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 […]
An Architectural Atmosphere
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 […]
Fashion Play: When Sports meet the Runway
Paris, France — Driving gloves, early 20th century fencing costumes, a Hermès surfboard and Vuitton skate board trunk are just a few of the fun fashions on show at the Musée des […]
Jazz Club Etoile: Joyful Jazz and More, Much More
Paris, France—Live music, cocktails, dinner concerts any one, in Paris? It’s all there at one of the great Parisian jazz venues, the Jazz Club Etoile in the Meridien Hotel at Porte Maillot. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Critic’s Choice: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Beyond and Behind the Cats
Paris, France — Long before they took over the internet, cats took over the heart and home of the Swiss artist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, a key figure in the artistic scene in Montmartre […]
Van Gogh: The Final Journey
Paris, France — Crows in a wheat field, rocking row boats, houses or a church seemingly in perpetual motion. These were the final days. The paintings that emerged from Vincent van Gogh […]
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