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 […]
The Loveliness of Landscapes: The Neue Galerie Presents Klimt’s Landscape Paintings
New York, New York — The Neue Galerie in New York is offering a rare glimpse into the stunning landscape paintings by Gustav Klimt, a central figure in the cultural life of […]
An Architectural Atmosphere
Paris, France — Pigments and chalk, bamboo and silk thread. It is a world of simplicity in earth tones. A world of calm evoking a life force of sorts. This world is […]
Very Varda: The Photographs
Filmmaker, script writer, artist and photographer, Agnès Varda was born in Belgium in 1928. She and her husband, the filmmaker Jacques Demy, moved to Los Angeles in 1967 where she lived in […]
Fashion Play: When Sports meet the Runway
Paris, France — Driving gloves, early 20th century fencing costumes, a Hermès surfboard and Vuitton skate board trunk are just a few of the fun fashions on show at the Musée des […]
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