02.02.2015 Picasso’s rose period
As a certain feast of a certain saint approaches, the fourteenth of a certain month, pink is to be celebrated…
01.26.2015 Who is the conductor?
A young sales person gets confused by a prestigious long-term customer about an interpretation of Mozart…
01.15.2015 The house of Les Lilas
The garden of Les Lilas is at the front of the tall house of Hennequeville from where Marcel Proust would telegraph Paris…
01.05.2015 William Morris : the mind of a visionary artist
The National Portrait Gallery holds an exhibition dedicated to the legacy of William Morris, about to close in a few days…
01.01.2015 Candles stories: Barry Lyndon
Directed by Stanly Kubrick, this true masterpiece was entirely and exclusively shot under candlelight…
12.29.2014 Candles stories: the birthday
Today, lighting candles for a birthday, and often as many candles as years of age, has become a tradition shared throughout nearly all the cultures of our world…
12.25.2014 Candles stories: science
Lavoisier (1743-1794), who was a chemist, an economist and a philosopher, came to some key conclusions of his times while watching his candle burn.
12.22.2014 Candles stories: an ideal
A candle will often personify a human life, a virtue or a universal ideal…
12.18.2014 Karlheinz Stockhausen
The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…
12.02.2014 The mystery of the name
Where does such a name come from?
Time and loyalties made it familiar. But in 1961, it was nothing but a technical word for art specialists.
11.05.2014 William Eggleston at Foundation Cartier-Bresson
The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation is holding an exhibition about photograph William Eggleston, now on until december 21, 2014.
