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 […]
Very Varda: The Photographs
Heads on the Horizon
Paris, France — It is an outpouring of human heads. A tribute to the human face. The current exhibition at the Institut Giacometti is a face to face between Alberto Giacometti and […]
Critic’s Choice: The Advent of Abstract at the Mnuchin Gallery
New York, New York — We had an exciting chance to return to one of our favorite galleries, the stately Mnuchin Gallery on the Upper East Side ensconced in a very beautiful […]
Paris-New York with Sonia Delaunay
New York, New York — She was one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century and a major exhibition devoted to this pioneer of Modern and Abstract Art is […]
Moments in Time: Elton John Time
New York, New York – A sparkling, eclectic and joyful world is unfolding at Christie’s New York which is presenting an exhibition of Elton John’s iconic collections of photographs, furnishings, stage costumes, […]
An Orchid Odyssey
Paris, France — This is a wild world, a world of orchids, ferns and the enigmatic vegetal beings, plants that seem to grow out of nowhere lining the canopy, the floor and […]
Imperial Japan and its Tale of Genji Come to Life in Paris
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1861) from a Series related to Genji. Edo Epoch, 1843-1847. Paris, musée Guimet, gift of Tadashi Goino, 2003, MA7318.©RMN-Grand Palais (Musée Guimet, Paris)/Michel Urtado. Photo courtesy Musée Guimet. Handout via […]
A Collection’s Collection
L’Isle-Adam, France —L’Isle-Adam is a delightful town in the greater Paris region just 20 miles (32 km) north of Paris nestled on the Left Bank of the picturesque and mighty Oise River. […]
The Middle Ages: from the Magical to the Mystical
Paris, France — A magical and mystical world paying tribute to the Middle Ages is unfolding in Paris at the delightful Musée national Gustave Moreau. Gustave Moreau, the 19th century artist, who […]
In Tribute to the Tribal
Paris, France —India, the world’s largest democracy and a patchwork of peoples. One of these peoples is the Bo Tribe of the Andaman Islands. The last speaker of their language, the Aka-bo […]
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