Wall Wednesday

"Spider spider on the wall..."

 

Above: an unexpected eight-legged visitor

 

Monumental Monday

 

Teaser view of La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a goliath temporary installation by French artist JR on Paris’s oldest bridge, from a bicycle.

 

June 6 til June 28, 2026

 

Update:

Due. to wind damage opening delayed til June 15 

Fountain Friday

Legendary artist couple Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely have been reunited in an exhibition with “museum anarchist” Pontus Hulten.

Above: sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely at the Stravinsky Fountain, Pompidou Center 

Le Grand Palais Champs-Elysées

 Ends January 4, 2026

 

Crochet crazy

 

A giant serpent coils around The Tree of Life in an immense art installation representing the beginning of humankind.

LE LA SERPENT

 

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto

 

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche

24 rue de Sèvres 75007

 

On view til February 23

 

 

 

 

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This evening:

 

Nocturne des Beaux-Arts Saint Germain-des-Prés 

 

gallery hopping - vernissages - meet the artists - live music - apéros....

 

From 6 PM

Start at corner of rue de Seine, rue des Beaux-Arts and side streets

 

Belladonna

 

 

Tatiana Wolska

"Tatiana Wolska’s Belladonna exhibition nestles between the political and the intimate, offering a physical and cognitive experience where drawing merges with sculpture. Witches’ plant, good or magic weed known since ancient times, Belladonna, is both the remedy and the poison reminding us that its use requires subtle handling as well as great knowledge. Through the history of this plant, the exhibition promotes proliferation and dialogue in order to unite the familiar and the strange, lightness and ardor, suggestion and claim."

Curated by Marianne Derrien

Drawing Lab Paris

17 rue de Richelieu 75001

January 24 - April 20, 2025

Squaring off

 

 

Every year Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche gives carte blanche to a contemporary artist, and this year it's Daniel Buren of the renowned Palais Royal black-and-white-striped columns.

Exhibition:

Aux Beaux Carrés: Travaux In Situ

Daniel Buren

 

Ends February 18, 2024

 

 

Taking a stand

 

 

Yayoi Kusama's refreshing art at the door of the LVMH head office.

In the pink

 

Art installation at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche department store.

Eiffel teeter

 

Master of trompe l'oeil photographer street artist JR strikes again, this time making the Eiffel Tower appear to teeter perilously over a deep ravine. As with his installation at the Pyramide du Louvre, the viewer has to stand in just the right spot so the foreground and tower line up.

 

 Place du Trocadéro

 

  Ends June 17, 2021

Colonnes

Daniel Buren's stately columns.

Murano métro

  Writing for USA Today I described this métro entrance as looking as if "hundreds of multi-colored bras had been strung together."

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In May newsletter:

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Tantalizing Tangiers: the Moroccan port city that lured Jean Genet and Paul Bowles; more

Nouveautés

Rain and shine

Daniel Buren's columns at the Palais-Royal shine no matter what the weather.

Merci M. Durst

Corner door

Light blue door in the Daniel Buren courtyard at the Palais Royal.

Now you see it...

  Stand in the right place and line it up just right, and watch the great Pyramide du Louvre disappear before your eyes.

Temporary installation by JR, Parisian photographer street artist

Bicycle blue

A bicycle's colors set off by Buren's columns at the Palais-Royal.

Doggie deco

 These frisky pooches are a perfect match in tone and color to Daniel Buren's art installation.