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 

Transcendent Tuesday

 

Colossal projections bring Renaissance works to life. 

Above: Michaelangelo's David w/heart-shaped pupils

 

Discover the Renaissance

Da Vinci, Raphael, Michaelangelo, more 

   

L'Atelier des Lumières

38 rue Saint-Maur 75011

 

Ends June 27, 2026

 

Mossy Monday

 

 

Eugène Carrière, symbolist and teacher to Matisse, wrapped in mist and moss.

 

Portes Ouvertes / Open Doors: Montmartre

 

 

MAP

 

 

Portes Ouvertes 2025

 

Thru Monday November 17   

 

From Anvers aux Abbesses

124 Artistes - 73 Ateliers

9th, 17th and 18th arrondissements

(Mainly in / around Montmartre)

 Discover / support participating artists and galleries.

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In their footsteps:   

Painting
Watercolor

Photography 

Mixed Media

Textile

Engraving
Sculpture
Drawing
Collage
Mosaic
Ceramics
Digital art
Street Art

 Jewelry

 

 

Sibling Sunday

 

 

Caïn venant de tuer son frère Abel - Cain After Killing His Brother Abel

 

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This riveting sculpture in the autumn-kissed Jardin des Tuileries was created by French artist Henri Vidal in 1896 and depicts the biblical figure Cain in extreme despair after murdering his brother Abel out of profound jealousy, as described in the Book of Genesis, the first recorded act of fratricide in Judeo-Christian scripture. - BPJ

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

 

True stripes

 

Columns by Daniel Buren, art installation, Palais-Royal.

A door adorned

 

The Art Nouveau door on Avenue Rapp.

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  The Art Nouveau movement, characterized by flowing lines, natural motifs, and innovative materials like iron, glass, and ceramics, left its mark on various buildings across Paris. This door, a prime example at 29 Avenue Rapp, designed by Jules Lavirotte in 1901, is a top contender for the most beautiful door in Paris.

When the door first appeared, it caused a stir for its intricate carvings, lavish sculptural ornamentation such as Adam and Eve and the door's rumored naughty overtones, which only added to its allure. 

Despite soaring popularity, the movement began to fade around the early 1910s, its decline often linked to the onset of World War I in 1914. By then, the style’s exuberant, ornate designs began to give way to the more geometric and streamlined forms of Art Deco which better suited the post-war desire for modernity and simplicity.

Today there are Art Nouveau touches all over the city if one but keeps their eyes open. Probably the best-known and most-spotted are Hector Guimard's whimsical metro station entrances. - BPJ

 

Sit-down Saturday

 Sous le Chapeau (Under the Hat) at the Institut Liszt Paris / Hungarian Cultural Center.

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A life-sized bronze created by Hungarian sculptor Márta Lesenyei, known for her expressive works that often depict human figures in contemplative or emotional poses.

Saint Patrick d'Irlande

 

 

Picasso bust of Dora Maar looking rather green today.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

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Some favorite Irish pubs in Paris to lift a glass:

Le Galway Irish Pub

Brady's Irish Pub

Corcoran's Irish Pub

The Harp Bar

O'Sullivans

Murphy's House

- Check for info and opening hours -

Flee market Friday

A whimsical sculpture inside the magnificent L'Église Saint-Eustache commemorates the departure of the legendary "Belly of Paris" market in old Les Halles.

 

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

Mocha Monday

 

From Anvers aux Abbesses

101 Artistes - 63 Ateliers

  Friday November 15 - Monday November 18

- Montmartre opens its doors -

18th and 9th arrondissements

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 Portes Ouvertes 2024

Painting
Photography
Watercolor
Engraving
Sculpture
Drawing
Japanese Nihonga
Collage
Mosaic
Ceramics
Digital art
Street Art

 

Weepy Wednesday

 

 

In the small garden of Paris' oldest church rain streams down the face of a bust of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso.

 

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"The New York Times called her 'a muse of Picasso' and the 'principal model for many of his so-called weeping women portraits in the late 30s and early 40s.'" - Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh The Guardian 11/15/2019  

 

 

 

 

Statue-esque

A man posing as a statue stands atop the butte.

Floral Friday

Blossoms out on Place Marcel-Aymé who wrote Le Passe-muraille, The Man Who Walked Through Walls.

 

Pegasus

 

Statue of a poet astride Pegasus on a hidden square in the Opera district.

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 Pegasus, winged master of air and earth, represents beauty, strength, speed, and artistic inspiration. 

Medici Monday

Unknown to lovers Acis and Galatea the hideous Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, is just above them.

Medici Fountain

 Jardin du Luxembourg

 

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

 

 

Breath of fresh art

 

Outdoor sculptures dot the Esplanade de La Défense. 

 

Above: Deux personnages fantastiques (1976) by Joan Mirò