News
PARIS — Feminism has happily challenged the given of the privileged male in relationship to the female model and forced a re-evaluation of a visual culture that viewed the world from a white heterosexual male perspective.
Art
PARIS — During springtime in Paris, one frequently meets beaming American newlyweds on their honeymoon.
Art
BEAUVAIS, FRANCE — This spring the Musée de l’Oise (MUDO) in Beauvais has helped an artist make his way toward the light, only after eight decades of dark oblivion.
Art
PARIS — One can easily mistake ghosts of the past for the modern. Most of us have only a vague and superficial idea that West African sculpture’s symbolic force has an crucial place in the history of Modern Art.
Art
PARIS — The art in Hervé Télémaque’s Centre Pompidou retrospective floats between Port-au-Prince, New York, and Paris.
Opinion
PARIS — Most Parisians seem to have overlooked the radical, anti-fascist, irony-soaked, “top-down” demonstration by the international women’s movement Femen that took place on May 1.
Art
PARIS — Takis, a key post-war figure known for exploring magnetic field energy, was one of the avant-garde artists of the ‘60s that was most able to mix art with science, paving the way for all sorts of artistic directions in the ensuing decades, right up to our electro days.
Art
PARIS — Bruce Nauman at the Fondation Cartier is a hip, hodgepodge mini-retrospective, curated by Hervé Chandè, that sets an array of Nauman’s works against each other, ranging from the '80s to the rather recent.
Art
PARIS — In these paintings, you’ll find wine and drunken excess, along with all the accompanying decadent behavior: insult, turbulence, transgression, sacrilege, and provocation.
Art
PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.
Interview
Re-photographing (or re-purposing) the news media began for me as a healing ritual, a kind of laying-on-of-hands, to purge my despair over news events around the world.
Art
PARIS — Pliure (meaning “fold” in French) is a book-based small show, tastefully curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, about the artistic metamorphosis of books (those folded paper things).