Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label avant-garde. Show all posts

28 February 2026

Stand-up Saturday


 
 
He might have stepped off an artsy postcard at the Palais de Tokyo gift shop.
 
 
Upcoming exhibitions in March newsletter
 
Palais de Tokyo
13 avenue du Président Wilson 75116 
 

6 August 2025

Window Wednesday

 
 
Natural light floods the bookshop inside Halle Saint-Pierre, a former market.


9 May 2024

Throwback Thursday

 
 
From recent Iris Van Herpen exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
 
 

25 April 2024

House of Van Herpen

 


This extraordinary Dutch fashion designer has been hailed as a "visionary" whose "creations merge pioneering techniques and luxurious materials, often evoking a sense of avant-garde wonder."
 
 IRIS VAN HERPEN
"Sculpting the Senses"

Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli 75001

 Ends April 28, 2024

 

 


13 January 2024

Ceramics Saturday

 

From:
HEY! Céramique.s
 
Above: La Menteuse - The Liar
 
bookstore / coffee shop / museum / gallery 
2 rue Ronsard 75018
 
Ends August 14, 2024
 

17 March 2020

Sole man #3





Christian Louboutin - L'Exhibition-ist

Ends July 26, 2020

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Tomorrow:
Love In The Time Of Corona

Now that France's lockdown begins today at noon (Parisiens woke up to a memo on our cellphones from the French Gov't.), domestic life won't be quite the same. As dear friends in the U.K. half-jokingly wrote, "Divorces will surely follow." While for others, there will be more babies. I recall hearing how, when light bulbs were introduced in India, the birth rate suddenly plummeted.

Being holed up with one's ti chéri needn't be that different from being snowed in together in a mountain cabin or entwined in an isolated country farmhouse, which we happily chose to do until not that long ago, though the key word here I suppose is, "chose." So as everyone around the world hunkers down - we're all set with masks, gel/soaps, firewood, water, coffee, tea, good food and drink, books, music, films, computers, candles, bubble bath and other essentials - we are grateful for the many loving people in our lives, and for each other, as well as for skype, zoom, whatsapp.... Already, the virus is making us realize how connected and vulnerable we are in our humanity. - BPJ

11 February 2020

Dalí: tout simplement


At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then," he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater wish."

Dalí. The Paintings
Authors: Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret

Taschen: Publisher
2 rue de Buci 75006

15 May 2019

Egg on his face


A small gallery in the 12th shows off-the-radar contemporary art.

Atelier du Génie
28 Passage du Génie 75012


12 February 2016

Party animals


This Parisian-apartment-turned-taxidermist shop was used as a set for one of the party scenes in "Midnight In Paris," a Woody Allen film nostalgique.