, Our Children. Along, Some Rivers. Eden, Colorado. From the Missouri West. Cotton Woods. - What sounds like country...
Le Cube-ism: New Media gets arty with Nexus Productions (Issy-les-moulineux.) Le Cube is an institution dedicated to “art 2.0” and the creative possibilities of new technologies. Which makes it...
Let’s go a-hunting: Art-oriente-objet at the Musee de la chasse et de la nature (Paris.) For an animal rights activist, the Musée de la chasse et de la nature (“Museum of Hunting and Nature”) is a giant morgue that...
Hasta la victoria, siempre: Latin America at Fondation Cartier (Paris.) The recent Cartier exhibition with the marque celebrating itself at Grand Palais was an exception amongst the jeweller’s...
Apples’n’Frogs: New York Art at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery (Paris.) When an Austrian art dealer orders a British curating legend to select New York artists for a show in his Parisian gallery...
Zen 2.0: Hiroshi Sugimoto at Fondation Pierre Berge/YSL (Paris.) Among contemporary Japanese artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto is the antithesis to Takashi Murakami. His work is more serious, more...
Shine Bright Like a Diamond: A Cartier Christmas at Grand Palais (Paris.) To start with a crucial information: Being a man, you don’t run a risk of ruining yourself when you bring your wife or...
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Fiesta Mexicana in Paris (Paris.) Orangerie Museum honors art's second most famous moustache and her Dieguito with a small but nice show - Frida Kahlo / Diego...
Felix Vallotton, A Man of Many Styles (Paris.) Grand Palais' second autumn exhibition presents Felix Vallotton, who is best known for his participation in the Nabi group from...
The Other One: Georges Braque, Grand Palais Paris (Paris.) Batman and Robin. Tarzan and Cheetah. Simon and Garfunkel. Cheney and Bush. Picasso and Braque? Much too easily, Georges Braque...
Chaotically brilliant: Pierre Huyghe at Centre Pompidou (Paris.) A typical retrospective show traces the career of an artist from start to finish - or to the present time if he's still active....
Ryan flies to Paris. Ryan Gander at Le Plateau (Paris.) For the past two years, Le Plateau's director Xavier Franceschi and artists-come-curators Elodie Royer/Yoann Gourmel have been...
I Picasso, You Tourist. Summer in Barcelona (Barcelona.) Visiting Barcelona in summer sounds like a good idea: Enjoy a pulsating city's cultural highlights, and profit from the...
Out of Paris: The MAC/VAL with Ange Leccia and Dominique Blais (Paris.) Given the current state of international trademark legislation, it may be surprising that the MacVal has not yet been sued by a...
From Lichtenstein to Paris, at Centre Pompidou (Paris.) At one point in Centre Pompidou's exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein, the visitor reads "Return this drawing to Lichtenstein" on a...
Karl Lagerfeld under a Seine Bridge, for The Glory of Water and Fendi (Paris.) Sometimes, I tell people how much I enjoy to "go shopping with Karl". This is always a big success, gaining me much respect in...
The Art Tsunami: Nouvelles Vagues at Palais de Tokyo and beyond (Paris.) It's summer, again. Parisians leave for holidays, non-Parisians arrive for holidays. The Tamil street vendors have changed their...
Loris Greaud, Pompidou and Louvre, Looks like he made it (Paris.) Question: When you are a 34-year-old French artist, what would be the best thing that could happen to you? Answer: To be booked...
Nature and Stuff: Giuseppe Penone at Chateau de Versailles (Versailles.) I like Penone. Honestly. For the past forty years, the Italian artist has created Arte Povera's least pauper bronzes,...
Colour photography. Lorna Simpson and Ahlam Shibli at Jeu de Paume (Paris.) Times are changing. Hardly any stereotype proves true anymore, and still we hold on to outer appearance, to an empty shell. For...
Simon Hantaï's long March to Abstraction (Paris.) Some days ago, on my way to the Centre Pompidou, I ran into a female friend who reacted with a somehow disconcerted smile when I...
On the playground: Dynamo at Grand Palais, Paris (a satire) (Paris.) Leaving the Dynamo show at Grand Palais, I felt exhausted and overwhelmed with impressions. Sitting down on a bench, I wondered...
