A new exhibition at the European House of Photography in Paris (Maison Européenne de la Photographie or MEP) showcases two giants of 20th Century photography. These are Japanese photographers Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu. We’re massive fans of their body of work and have a small collection of their books.Continue Reading
. . . . . This video of a real-time walking tour of Paris is awesome. The video covers a 12-mile journey on foot. It’s a journey that lasts five and a half hours and visits many of the French capital’s best-known, most-beloved landmarks and neighborhoods. The video was shotContinue Reading
This space in the main exhibition space at the Palais de Tokio, that wonderful leading-edgy and influential contemporary art museum in Paris, recently had a massive installation work by artist Ulla von Brandenburg. Titled the “The King is Dead,” the beautiful abstract work fills a massive space and at first-glanceContinue Reading
The RR226 by Italian electronics maker Brionvega is a modern-design classic from 1965 that can be found in the permanent collections of some of the world’s leading museums. This one pictured below is in pristine condition and part of the design trove at the Pompidou Centre museum in Paris.
A modern-art classic and an example of the ready-made genre in extreme, French artist Bertrand Lavier’s 1993 “Giulietta (-vue-de-dos)” is a crashed red Alpha Romeo car rescued from a scrapyard. The artwork has a home at the Pompidou Center Museum, the powerhouse modern and contemporary art museum in the BeaubourgContinue Reading
It’s really great to see some fresh street art from Franck Duval, a.k.a., FKDL, in New York City. It’s been a long time since we saw new work from the Paris-based artist in downtown NYC. For a while a few years ago, FKDL’s graphical wheat-paste images of glamourous women were popping upContinue Reading
We were in Paris a few months ago when some ad agency friends in the French capital turned us on to a new and ground-breaking food magazine and restaurants guide that is blowing up in France at the moment. The magazine is called “Fooding,” and it’s providing a fresh approachContinue Reading
A super-cool, vintage-modern Air France airport sign for sale at the famous vide-grenier, a type of French flea market (or marche au puces) on the Rue de Bretagne in the fashionable and art-filled Le Marais neighborhood of Paris.
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