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by diptyque paris

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02.22.2016 Inside a woman’s bag

© Nick Veasey
Along the way

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

La clef des songes (René Magritte, 1898-1967)
Along the way

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 - Platon, 2012 (digital c-print dimensions variable) ©Richard Mosse.  Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Along the way

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…

Fleurs dans un vase en verre avec papillon et scarabée, sur un rebord en pierre (détail) - Nicolaes van Veerendael (1640-1691)
Along the way

It is Eros that rules the rose from the very outset and across all frontiers…

01.07.2016 Symphony for one man alone

En 1966, Maurice Béjart a chorégraphié la Symphonie pour un homme seul au Palais des Papes au Festival d'Avignon.
Along the way

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…

My Purse (©Sarah Katherine, photographer, antiquing nerd, beauty admirer)
Crossed paths

Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.

12.28.2015 Mondrian’s trees

Pommier en fleurs, 1912 (Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944)
Along the way

Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.

12.17.2015 Tree corpus: Valérie Jouve

Sans-titre (Valérie Jouve)
Crossed paths

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

Keith Haring, "Untitled (Subway Drawing)", chalk on paper, 220 x 114 cm, 1983, © Keith Haring Foundation. Collection Udo and Anette Brandhorst.
Along the way

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

"Parc de Saint-Cloud", Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Crossed paths

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

Les quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse, extrait de L'Apocalypse, 1497-98 (Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528)
Along the way

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!

Louis Jouvet (1887-1951),  acteur français, metteur en scène, directeur de théâtre et professeur au Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
Along the way

Legendary theater and movie actor Louis Jouvet remembers the times when gaz lamps were in use for theater stage lighting.

10.12.2015 Outrenoir

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 136 x 136 cm, 24 décembre 1990. Copyright: © Christie's Images, 2015.
Along the way

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

Pamplemousse © Jacques Gavard
Crossed paths

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

Gilles Deleuze et Claire Parnet (photo © Marie-Laure Decker)
Along the way

“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)

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