Paris, France — A joyful exhibition is unfolding at the Musée Guimet, France’s national museum devoted to the arts of Asia. Chinese artist T’ang Haywen, who grew up in Vietnam, arrived in […]
East Meets West Once Again at the Guimet
The Marvels of Marco Polo
Paris, France — His voyages have captured the imagination of the world for over seven centuries now. Merchant, explorer, adventurer, cartographer, writer, Marco Polo traveled the world, most famously journeying from his […]
Mania, Prehistoric Mania
Paris, France — These were the copyists. But they weren’t sitting comfortably in a museum copying works of art on a building wall. They braved deserts and caves often hanging from a […]
Escaping into Ancient Egypt with a Fabulous Pharaoh
Paris, France — A landmark event is taking place in Paris bringing together role playing with an exhibition rooted in Ancient Egypt. This Ancient Egypt that continues to fascinate is currently centrally […]
Vertiginous Visions
Paris, France — Snakes and mermaids, dragonflies and panthers. crowns of peacock feathers. A colorful and dream-filled exhibition is unfolding at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris. These are shamanistic […]
Moments in Time: Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Time
What better back drop for time than a star-filled night. Precisely Vincent van Gogh’s celebrated oil-on-canvas, The Starry Night, possibly his most famous painting, one that seemingly glows from within. The Swiss […]
An Air of Arborescence
Sète, France —This is a journey into a secret forest. A forest of brightly colored, at times darkly colored, trees. These are trees rendered in a fashion that hovers between the figurative […]
Downtown New York in Uptown Paris
Paris, France — Enter into a 5-story private mansion on the Avenue Matignon, one of the French capital’s gallery rows, to discover a part of the iconic 1980s New York art scene. […]
A Discovery of Dazzling Drawings
Paris, France — Every year in March the rarely seen world of drawings unfolds when the French capital becomes the Drawing Capital of the World. For they are fragile things, drawings, and […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Fare Find: The Captivating Café Philippe
Paris, France — Don’t let names deceive. This place is much more than a café, although the coffee, from the house of Coutume, is exceptionally excellent. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon cocktails […]
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