In Brief
Flooding Damages Three Paintings and Multiple Rooms at the Louvre
France's National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9.
Paris
Art
Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes
The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961.
Art
An Artist Couple's Collaborations Have Chemistry, but No Alchemy
The poet and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his wife, the artist Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, make bright and fantastical works together under the moniker pascALEjandro.
Art
The Timeless Blackness of Balenciaga’s Dresses
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle showcases some 60 pieces designed by Cristóbal Balenciaga, highlighting his sculptural manipulations of black fabric.
Art
Artists Form Shell Company to Visit and Photograph Tax Havens
Artists Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti traveled to 13 tax havens in an attempt to visualize the fundamentally invisible networks corporations and the ultra-rich employ to hide their wealth.
News
Strike Forces Centre Pompidou to Close for Fourth Consecutive Day [UPDATED]
The strike stems from a change to the status of the museums' workers set to go into effect on April 1.
Books
A New Guide Maps the Overlooked Brutalism of Paris
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
Art
The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism
An exhibition at Paris's decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.
Art
Mapping Migrant Journeys onto Boats of String
A suspended, stringy installation of boat forms by Chiharu Shiota in a Parisian department store evokes the uncertainty and peril of migrants' journeys.
Art
The Making of Antoine Bourdelle's Early Modern War Monument
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle reveals the process behind its namesake's beguiling monument to veterans of the Franco-Prussian War.
Art
An Exclusive Glimpse of a Gilded Salon of Presidential Power
For his elegant new film, Laurent Grasso was allowed to film in the Salon Doré, the golden-hued office of the President of France.
Art
The Mexican Modernists Who Found Success in Decadence
An exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais tracks art made in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the influence of the European avant-garde and Mexicans' celebratory attitude toward death.