Tag: Paris

  • Mary Cassatt between Paris & New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy – book review

    This beautifully illustrated book considers the importance of the American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt, who moved to Paris, spending time in the company of impressionists and influencing tastes in her native US

  • Gaudí

    Whether you consider him a madman or a genius, there is no doubt that Gaudí was responsible for a slew of incredible buildings in Barcelona. This retrospective, with three rooms devoted to the Sagrada Família alone, aims to aims to…

  • Albert Edelfelt and Akseli Gallen-Kallela

    Can art create a country? Two concurrent exhibitions in Paris showcase the artists who forged Finland’s identity against Russian dominance

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: Swinguerra

    Fact and fiction overlap in this documentary-style film, as mainly black and LGBT characters use dance as a way to assert themselves in a country whose president is openly homophobic

  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp

    The passion and excitement of this multidisciplinary artist and designer shine through in an uplifting and joyous show

  • Jens Fänge – interview: ‘I try to come to a painting from a different angle each time’

    As he exhibits new work in Paris, the Swedish painter Jens Fänge talks about assemblage, the structure of dreams, and a childhood encounter with piscine mortality

  • Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre

    This fantastic exhibition of belle époque posters, by Parisian artists who used developments in colour lithography and the burgeoning advertising industry to create celebrity for themselves and the stars of cabaret and stage, is now online, delivering the joys of…

  • Pin-Ups: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity

    In these prints of Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries bear witness to the enduring appeal of illusion, suggestion and nostalgia

  • Renoir Father and Son: Painting and Cinema

    An exhibition exploring the shared motifs, subjects and settings of paintings and films by Pierre-August Renoir and his film director son Jean demonstrates how all too often, what in youth we think we want to escape, in adulthood we want…

  • Modigliani

    This extraordinary retrospective unites Modigliani’s portraits and sculpture with the largest collection of his nude paintings ever shown together in the UK, as well as allowing visitors a virtual reality tour of the artist’s Paris studio