Titian and Cesaria

A quick post since that’s all I seem to have time for these days…
Last weekend, my wife and I visited the Titian, Veronese, Tintoret show at the Louvre (http://tinyurl.com/y94p5pf) and it was fantastic. About 50 paintings or so, all well documented with intelligent themes and generally good lighting. There was a large crowd but there [...]

Century of Jazz at Quai Branly

A quick review of the “Un siecle du jazz” exposition at Musée quai Branly in Paris (ending 28 june 2009):
A little disappointing to be honest this expo. It was really detailed on the origins of Jazz in the early 20th century but how they came up with a century while starting in 1917, I can’t [...]

Recent Expos – Di Chirico and Egypt: Portal to the Heavens

Gotta get back in the expo swing because all the majors are ending in the next 8 weeks or so.
This past week I caught two:
Giorgio di Chirico at Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It was an interesting expo and rather huge (150 paintings!) with good literature. That being said, it seems [...]

Recently Visited Paris Art Expos – Whirlwind Review

I had a couple of days off (no work and kid w/his grandparents) and profited from the occasion to catch up on the Paris Art Expo scene. Here’s what I saw in the order I saw them:
Musée Cernuschi – “Courtisanes, Part 2″: This one was honestly a little disappointing. I already blogged about the Part [...]

Renaissance Faces at the National Gallery in London

This weekend I visited the latest exhibit at the National Gallery in London “Renaissance Faces” with my wife. We enjoyed it but it was a little less spectacular than previous exhibits we saw there (in the past few years, the shows on Velazquez, El Greco, Rafael, and Titian come to mind). Most of the greats [...]

Mantegna Expo

The Louvre has an extraordinary expo on about the 15th century master Mantegna. A must.
It would take about two hours to really do justice to this event but I only had about an hour (plus I peaked quickly at the Picasso/Delacroix/Femmes d’Alger expo on the 1st floor of the Denon wing…) so I did the [...]

Avedon Expo

A quick belated review of the Richard Avedon expo at the Musée Jeu de Paume in Paris…
I visited this about 3 weeks ago and just now am getting around to blogging about it. There are about 200 photos from the entire career of this American photographer of fashion and poverty.
The first section of the exposition [...]

Just starting (belatedly) blogging…

Hopefully, I’ll keep up with it this time after several abortive attempts. I hope to talk about various technical topics but also more cultural ones as well.
I visited theMusée du quai Branlyin Paris today. Fantastic collection of non-European art and crafts. Almost like a Louvre for Asian, Amerindian, Polynesian, African and Aboriginal collections. Well documented [...]