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Giant funfair in Paris ? La Foire du Trône ? from 3rd April ? 31st May 2010

No need to travel nearly an hour to Disneyland when you’ve got 350 attractions on your doorstep… Like the ambience of an traditional-style funfair, with ferris wheels, candy floss and giant stuffed toys? Then the Foire du Trône is for you! On a large stretch of land at the edge of the Bois de Vincennes (on [...]

Rooms With a View, an photo exhibition by Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme at the LM Gallery from 19th March ? 25th April 2010

I can barely remember what I was doing last week, but those of you with more athletic minds may remember that Tatiana did the very first special commission for our photo project and exhibition in 2007. With her new exhibition she shows that photos that initially convinced us that she would be very much at [...]

The Albert Kahn museum celebrates the 150th anniversay of his birth

Tons of events and a spiffing new website with light boxes on a dark background (hmmm…). One of our favourite places in Paris gets a youthful reboot by looking 150 years into the past. Here are the details… The Albert Kahn museum and gardens have a special place in our heart. They’re unique. We visited the [...]

Meroë, Empire on the Nile, an exhibition at the Louvre from 26th March ? 6th September 2010

I have to admit that before today I have never hear of Meroë, but a quick enquiry on the web shows that it’s a city discovered by French explorer Frédéric Cailliaud in 1822. This exhibition is the first to concentrate on the town, with 200 pieces that showcase the majesty of this ancient civilisation and [...]

Living Colors, a fresh new shopping fair at the Cartonnerie, 27th & 28th March 2010

In a space that’s rare in Paris (kind of like a giant log cabin), 25 designers, artists and go-getters are preparing a weekend to wash that grey right out of your face… So – the press release asks – are you « Fluo Kids » (has to be flashy, has to snap), « Sweet flights of fancy » (like a [...]

Exhibition & signing by Patrick Tourneboeuf at the Librairie de la Galerie 12th March 2010

The photographer looking after after special commission for this year’s edition of our photo project and showing some of his photos – and signing them! – in Paris this month… We’ve told you about our great photo project numerous times, and especially the exciting 2010 edition here. Each year a photographer is commissioned to present a [...]

Sex, death and sacrifice, an exhibition at the Quai Branly museum, 9th March ? 23rd May 2010

Bravo to the brilliant PR person who came up with the title for this exhibition; hip, hype, funky (for what is – after all – ceramics). But – fair enough – these pottery objects do reveal an astonishing link that the Mochica people established between religion, power, sexuality and death… For the very first time in [...]

Meijer de Haan, the Hidden Master, an exhibition at the Musée d?Orsay from 16th March ? 20th June 2010

Although the painter Meijer de Haan (1852-1895) is mainly known for the often mysterious portraits of him painted by his ‘friend’ Paul Gauguin, his body of work, started in his native Holland, then continued mainly in France, remains largely unknown…. De Haan was, however, an important figure in Gauguin’s circle during the late1880s. [...]

Crime and Punishment exhibition at the Musée d?Orsay from 16th March ? 27th June 2010

The title explains most of the subject: this new exhibition shows two centuries of art, starting in 179 when  Louis-Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau lobbied for the death penalty to be abolished, and stops at 30th September 1981, the day onwhich the death penalty was finally abolished in France. By the way, the museum warns that [...]

We have a link with the Oscars®. Sort of. And it involves food.

Our link with the Oscars®? No, Angelina and Brad don’t stay with us, yet (perhaps they will at the HBJ 2010?), but we are rooting for French film A Prophet by Jacques Audiard. It’s just won 9 (more) awards here, and is France’s official entry for the Oscars®. And why are we telling you this? Because [...]