Tag: Paris

  • Controversial Right-Wing French Culture Minister Stepping Down to Run for Mayor of Paris

    Rachida Dati, France‘s culture minister, is stepping down from her post to run for mayor of Paris in next month’s election, she told the Financial Times in an interview Wednesday. Dati was appointed minister of culture by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in 2024 as part of President Emmanuel Macron’s new-look centrist cabinet, following an election read more

    Controversial Right-Wing French Culture Minister Stepping Down to Run for Mayor of Paris
  • Mitchell Johnson’s Personal Color at Galerie Mercier in Paris

    Announcement Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to March 21. Mitchell Johnson “Red Stairwell (Rue Guisarde)” (2025), 16×24 inches, oil on canvas (©Mitchell Johnson, 2026) In his continued exploration of color, shape, and scale, American painter Mitchell Johnson presents 25 intimate paintings read more

    Mitchell Johnson’s Personal Color at Galerie Mercier in Paris
  • A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism

    Multiple-headed deities, strange woodland feasts, plants with sprite-like faces, and worlds floating on animals’ backs are just a few of the dreamlike occurrences in the work of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). The British-Mexican artist, born into an upper-class family in Lancashire, was fascinated by the notion of “other.” She immersed herself in fairytales and folk stories read more

    A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism
  • Two Paris Museums Get More Than a Dozen Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the organization that stewards the legacy of the iconic artist duo who wrapped large structures in fabric, has donated 14 artworks to two museums in Paris. The artists’ ties to the city are well documented. In 2021, a year after Christo’s death at 84, the artists’ 1962 plan to wrap read more

    Two Paris Museums Get More Than a Dozen Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude