This is my latest from my belle France; And it is that time again to tell you my latest rants about some news from France. An eventful post in my blog that I have enjoyed together with you for the last 14+ years , And for those non Roman CCCXCIII is 393 ! ,I have come back to new posts and continue the saga of this series with news of my belle France ! Of course chosen by me; there are many others. Hope you enjoy the post as I.
David Hockney, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, The work of the English artist David Hockney with an exhibition that we can confirm will be held from Wednesday, April 9 to Monday, September 1, 2025. The retrospective should focus on the last twenty-five years of Hockney’s creation. The exhibition should therefore present both paintings and digital creations, with a particular focus on Normandy, where he has lived since 2019, but also works evoking the Grand Canyon or Yorkshire. And for fans of cult and chlorine, know that the paintings « A Bigger Splash » and « Portrait of an Artist » (Pool with Two Figures), painted in 1967 and 1972 respectively, will both be present. Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi,Bois de Boulogne, Paris 16éme.
Agnès Varda, de-ci, de là, at the Carnavalet Museum from Wednesday April 9 to Sunday August 24, 2025 on rue Daguerre. artery of the 14éme, with an exhibition whose ferment will be located in the courtyard-studio of her pink house, planted at no, 88. A courtyard that will have been, for more than sixty years, the creative laboratory and the rear base of the filmmaker’s exploration of the street and the city. With a base of 130 partly unpublished photographs, but also film extracts, objects that belonged to her or sculptures from the archives of her production company Ciné-Tamaris, we will be tossed between her first exhibition in the courtyard in 1954, her preparations for her classics (Cléo de 5 à 7 or Daguerreotypes), until the last times when the courtyard became a garden again. Carnavalet Museum, 16 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 3éme.
Paris Noir, at the Centre Pompidou , From March 19 to June 30, 2025, Pompidou will present Paris Noir, celebrating the works of 150 Afro-descendant artists in arty Paris in the second half of the 20C. Through this retrospective, which will explore many artistic movements (surrealism, Afro-Atlantic abstraction, free figuration, etc.), the institution will attempt to question the identity awareness of these artists, their desires for emancipation, but also their key role in the “redefinition of modernities and postmodernities”. Also worth seeing: five installations, and as many contemporary perspectives on the subject, created especially for the exhibition by the artists Bili Bidjocka, Valérie John, Nathalie Leroy Fiévée, Jay Ramier and Shuck One. Centre Pompidou, rue Saint-Martin, Paris 4éme.
Robert Doisneau, Instants donnés, at the Musée Maillol. The museum will dedicate a retrospective to him from April 17 to October 12, 2025, with 250 black and white and color photographs, from his (sacred) collection of 450,000 photos. What will we be looking at there? The Parisian suburbs of the 1930s (he was born in Gentilly), the artists’ studios in which he discovered (by chance) Maillol’s work, or even the post-war fashion world. Bécot, Doisneau, for this exhibition. Musée Maillol, 59-61 rue de Grenelle, Paris 7éme
Dans le flou, une autre vision de l’art de 1945 à nos jours, Or in the Blur, Another Vision of Art from 1945 to the Present Day, at the Musée de l’Orangerie from April 30 to August 18, 2025 Starting from its aesthetic roots , Monet, his eye disease and his Nebulous Water Lilies , this thematic exhibition brings together pictorial works, videos, photographs and installations to show the importance of blur, confusion and uncertainty in contemporary creation. By creating a welcome distance from reality, blur allows us to reinterpret a world where certainties are eroding. Musée de l’Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris 1er.
Azzedine Alaïa, Thierry Mugler at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation, 18 Rue de la Verrerie, 4éme Paris Going to June 29, 2025, Their clothes, both day and evening, echo each other, dictating a four-handed fashion, the signature of contemporary fashions. A couturier and collector at the origin of an immense and recognized fashion heritage, Azzedine Alaïa has preserved more than 200 Thierry Mugler-branded creations, around forty of which are exhibited here in dialogue with his own archives. Based in Paris since 1956, Azzedine Alaïa has acquired the reputation of a great tailor, heir to an academic tradition. For his fall-winter 1979-80 collection, Mugler invited Alaïa to create the series of tuxedos for his show. This collaboration encouraged Alaïa to become a designer himself. Thierry Mugler strongly encouraged him and showed him support that would prove to be both crucial and unwavering. Travel companions for a decade that they stylistically preempted, Alaïa and Mugler freely let influences act on their mutual creations.
In the great Monopoly of cherry blossoms, the Parc de Sceaux is certainly the Rue de la Paix! As spring begins to show its nose, the oversized park planted in the Hauts de Seine 92 has released the dates of its Hanami celebration, this Japanese festival honoring the flowering period of the sakura (cherry trees). The 2025 vintage will bud from April 5 to 21, 2025 covering the estate with a whole bunch of plans related to the event and Japanese culture. As every year, the main attraction will take place in the park: Sceaux has 144 cherry trees in the 180 hectares of the estate, with, from a colorimetric point of view, rather white flowers in the northern grove and pink ones in the south. Parc de Sceaux 8 avenue Claude-Perrault, Sceaux, Hauts de Seine 92.
Composed of half a million colorful tulips. And there is no better time than the end of March and April to see them in all their splendor. Every year for more than ten years, three of the gardens of the Château de Cheverny have been adorned with two fabulous ribbons of 500,000 tulips in shades of red, pink and yellow. 250 meters long and 12 meters wide, they stand out like an open-air work of art and offer a splendid spectacle to all visitors. A natural painting that requires the work of seven gardeners throughout the year. At the gardens of the Château de Cheverny, Avenue du Château , Cheverny , Webpage: https://www.chateau-cheverny.fr/nos-evenements/agenda/item/450-jardin-de-tulipes.html
The passerelle du pont de Bir-Hakeim or footbridge is repaired and reopened to pedestrians, The Bir-Hakeim footbridge, spans Avenue du Président-Kennedy, in the 16éme arrondissement of Paris,
The Araignée rouge or Red Spider, one of the monumental works of the business district of La Defénse, has lost its splendor despite a renovation barely ten years old. It will therefore be repainted once again in 2026, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Alexander Calder and his installation. The American artist will however never have seen his Red Spider installed, erected the following month. This monumental sculpture, 15 meters high and weighing 75 tons, a sort of counterpart to the Flamingo in Chicago, has become, over the decades, one of the emblematic works of art of the French business district.
On the border between the 2éme, 3éme and 10éme arrondissements of Paris, these are two splendid arches that have seen the ravages of time pass by. And for good reason, they have dominated the boulevards of Sébastopol and Strasbourg for over 350 years. On one side, the Porte Saint-Denis, on the other, the Porte Saint-Martin, located less than 200 meters from each other. Time to restore this very damaged space of doors A project that, if voted, should see the light of day by 2030, and seems to rather appeal to local residents.
“How to become a Parisian in one hour” by Olivier Giraud still at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, 24 boulevard Poissonnière 9éme arrondissement of Paris, From June 12, 2021 to July 25, 2025, If the reputation of Parisians is well established in France and abroad, Olivier Giraud’s excellent show will allow you to better decode the mannerisms, habits and other attitudes of these French people who are not like the others! And for Parisians, the mirror of your daily life awaits you… A show 100% in English but which remains easily accessible to the dunces in the back row. Come laugh at the behavior of Parisians in an international atmosphere, Dress code for Parisians: don’t change your habits, come in black! A very popular show know him met first his girlfriend and not surprise still going on for about 20 years !Webpage:https://oliviergiraud.com/
Michelin-starred chef Jean Imbert, winner of season 3 of “Top Chef,” has just opened his tenth restaurant, in an unexpected location: Disneyland Paris. Dense foliage of an impenetrable forest on the walls, deep green curtains, flickering candles… But here, it’s the ceiling that’s most impressive: an immense and incredible Murano glass chandelier, with intertwined branches, populated with colorful birds, a “Snow White” atmosphere. It overlooks almost its entire length of the small room with 55 seats. You have just entered « La forêt secrète » or the secret forest, the third restaurant of Disneyland Hotel,
The recipe makes your cheeks tingle: a pastry made with three layers of puff pastry and two layers of pastry cream, all drizzled with the topping that makes us salivate. Your choice: salted butter caramel, exotic caramel , passion fruit, mango, pineapple or homemade praline 69%. an ultra-gourmet recipe for millefeuille by Philippe Conticini ,Bar à Millefeuille by Philippe Conticini, 31 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth 3éme
There you go folks, my latest round of my some news from France coming to you freely by the road warrior travel guy . Again, hope you enjoy this post as I.
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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