The first retrospective of Edward Hopper in Paris is also one of the most ambitious ever, a look at the artist “in all his complexity” as a painter of light and architecture as well as the loneliness of modern life.
Category: Paris
A mysterious veil of gold and glass now floats permanently over a courtyard in the Louvre. Beneath it are priceless works of Islamic art, many of them now revealed for the first time to the public gaze. The Louvre’s Islamic collection is one of the world’s richest, with pieces created over 13 centuries on three continents.
The French banker Albert Kahn was a financial genius whose high-risk investments made him one of the richest men in Europe by the turn of the century. A lifelong pacifist, Kahn became convinced that a new technology – color photography – could contribute to cross-cultural understanding and world peace. He invested heavily in his dream, sending photographers around the globe between 1909 and 1929 to create an “archive of the planet.”
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris has reopened to the public with a vast triennial exhibition of contemporary art and the ambition to be an “anti-museum.” More than an art space, the new Palais is a vortex dug deep into the haut heart of right bank Paris. Without warning, it funnels the visitor deep underground all the way to Avenue President Wilson on the river Seine. Inside it is unplastered and unpainted, half concrete cathedral, half construction site.