Paris, France — An opulent orchid exhibition is underway in one of the delightful greenhouses of the Botanical Gardens of France’s National History Museum in Paris, taking the visitor on a journey […]
Onward into the Orchids
A Journey into Pessac Léognan with Château de France
Paris, France — It was a well-healed crowd at the Restaurant 122 in the posh 7th arrondissement of Paris in a neighborhood of elegant private mansions housing embassies and French government ministries. […]
Juxtaposing Giacometti
Paris, France —- They never met, though they were contemporaries. Neither one of them particularly liked to travel. They were Alberto Giacometti best known for his sculptures and Giorgio Morandi, the Italian […]
Hats Off, to Mr. Jones
Paris, France — He once famously said « Anything can make a hat ». And he is regarded as one of the greatest of contemporary milliners, perhaps one of the greatest of all time. […]
Revealing Ribera
Paris, France — Martyrdom was his subject of predilection along with human cruelty. Brutal scenes of saints and satyrs, bound, flayed, crucified. All in agony. There is his Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, […]
Remembering the Reign of Terror, the French Terror
Paris, France — A bathtub killing, the beheading of the last queen of France, guillotining galore. It was a time of retribution with public executions decidedly on trend often accompanied by lavish […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Find: An Exceptional Engraving
This is the gift for enthusiasts of the Impressionist art movement at its best: an exceptional engraving of Edouard Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, by Jacques Villon (real name Gaston Duchamp, brother […]
The Captivating and the Contemporary at Continua
Paris, France — The power of art and the thriving art scene of one of Europe’s newest countries, Kosovo, are to be played out in the Marais neighborhood of Paris at the […]
It’s a Natural World
Paris, France — There is Jeppe the cat resting in sand heated by the sun. A white hare in winter leaving his footprints behind him in the snow. A highly detailed portrait […]
Jewelry Fit for a Queen, A Merovingian Queen
Merovingian-style ring in brass and amazonite. Photo courtesy Rmn-Grand Palais. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette They were the house that united, essentially, France. The Merovingian dynasty were the ruling family of the […]
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