The...
Tamara... de Lempicka...
Suite...
At... the...
Grand Hotel... et de Milan...
Was... restful...
Once again... I am transported to that moment in time... when one comes "face à face"... so to speak with an icon... "l'esprit Lempicka"... by staying in the very suite she stayed in... which was named after her...
Spellbound....
By the... beauty....
Of the... glass art...
At... the...
"MURANO - FRAGILE"...
"Chefs-d'œuvre de verre de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle"...
Exhibition... at the...
Musée Maillol...
I was... reminded...
Of a... hazy morning...
In... Venice...
Keith... Haring's...
Gigantic... works...
Were all over... the Metro walls...
Thought... provoking...
Riveting... posters... drawings...
Untitled painting by Keith Haring (1981)...Keith... would have been...
Pleased... delighted...
Having just visited Haring's exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris... I too... was impressed by his formidable works... displayed not only in the Musée but also in the Metro... for that's where it all started...
Audrey... Hepburn's...
Amazing... eyes...
Were... gazing at me...
With...
That... look...
From the cover... of one of my favourite magazines...
Vanity... Fair...
Maria Callas...
Singing... Puccini's....
Madame Butterfly Act II...
"Un bel di vedremo"...
Is the... closest thing to heaven...
The Diva... touches...
The very core... of a broken heart....
A... woman's...
Fatal... love...
Alain... Delon...
"Un Père... en Colère"...
"An... angry father"...
In a remarkable open letter... published on the 13th of March in the Swiss newspaper "La Tribune de Genève"... his son Alain-Fabien described his father as "violent, egoistic and absent"...
"Merde"...
How... could...
Why... would...
A... son...
Loved, pampered and
"CHAGALL...
Entre... Guerre...
Et... Paix"...
Between... War and Peace...
An... exhibition...
At... the...
Musée du... Luxembourg...
Organised by the... Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais...
"Le.. Tzar...
De la... Dance"...
Mesmeric...
Hypnotic...
A snake charmer... a cobra...
He electrified... his public...
His magnificence... illuminated...
His... chiselled beauty...
Powerful... physique...
A... dark soul...
"He... was unparalleled"...
Patricia... Kaas...
Chante...
Piaf...
L'Olympia... the legendary "Théâtre"... where... "footprints"... echoes... sublime voices of the talented... the famous... the iconic... Parisian artists...
Still... resonate...
"La France perd un immense patriote humaniste"...
"Le Monde"... headlined today...
Stéphane Hessel...20 October 1917 - 26 February 2013...
A diplomat...
Ambassador... writer...
Concentration camp survivor...
Former French resistance fighter...
Died in his sleep... aged 95...
Césars...
The... national...
Film... awards...
Of... France...
The nominations being selected by the committee of the... "Académie des arts et technique du Cinéma"... held at the "Théâtre du Châtelet" in Paris...
"Dans... les pas de...
Marie... Curie"...
Following...
In the... footsteps of...
Marie... Curie...
During an hour and a half watching... a film-documentary on her life journey...
I was enthralled... and in complete awe of this...
Amazing... woman...
Fascinated...
"Portraits... of a Society"...
Jacques-Émile Blanche...
Known... as the...
"Proust... of Painting"...
Was honoured... with an exhibition at the...
Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent...
"Du côté de chez Jacques-Émile Blanche... Un salon à la Belle Époque"...
Blanche frequented from a very young age Parisian artistic circles... becoming French high society's most prestigious portraitist by the end of the 19th century.
Sara... Baras...
A... twirling...
Vision... in red...
Crimson...
A flame... in flesh...
With... passion...
Dancing... prancing...
Strutting...
Tip-tapping her black shoes with a rhythmic staccato... "zapateado"... that was nothing less... than breathtaking...
Riccardo Muti...
Über... conducter...
Appeared... with...
Charlie Rose... on Bloomberg...
A huge treat... for me...
Ever since... I watched him conduct at...
La... Scala...
I was... besotted...
An amazing... experience...
Happened...
On our way... to an exhibition...
Upon... alighting...
From... the metro at the...
Bastille... station...
We came upon... a group of...
Musicians...
"L'Art... en Guerre"...
Two... powerful components...
That... have been...
Inexplicably... bonded...
"L'ombre... de l'histoire"...
The shadows of history... In the dark gloomy entrance... of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris... was a flashback to the September 1938 Munich Agreement... which did nothing whatsoever to hinder or stop Hitler's warped desire to dominate and take over Europe...
A... gypsy...
At... heart...
Having lived... like a nomad...
In many... varied exotic lands...
I immediately identified... with the exhibition at the...
Grand Palais...
"Bohèmes... de Léonard de Vinci à Picasso"...
Entering...
The Louvre's... main entrance...
By way... of I.M. Pei's...
Awesome... glass pyramid...
Which... has become...
As... iconic...
As the magnificent... Eiffel Tower...
The majestic... "Arc de Triomphe"...
We find ourselves... admiring the newly decorated Cour Visconti courtyard...
Stepping into the stunning... new galleries...
Home to the Louvre's... Department of Islamic Art...
The... exhibition...
"Canaletto à Venise...
At the... Musée Maillol...
Under the patronage of...
The City of Venice...
Pays homage to the city... with its first exhibition devoted exclusively to...
At the arched entrance of the Musée Maillol...Canaletto’s... Venetian works...
His paintings capture the intense dazzling light... of Venice... like no other painter...