Topic: “Paris”

Radical & vivid

On “Henri Edmond Cross dans la Lumière du Var,” at Saint-Tropez’s Musée de l’Annonciade.

On “Berthe Morisot and the Art of the Eighteenth Century” at Musée Marmottan Monet.

On “The Manuscripts of the Dukes of Bourbon” at the Musée Condé, Paris.

On “Beyond Rembrandt: Prints from the Dutch Golden Century” at the Musée Condé, Paris.

On Houellebecq, cross-Channel rivalry & Sophie Calle.

On Nicolas de Staël at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.

On “Treasures in black & white” at the Petit Palais, Paris.

On “Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language,” at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

On a French identity crisis, The Waste Land & Rachmaninoff’s rock-and-roll side.

On “A New Art: Metamorphoses of Jewelry 1880–1914” at the School of Jewelry Arts, Paris.