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 […]
Mania, Prehistoric Mania
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 […]
Made in France: The Joy of Jam
Orange jam made with Washington navel oranges from the house of Maison Perrotte. Photo courtesy Maison Perrotte. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette Jam has been with us since practically the dawn of […]
Sumptuous Sète: on and in the Sea
It all begins with an almost island, an island-like peninsula stretching out into the Mediterranean Sea from France. Sète is a small city with a village-like atmosphere on the western side of […]
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