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08  décembre     17h43
Gerard Richter Paris Retrospective
staff    The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosts a major retrospective of the German artist Gerhard Richter (until March 2, 2026). The exhibition brings together many of RichterÅ iconic figurative images based on photographs along with his complex abstractions. The exhibition documents approximately six...
27  novembre     15h36
American Art, French Thinking
staff    Echo Delay Reverb, Art Américain, Pensées Francophones, at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo contemporary art museum, revisits various ways in which successive generations of artists in the United States have been influenced by social, political and theoretic concepts shaped in France (to February 15, 2026)....
20  novembre     17h28
Jazzy Dance Rendez Vous
staff    Chanson, tap dance, joie de vivre with a Frenchy jazzy cabaret in Paris’ timeless Montmartre? Sounds good to us Check out the Parisian Time Step show-December 6, 2025- from tap dancer Ruby Boukabou and singer dancer Wendy Lee Taylor (Lido de Paris) with piano by Philippe Petit . The show is a fun...
20  septembre     00h00
Paris Cemeteries, the Saints Go Marching
Thirza Vallois    November in Paris begins with yet another long weekend away from work le pont de la Toussaint (All Saints Day) one of many strewn along the French calendar year. As Paris florists bring out their stock of chrysanthemum for the annual commemoration of Parisians now gone, and as other Parisians pack...
26  août     09h45
Robert Doisneau’s Instants Donnés
staff    Musée Maillol hosts a large retrospective revisiting the work of French humanist photographer Robert Doisneau (1912-1999). The exhibition includes Doisneau’s iconic images such as Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville and hundreds of rarely exhibited photos (selected from his personal archive of over 450...
20  août     00h00
Saying Cheese in French
Laura Van Iterson    The tastes of autumn& Fall is a lovely time to stroll through a Paris market and take the opportunity to reconnect with local merchants. Your cheese vendor, wine shop keeper and greengrocer can help you celebrate France’s autumn bounty by pointing out in-season foods that complement each other,...
05  août     15h41
Best Paris Baguette 2025
staff    Fresh bread from the local boulangerie is one of the things we love about Paris... especially the baguette. French baguettes received UNESCO’s world heritage status in 2022. According to the National Federation of French Bakers more than 6 billion baguettes are baked each year in France. The prize...
01  août     10h08
American West Revisité in Paris
staff    The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson revisits Richard Avedon’s In The American West with an exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of this iconic photo book (until October 12, 2025). Although several of the images from this series such as Texas Rattlesnake Skinner are extremely well known, what...
30  juillet     14h36
Bohème Cooking: French Vegetarian Recipes
staff    France back in the day wasn’t a very vegetarian friendly place. When Carrie Solomon first moved to France 20 years ago, it was far from la belle vie for a vegetarian immersing herself in local cuisine. Restaurants promoted nose-to-tail cooking and chefs had yet to start normalizing farm-to-table...
28  juillet     20h15
Plat du Jour
staff    Susan Herrmann Loomis’ cookbook Plat du Jour: French Dinners Made Easy is a virtual journey to culinary France via recipes, photos, anecdotes and tips. From French plat du jour means dish of the day. Loomis is talking about those dishes you find on handwritten menus outside French bistros or cafés,...
21  juillet     13h14
Paris’ Secret Vineyards
Thirza Vallois    Until recently, much of Paris was a collection of villages, fragments of which can still be detected by the sharp observer. Needless to say, their wine-loving inhabitants covered a substantial portion of their territory with vineyards& to everyone’s joy. Montmartre According to legend, the area...
11  juillet     17h21
The River That Made Paris
staff    The Seine is the most romantic river in the world. She encourages us to dream, to linger, to flirt, to fall in love& says Elaine Sciolino author of The Seine, The River That Made Paris. A melange of historical vignettes, personal antidotes and poetic quotes spiced with photos and illustrations,...
10  juillet     16h11
Half An Hour From Paris
staff    Many guides claim to be for and by insiders, but this one truly is. Annabel Simms living in Paris since 1991 delights in exploring the Paris countryside by train and sharing ideas with her friends for discovering little-known travel gems. This summer she updated the book with two new chapters...
15  juin     20h15
36 Hours in Paris
staff    Only in Paris for a few days and overwhelmed by the options? Follow this suggested itinerary for an unforgettable trip. The following is an extract from Ruby Boukabou’s The Architecture Lover’s Guide to Paris (White Owl Books), a fabulous new guide book catering to both armchair travelers dreaming...
25  mai     17h43
Inventing Haute Couture
staff    The exhibition Worth, Inventer la haute couture at the Petit Palais revisits how Englishman Charles Frederick Worth (1825-1895) became a key figure in the history of fashion and the founder of a fashion house that became the epitome of Parisian luxury (to Sept 7, 2025). Worth founded his eponymous...