Meudon, France — Kings hunted in the nearby forest. Airships were stored in its expansive hangar in the 19th century where later on Marc Chagall would assemble his roof decors for the […]
A Great Day Away with a Place to Play
Olympic Outing: Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away. Or Could They?
Versailles, France — It is one of the more spectacular settings for an Olympic Event. The equestrian jumping events are currently underway on the grounds of the Versailles Palace with the stunning […]
Olympic Outing: In Comes Ireland
Paris, France — The island nation of Ireland participated in its first Olympic Games in 1924 at the Paris Summer Games and today, 100 years later, Team Ireland returns to the French […]
Olympic Outing: Minting the Medals
Paris, France — The athletes are the stars of the Olympic Games but they compete for what are perhaps the most coveted medals in the world: the Olympic gold, silver and bronze. […]
Olympic Outing: Flying Photos with ForgetMat
Levitation Photography. Flying Photography. Movement Art. French athlete, dancer, choreographer and artist Mathieu Forget, known as ForgetMat, has developed a singular and unique style of photography in which he literally springs forth […]
Marvels of the Mexica
Paris, France — We called them Aztecs. They called themselves Mexica. They left behind an extraordinary civilization punctuated with mysteries, splendor and blood thirsty sacrifices. They established their capital city in what […]
A Dynamic Dinosaur Descends on Dampierre
Dampierre-en-Yvelines —His name is Vulcain and he is a gigantic Apatosaurus that roamed the face of the Earth in the Late Jurassic period some 160 million years ago. But today he, or […]
Olympic Outing: The Best of the Bicycle
Sceaux, France — A bicycle built for six. How about a steam powered bicycle, perhaps less polluting than an electrical bicycle. Or perhaps a rather unstable looking penny-farthing, better known as a […]
Heading into Hélion
Paris, France — Artist, writer, escaped prisoner of war, the 20th century French artist Jean Hélion trained as a pharmacist and chemist before turning to the world of art professionally. He was […]
A Revealing Roversi Retrospective
Paris, France — The Italian photographer Paolo Roversi was born in the scenic Italian city of Ravenna, known for its incredible mosaics, in 1947. It was the same year that Edwin Herbert […]
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