Jouy-en-Josas, France — Lovers of a good night’s sleep have always known about the wonders of a horsehair mattress. It is just one of life’s affordable luxuries, well somewhat affordable. But horsehair, […]
Harmonious Horsehair
From the Faraway Lands
Paris, France —There were the treasures of the influential Kuba Kingdom of the Congo: masks, cups, boxes and textiles. The masks and objects of the Lega people of the Congo are juxtaposed […]
Critic’s Choice: Football: A Fierce Field Filmed
Paris, France — It was a pre-season football game. American football. It was August 12th, 1978 when Jack Tatum, a defensive back for the Oakland Raiders hit Darryl Stingley, a wide receiver […]
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 […]
Critic’s Choice: A Regeneration
Paris, France —An intriguing exhibition of peaceful and pink works will be unfolding at the Almine Rech gallery in Paris featuring the works of Korean-born artist Minjung Kim. She studied calligraphy and […]
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 […]
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. […]
Very Van Gogh
Paris, France — It is one of the great exhibitions of the season in Paris: Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, the Final Months, bringing together the works produced by Van Gogh during the […]
Nurses, the Silent Heroines of the Great War
Meaux, France —The war raged. The wounded and suffering arrived, massively in 1914. World War I in France would become a turning point for the nursing profession, a profession which at that […]
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