Paris, France — A joyful exhibition is unfolding at the Musée Guimet, France’s national museum devoted to the arts of Asia. Chinese artist T’ang Haywen, who grew up in Vietnam, arrived in […]
East Meets West Once Again at the Guimet
The Marvels of Marco Polo
Paris, France — His voyages have captured the imagination of the world for over seven centuries now. Merchant, explorer, adventurer, cartographer, writer, Marco Polo traveled the world, most famously journeying from his […]
Mania, Prehistoric Mania
Paris, France — These were the copyists. But they weren’t sitting comfortably in a museum copying works of art on a building wall. They braved deserts and caves often hanging from a […]
Escaping into Ancient Egypt with a Fabulous Pharaoh
Paris, France — A landmark event is taking place in Paris bringing together role playing with an exhibition rooted in Ancient Egypt. This Ancient Egypt that continues to fascinate is currently centrally […]
Vertiginous Visions
Paris, France — Snakes and mermaids, dragonflies and panthers. crowns of peacock feathers. A colorful and dream-filled exhibition is unfolding at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris. These are shamanistic […]
It’s Champagne Time with Gustave Eiffel
If you use your imagination, a champagne bottle does in a way resemble the Eiffel Tower, wide-bodied on the bottom then becoming slender as it rises up. In 2021, the descendants of […]
An Air of Arborescence
Sète, France —This is a journey into a secret forest. A forest of brightly colored, at times darkly colored, trees. These are trees rendered in a fashion that hovers between the figurative […]
Downtown New York in Uptown Paris
Paris, France — Enter into a 5-story private mansion on the Avenue Matignon, one of the French capital’s gallery rows, to discover a part of the iconic 1980s New York art scene. […]
A Discovery of Dazzling Drawings
Paris, France — Every year in March the rarely seen world of drawings unfolds when the French capital becomes the Drawing Capital of the World. For they are fragile things, drawings, and […]
Made in France: Chocolate Care from Bernard Cassière
Paris, France — Most people eat chocolate for Easter. But it also turns out that chocolate (read dark chocolate here), filled with iron, magnesium, flavonols, zinc and copper, is excellent at reducing […]
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