Rembrandt and the Ancients: The Met and the Louvre Announce a Major Exhibition for 2027–2028
The Met has announced, with the Louvre, an exhibition on Rembrandt’s lifelong engagement with antiquity: New York in 2027–28, Paris in 2028.
Voyage en cuisine iranienne: A Tasting Lecture at ARTE’s Et maintenant ? Festival
At the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, the food geographer Pierre Raffard led a tasting lecture on Iranian cuisine, built around dishes from the restaurant Namak.
Namak’s Founders on Cooking Persian Food for Paris
Rod Pourcyrus and Arthur Comte, the co-founders of the Paris restaurant Namak, on adapting Persian cuisine to French tastes.
Video Games & Music at the Philharmonie de Paris: The Music You Are the Hero Of
Until 1 November, the Philharmonie de Paris is giving a gallery to a subject that rarely gets one: the music of video games. Video Games & Music, subtitled La musique dont vous êtes le héros (“the music you are the hero of”), follows that music from its first electronic beeps to symphonic and experimental work. […]
The 90s at Tate Britain: Edward Enninful Restages the Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, guest-curated by Edward Enninful, brings nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers into one room-by-room argument: that in 1990s Britain, art and fashion became a single cultural force.
Sculpting Colour at the Louvre: Spain’s Painted Saints Step Out of Zurbarán’s Shadow
Twenty-three polychrome wood sculptures from Valladolid’s national museum, among them a complete life-size processional paso by Gregorio Fernández, open in the Hall Napoléon beside the Zurbarán retrospective. The pairing is the point.
Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her
The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon
From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.
André Teymouri on Painting Men Who Don’t Exist
André Teymouri paints from a small set of fragments — a jawline glimpsed on the subway, a beard seen on the street, a stranger’s photo on Instagram — and lets them settle into a face that belongs to no one in particular. The men in his paintings are bearded, broad-shouldered, often shirtless, and almost always […]
Nicole Meeuws on Painting After a Near-Death Experience
Nicole Meeuws had never painted. In 2015, a medical emergency in an Austrian hospital brought her close to death, and she returned with what she describes as vivid memories of somewhere else. Painting followed. It was not a plan. Ten years on, she works from northern Greece, near Drama. The canvases are built dot by […]