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"Seated Nude with Necklace": a painting from Modigliani's only solo exhibition in his lifetime, held in December 1917 at Berthe Weill's gallery in Paris
The Paris police judged the nudes displayed in the window indecent and closed the show. That is to say, the exhibition was quite literally shut down on account of this very painting. Sotheby's is offering it with an estimate of around 60 million dollars
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this summer: London, Paris, New York
If your holiday happens to land you in one of the three art capitals, here are three exhibitions for each, worth carving out half a day for. London 🎨 Frida: The Making of an Icon. Tate Modern, from 22 June. More than 130 works by Frida Kahlo and a separate strand
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
Five years ago I watched this seventeenth-century "Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist", attributed to the French painter Jacques Stella, go under the hammer and fail to sell at an estimate of 60,000 to 90,000 euros
Five years ago I watched this seventeenth-century "Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist", attributed to the French painter Jacques Stella, go under the hammer and fail to sell at an estimate of 60,000 to 90,000 euros. Today I see the
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
According to tradition, the noble and learned Catherine sought a bridegroom who would surpass her in wealth, wisdom and beauty
According to tradition, the noble and learned Catherine sought a bridegroom who would surpass her in wealth, wisdom and beauty. A hermit monk told her that he knew just such a young man: Jesus. After she received baptism, Catherine was granted a vision of the Virgin with the Child. Christ
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The installation La Caverne du Pont-Neuf on the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris
On the night of 20 to 21 May 2026 the bridge was covered by an inflatable structure of printed fabric depicting snow-covered cliffs, 120 metres long and about 18 metres high. Its form was inspired by the quarries from which the stone used to build Paris was extracted. But
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The artist Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of the second wave of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at the age of 97
Le Parc worked with light, mirrors, movement and optical effects: suspended mobiles, vibrating light installations, mirrored rooms, environments of projected light that "came to life" only in the presence of the viewer. He was guided by a single principle: art should turn the spectator from a passive observer
Cinema · Books · Heritage · Paris
The French to make a film about the Louvre robbery
The French are to make a film about the Louvre robbery. The director is Romain Gavras, and the source is a book by three journalists from Le Parisien, Le Monde and Paris Match, entitled Main Basse sur le Louvre, or “A Hand on the Louvre”, published by Flammarion this week.
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Jacques Chirac 📌
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Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris!
Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris! Officials very rarely, but still occasionally, manage to discharge their duties properly; in this case they needed the direct participation of the residents of the neighbourhood, who proposed precisely this design in place of the
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Paris in May 1968
Paris in May 1968. The corner of Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue Soufflot. Nowadays the spot is occupied by something along the lines of a Burger King
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In the Marais, inside the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, vintage clothes are sold at weekends
In the Marais, inside the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, vintage clothes are sold at weekends. There are usually plenty of tourists here, eager to capture a thoroughly Parisian combination: Baroque-Classicist architecture and fashionable dress. This is a working church, which shares its premises with a second-