Posted in paris on Jun 28th, 2011
The story of the formation of the Doors is well known. California, Manzarek meets Morrison at UCLA film school. They jam, do drugs, record good albums, do more drugs and commit all kind excesses until a never clarified death terminates this story. The next contradiction was outstanding, Surviving band members decide to continue and publish [...]
Posted in paris on Jun 16th, 2011
From 24th to the 26th of June The Solidays Festival for the prevention of AIDS will be held in the Hippodrome de Longchamp in Paris. The festival is organized by the Solidarity Association against AIDS to collect proceeds to help lower-income sectors that are affected by this virus in France and abroad. The Festival brings [...]
Posted in paris on Apr 13th, 2011
Alongside the retrospective of the work of German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschimidt, the Louvre Museum has dedicated a space for the exhibition of the monumental sculptures of British artist Tony Cragg. Figure out / Figure in is on until the 24th of October, and is located in the part of the museum dedicated to the [...]
Posted in paris on Apr 12th, 2011
Every now and then, artists come along whose main mission task could be described as a denial of progress, in terms of the history of art. Which is quite possibly the case of the contemporary of Alberto Durero, who we are going to call (to avoid any confusion) Matthias Grünewald de Aschaffenburg – or simply, [...]
Posted in paris on Mar 31st, 2011
In a previous entry in this blog we left Wilde in 1883 in his first Parisian season changing his image and abandoning what he called with incomparable irony and charm “first period”, a transformation capped off by this new brand and highly original haircut that was an inspiration and model the bust of Antinous from [...]
Posted in paris on Mar 25th, 2011
Hundreds of young women today are willing to be recruited for roller derby, a sport that until recently has been restricted to only men due to its velocity and the movements, that are a little brutal and dangerous. The male physique is more adapted to the hits and falls that happen during these crazy races. [...]
Posted in paris on Mar 15th, 2011
Between October and December 1891, shortly before the London opening of Lady Windermere’s Fan sparked an amazing four year period that was the peak of his career, (and just after the massive scandal of The Picture of Dorian Gray, his masterpiece inspired in large part by the decadence of Huysman’s À Rebours), Oscar Wilde spent [...]
Posted in paris on Mar 8th, 2011
Women in Orient, an exhibition that examines and displays the other side of women from northern Syria to the Sinai peninsula with a collection of 150 traditional costumes and ornaments, selected by Christian Lacroix and under the recognizance of Hana Chidiac. The exhibition will be open from February until May 15 at the Musée du [...]
Posted in paris on Mar 4th, 2011
Between the 18th and the 21st of March, the Expo Porte de Versailles will host the 31st Paris Book Salon. As with every year, the event will be a gathering of national and international editors, publishers, and writers, with activities such as poetry and short story readings for both adults and children, as well as all the very latest [...]
Posted in paris on Feb 11th, 2011
In the Halles Musée Carnavalet in Paris there is an exhibition Trip to the capital, which shows the tradition and innovation of the work of Louis Vuitton through luggage. The exhibition will be open until February 27, 2011; there are two main aspects of this designer: his knowledge and his technique used in the construction of trunks and suitcases, and the aesthetic contribution of his designs are admired til today. The exhibition brings good taste and style of travel luggage Vuitton imposed to our times. Vuitton, according to legend, walked 400 miles to get to Paris and began to work as an assistant for a luggage manufacturer, standing to the point that Napoleon III hired him to do the trunks and bags for his wife, Empress Eugenia. His first trunks and [...]
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