02.22.2016 Inside a woman’s bag
A woman’s bag may be a fashion accessory, but it has nothing of the accessory about it.
02.15.2016 The treachery of images
This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…
02.01.2016 Richard Mosse’s vie en rose
Richard Mosse’s work is a real challenge to the system that obliges you to believe what you see. He gives us images of beauty to speak to us of pain and of danger.
01.18.2016 Rose of Eros…
It is Eros that rules the rose from the very outset and across all frontiers…
01.07.2016 Symphony for one man alone
In the first row of the orchestra at the concert hall, the « inventor » of concrete music slips behind a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers…
01.04.2016 Inside a woman’s bag…
Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.
12.28.2015 Mondrian’s trees
Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
12.17.2015 Tree corpus: Valérie Jouve
Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume and art critic, shares with us some texts and an interview, from the exhibition “Corps en résistance” catalog on the place of trees in the work of Valérie Jouve.
12.10.2015 Keith Haring
What hides behind the apparent simplicity of his drawings and his “pop” paintings is a deeply committed art.
11.26.2015 The trees of Atget
It’s at Saint-Cloud in 1921 that photographer Eugène Atget undertook a series named “Coins du Parc” (Corners of Park) which is about some trees neglected by the gardeners.
11.19.2015 A rough guide of Print-Making
Print-making, that is the ability to create an image and then to reproduce it exactly again and again, has been around for many centuries.
10.19.2015 Happy Times of the Theater Gas Lamps!
Legendary theater and movie actor Louis Jouvet remembers the times when gaz lamps were in use for theater stage lighting.
10.12.2015 Outrenoir
Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.
06.25.2015 Pierre Gagnaire : The Citrus Fruits
Elected “the greatest starred chef in the world” by his pairs in 2015, Master French Chef Pierre Gagnaire writes on memento about the citrus fruits …
06.08.2015 Gilles Deleuze
“In this abécédaire, with the letter C for Culture, Gilles Deleuze speaks of incredible letters he received from the paper folders’ club after he’d written a book about philosopher Leibniz” (Claire Parnet)