In January 2022, the Paris art market landscape was suddenly upended, when the FIAC was replaced by Art Basel, under the aegis of the MCH group. An initial assessment of the eagerly awaited first edition of Paris+ in late October.
Deprived of the fair in 2020 and 2021, art lovers can look forward to the second edition of District 13 this year, which is refocusing on French galleries and is once again being held at the Hôtel Drouot.
Covid’s aftershocks have profoundly reshaped the art fair landscape. All the operators have revised their strategy for September 2022. What will the autumn fair schedule look like in Paris?
The Louis Vuitton Foundation kept its promise that the exhibition celebrating the centenary of the birth of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) would be an event.
At the helm of the French National Museum of the Middle Ages and its renovation project since 2019, this eminent medievalist has just inaugurated the new layout, on May 12.
The Hôtel Drouot welcomes visitors to the new installment of its regular collegial exhibition, known as the “Œuvres Choisies” (“Selected Works”). The exhibition presents some of the most exciting works to come up for sale in the upcoming months.
Given the resurgence of the pandemic and new variants of Covid-19, the art market is reorganizing its agenda for the first half of the year with intensified frequency. Clashes in store.
The Paris studio of the artist, who died seven years ago, has just opened to the public. Her splendid work, which fell into oblivion in the 2000s, raised cement to the rank of a noble material.
The director of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Musée du Louvre reveals what is at stake with 18 exhibitions deployed throughout France to show the public all the beauties of this civilization.
Though the two previous editions were canceled, the third edition of District 13—purely French this year—now consolidates the happy marriage between street art and Drouot.
Two and a half years after taking up his post at the Jeu de Paume, the new director talks about his broad and varied concept of photography, his development strategy and his initial assessment after the pandemic.
The Galerie Mitterrand in Paris bills its new show as an echo of the “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960’s” exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.
The sculptor of the Second French Empire, Charles Cordier, produced a large number of Orientalist busts and statues. Our two master models were used to create emblematic works.
The delights of the fabulous collection of Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Thani, cousin of the Emir of Qatar, are now on display for the next 20 years in the Hôtel de la Marine, the former French Royal Garde-meuble. Its chief curator looks back at its origins and explains why it ended up in Paris.
The opening of the Drouot season is marked by “Oeuvres Choisies”, on view from September 21 – 23 in Room 9, a particularly sumptuous selection of aristocratic finery as well as some choice memorabilia from French celebrities past and present.
In association with objets d’art experts, the 33rd Paris Rare Book Fair promises to whet our curiosity—a welcome antidote to the ongoing health crisis.
Art Paris is opening the art fair season in France, attracting a rising number of galleries.
An open-air art fair dedicated to Non-Western arts, which has become a major event since its creation in 2002, Parcours des Mondes is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and is as eagerly awaited as ever by art lovers seeking gems unearthed by galleries.
September will be packed with an unprecedented concentration of fairs and shows, starting with Art Basel, whose parent event has been postponed until late September. Paris is no exception.
One of the art world’s leading events is making an eagerly awaited comeback and celebrating its 30th anniversary at the Palais Brongniart.
Paris’s oldest museum has reopened in a completely refurbished building, where the collections are now strikingly set off. For its director, both everything and nothing has changed at the Carnavalet.
Co-organized with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, the ambitious event planned for November aims to mix traders, high-end jewelry and “haute facture”. But all remains to be built, in a particularly complicated context.
The palatial mansion on Place de la Concorde in Paris is soon opening to the public after years of controversy and a painstaking restoration campaign. The result is a journey halfway between poetry and scientific rigor, underpinned by a completely new financial management method
On June 16, galleries in the 9th arrondissement of Paris will join forces for the 20th Biennial “Quartier Art Drouot.”
Initially scheduled for January 23, the opening of the Pinault collection’s new flagship museum in the former Paris Bourse de Commerce building had been delayed by the lockdown. We examined the architecture of this structure rooted in history.
Around 30 works attributed to some of the 16th century’s most illustrious artists immerse us in the Renaissance, from Normandy to Sicily, France’s primary art centers and the Italian peninsula.
When she became mayor of Paris in 2015, Anne Hidalgo made the restoration of religious monuments the spearhead of her heritage policy. Her “church plan”, which ended in 2020, is somewhat of a mixed bag.
The Biennale de Paris [soon to be replaced by EX.Paris – Ed.] has ceased to exist without reaching its 50th anniversary.
The reappointment of Jean-Luc Martinez as head of the Louvre was dictated by a certain logic. With a determined spirit that gained him not a few enemies, he set about reconfiguring the landscape.
Don’t forget the lavish decorations by Pizzi, Wilmotte, Graf and Grange, September’s warmth under the glass roof of the light-drenched Grand Palais and the head-spinning maze of huge aisles where one could easily lose one’s way—for the Biennale Paris, formerly the Biennale des Antiquaires, is no more.
This spring, Emmanuel Perrotin will open his ninth space in the heart of Paris’s Golden Triangle focusing on the purchase and resale of works on the secondary market. Contemporary art galleries are increasingly taking on this double role.
In March 1886, the Dutch painter arrived in Paris, where he lived for two years. One hundred and thirty-five years later to the month, a key work from this seminal and productive period is back on the market.
Like all cultural institutions, the Rodin Museum in Paris is struggling with Covid-19’s repercussions. But the museum has a unique asset enabling it to weather the storm: its status as the rightful owner of Rodin’s works.
The squabble between the Louvre and the Cy Twombly Foundation over the renovation of the Salle des Bronzes, whose ceiling the artist frescoed in 2010, might be a run-in whose full flavor is only relished by Parisians and New Yorkers.
The European Commission terms Macron and Merkel’s agreement as a “crucial political step”.
Financial institutions, including banks, are moving out from London in the wake of Brexit.
Is sport actually so different from business, and what do top managers find attractive in the field of sport? Some answers to these questions can be obtained from Thomas Savare, Chief Executive Officer of Oberthur Fiduciaire and President of famous Stade Francais Rugby Club.
After the terror attacks in Paris, France targeted a Syrian city Raqqa for its airstrikes.
The President of France sees the attacks as “an act of war” while the ISIS claims responsibility of the terror and swears to destroy “the enemies of Allah”.
