02.13.2017 Valentine’s day
The history of Valentine’s Day is not very well known.
02.10.2017 Mirror on Narcissus
Condemned to never being able to embrace his beloved, he desperately tries to maintain the magic of illusion.
01.30.2017 Defining the pink
Pink is full of ambiguity. This is an elusive colour.
12.23.2016 The Japanese gift package according to Roland Barthes
« … it is precisely a speciality of the Japanese package that the triviality of the thing be disproportionate to the luxury of the envelope. » (Roland Barthes)
12.12.2016 Harlequin
Although originating from Italy, the charachter of Harlequin was born at the French the royal court.
12.05.2016 A time-sound dream
Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.
11.14.2016 Theatre set design
The role of decor in theatre production emerged slowly in successive stages.
10.24.2016 Design of light
10.07.2016 Patterns in modern art
Contemporary Art expert at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam analyzes the logic of patterns in Contemporary art
10.03.2016 Praises of fermentation
Yannick Alléno presents Terroirs, his latest book which main topic is fermentation in gastronomy, another praise of slowness…
09.26.2016 Through the looking glass…
Beyond the traditions, myths and superstitions attributed to the mirror, it occupies a special place in our thoughts about images.
09.09.2016 Henry Fox Talbot
Talbot is the English inventor of photography, just as Niépce and Daguerre were the French inventors of the same.
08.29.2016 Herbarium of Fontcuberta
Through Herbarium, one of his most emblematic work, the artist tackles fiction and irony to create a dynamic of doubt.
08.01.2016 Josef Sudek at Jeu de Paume museum
Sudek’s mastery of the pigment printing process enabled him to produce highly atmospheric and evocative images, thereby reaping all of the reflective and descriptive power of the gelatin silver print.
06.27.2016 Pierre de Fenoÿl
« My meanderings through the world of photography made me veer firmly towards a religious and almost mystical perception of photography » (Pierre de Fenoÿl)
06.20.2016 The smell of memory
So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.
06.13.2016 Jean Imbert: cooking and travelling
« The thing I love the most about travelling is all those little titbits I find out about culinary culture, ancestral know-how, produce and regional specialities! »
06.03.2016 Contemporary geophotography
Since the Seventies landscapes have blossomed in the field of «fine art » photography.
05.30.2016 Liners from the past
These ocean liners were real floating palaces.
05.23.2016 Motionless voyage
The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.
05.20.2016 Peter Doig: peaceful eeriness
A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…
04.28.2016 Dada optophonetic
“This wordless poetry already constituted one of the most salient features of Dada.”
04.25.2016 Gastronomy and perfume
“I have always been really interested in the world of perfume because of its evocative power.” (Anne-Sophie Pic)
04.14.2016 Sound and color
Towards a synesthetic approach to art, from the Renaissance until the 20th century.
04.11.2016 Calvino’s senses
Writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) planned to write five tales, each dedicated to one of the senses.
03.14.2016 The magic of the moment
This particular experience – the magic of the moment – is based on our sensations: letting the work of the five senses gradually spread their wings.
03.10.2016 “Turn me on”
Kinetic art reached its peak in 1965 when MoMA organised an exhibition that would go down in history: « The responsive eye ». When announced a year earlier in the press, an American journalist coined the phrase Op Art for the first time – a term that would achieve posterity.