Intimacy in Art and Among Artists
July 14, 2022
Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown— Can a friendship forged in your early twenties change the course of your life and career? For members of the Nabi brotherhood, an… READ MORE
Tag: Paris
The Modernism of Hector Guimard
August 25, 2021
Hector Guimard (1867-1942) was one of France’s greatest Art Nouveau architect/designers. In an exhibition organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in… READ MORE
Long Distance Affair: Latin American Artists in the “City of Light”
May 18, 2018
Interview with author Michele Greet By David Ebony At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was electric in many ways. Electric street lights replaced gas lamps, and the hyper-energized… READ MORE
Open letter to Président François Hollande Concerning the Current State of the Centre Pompidou
November 29, 2016
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’s iconic Centre Pompidou in Paris will celebrate its 40th anniversary in January 2017. Francesco Dal Co, author of our newly published book on the building,… READ MORE
Patrick Modiano’s Paris
August 25, 2015
Mark Polizzotti— The Paris of Patrick Modiano’s fictions is a city that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. There is a character and a topology typical of his version… READ MORE
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