Mona Monday

 

 

Mona Lisa re-imagined in a favorite Left Bank corner.

 

Wednesday whimsy

The wonderful electromania of

 

Gilbert Peyre

Halle Saint-Pierre

bookstore / coffee shop / museum / gallery 

2 rue Ronsard 75018

 

Ends soon

July 31, 2025

 

 

Surrealism Sunday

Surréalisme 

One of the last exhibitions at the Beaubourg / Centre Georges Pompidou leading up to its closing in September 2025 for renovations.

Above: photo by Dora Maar

 

Mona Monday

 

Trompe your oeil at this eye-catching exhibition.

 Musée Marmatton Monet

 

TROMPE L'OEIL - From 1520 to the Present

 

Ends March 2, 2025

Turn here Tuesday

 

 

Tiny sign points the way to the Dalí museum in Montmartre.

 

Salvador Dalí's time in Montmartre included addresses on rue Lamarck and, more famously, rue Becquerel, where he joined Gala, wife of poet Paul Eluard whom he'd met in Cadaqués, Spain, and with whom he left, and that was that.

 

 Espace Dalí

 11 rue Poulbot 75018

 

 

Surrealism Sunday

 

Designed like a maze, the "Surréalisme" exhibition is an unprecedented dive into the exceptional creative effervescence of the Surrealist movement, born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto.

 Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents works by the movement’s iconic artists (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró), as well as those by the female Surrealists (including Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Dora Maar)....

 

Exhibition:

 

Surréalisme 

 

 Centre Georges Pompidou

 

Ends January 13, 2025

Throwback Thursday

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Starck difference

Exhibition:

Philippe Starck: Paris est pataphysique

 

Pataphysics described as "the science of imaginary solutions," is a philosophical invention of French symbolist and writer Alfred Jarry that preceded surrealism.

 

 Musée Carnavalet

 

Ends August 27, 2023

 

Twisted Tuesday

 

Upside down world.

 Above: mixed media digital art by Lithuanian artist Natalie Shau

 

 

 

Sumptuous Saturday

Her designs were eccentric, uniquely glamorous. Think Mae West, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Les mondes surréalistes d’Elsa Schiaparelli

 Musée des Arts Décoratifs
 107 rue de Rivoli 75001

Ends January 22, 2023

 

 

 

Throwback Thursday

  

 

Trapped in an iron neck brace unable to eat or speak.

"So what are you going to do to me?" 

- The Slanderer

  Artist: Troy Brooks

From 2019 exhibition:

HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture - Act IV

 

Also see post "Face off" 

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 Current: 

HEY! Le Dessin

Group exhibition

 Ends December 31, 2022

 Halle Saint-Pierre

bookstore / coffee shop / museum / gallery 

2 rue Ronsard 75018 

 

 

Farewell to Venus

Inspired by the Venus de Milo, this multi-sectional bronze sculpture had occupied a spot on rue Jacques Callot since 1993, but no more.

Vénus des Arts - 1992
(Venus of the Arts)

Arman

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

Face off

 

From:

 HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture - Act IV

Group exhibition

Artist: Troy Brooks

 

 

Halle Saint-Pierre

bookstore / coffee shop / museum / gallery 

2 rue Ronsard 75018

 

Ends August 2, 2019

 

Also see post  "Throwback Thursday" taken at the same exhibition

 

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- July newsletter: photos from champagne press opening -

Often imitated

...but never equaled.

- Espace Dalí opens in Paris -

"a must for art and Dalí fans"

  Article: The Good Life France Magazine

Espace Dalí

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." -

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí loved Paris and today, after months of renovation, the museum-gallery Espace Dalí re-opens its doors in Montmartre where few realize the Catalan artist resided, at 7 rue Becquerel.

Espace Dalí

11 rue Poulbot 75018

Article: The Good Life France Magazine

Last days Paul Klee

Jaw-dropping exhibition of work by the Swiss-German artist.

 

 Ends Monday

Centre Georges-Pompidou

Place Georges-Pompidou 75004 

Hands on

 

- Bonne Année / Happy New Year 2016 - 

 

Above: a gallery wall in the Marais district

 

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More Fornasetti

With the Fornasetti retrospective winding up in less than a week I couldn't resist posting two more of my favorite photographs from this don't-miss exhibition.