Paris, France — Weaving words. Something every writer dreams of doing everyday. Franco-Moroccan artist Mehdi Qotbi has done just that and so much more. At first look it is all a dreamy […]
The Cathartic Colors of Qotbi
It’s Champagne Time with Pommery and Those Oysters that Are Right in Season
Reims, France — It is always an imposing and sweeping site turning into the wide driveway of the 19th century Vranken-Pommery Estate in Reims in the heart of Champagne country. The estate […]
Critic’s Choice: Our Cat is Back
Paris, France — One of our favorite characters is back in town just in time for the re-opening of Notre-Dame and he is taking in the town in the most cat-like of […]
The Bountiful Beauty from and of Benin
Paris, France — The history books recount to us the Kingdom of Dahomey or Danxome, an economically and culturally powerful entity that was located in present-day Benin. Benin might be a small […]
A Foray into Photography at Paris Photo
Paris, France — Graceful swans, a dynamic duo of boy and dog on roller skates, the concerned environmental photography of Sebastiao Salgado and William Klein’s Atom Bomb Sky were just a few […]
Critic’s Choice: the Staley-Wise Gallery at Paris Photo
With A Gourmet Gazette Gallery Paris, France — Paris Photo, one of the leading fairs devoted to photography, returned to the spectacular venue of the restored and re-opened Grand Palais in Paris […]
A Bountiful Bid for a Dazzling Dinosaur
Dampierre-en-Yvelines, France —The skeleton of a 150-million-year-old herbivore named Vulcain sold at auction for over $US 6 million in France last November 16th defying all estimates and joining the top ten club […]
Out of Africa and Into Paris: The African Art Fair Returned to Paris for a Resounding Ninth Time
Paris, France — Pensive paintings, eye-catching statues, intriguing works in myriad materials, performance art and more all emanating from the African continent and diaspora came together during one of the most intriguing […]
A Horse Named Zeus
Versailles, France — He was possibly one of the most intriguing characters of the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games last summer. Zeus is his name, the eye-catching metallic horse that […]
The Artful Autumn of Biodiversity
Paris, France — While the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity did not reach an agreement to ramp up a game plan and spending to […]
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