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...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...