Art and Culture
Berenice Abbott exhibition at the Jeu de Paume
from 21st February – 29th April 2012
Inspired by Atget to document the profound change happening to her favourite city (New York), Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was also Man Ray’s assistant during her time in Paris.
Her photos show a fascinating period in the history of the United States; the architecture of a burgeoning industrial power, the Depression, followed by the country’s search for modernism and its lack of respect for the past. This exhibition show both the diversity and unity of her work.

Triborough Bridge © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.
Karlheinz Weinberger ‘The Rebels’ photo exhibition at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
from 11th February – 17th March 2012
Follow us, if you will, down to the underground to see the real rebels, a world of leather jackets, insanely-thick belt buckles and customised jeans. John Waters is a fan, and should you be…
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Piano concert with Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua
at La Belle Juliette, Thursday 9th February 2012 at 8pm
Around a original 1930s Pleyel pian, lovingly restored for La Belle Juliette, Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua plays and talks about a piece of music or a musical theme, encouraging you to take part in an hour’s conversation……
There’s a free glass of champagne at the end of the concert too. Click the image to send an e-mail and reserve your seat!
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24 hours museum – the photos
We mentioned this unusual event a few days back, and we knew that the building was worth seeing alone (as it’s generally closed to the public), but nothing had prepared us for the sights on offer, including genuinely spectacular architecture and the kitschest exhibition we’ve seen for quite a while…(photos: JasonW, except where noted)
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Martijn Berk at the Hôtel des Grands Hommes
Dutch photographer / filmmaker Martijn Berk contacted us to ask if he could make a little film at the Grands Hommes, and as we’re really nice and like to help out with creative projects, we said yes!
Here are a few photos from the shoot, the film itself, and more…
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Debussy, music and the arts exhibition at the Orangerie from 22nd February – 11th June 2012
Claude Debussy was very much inspired by the visual arts, et crossed paths with some very interesting, creative people. This new exhibition at the Orangerie tells more…
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Francesco Vezzoli and Prada open a museum in Paris for just 24 hours on 24th-25th January 2012
Art and Culture, Our favourite things
In the Palais d’Iéna, usually closed to the public, eccentric (genius?) Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli is collaborating with Prada and Remi Koolhaas to create a hyped-up event – an ephemeral museum that will only be open for 24 hours, in a city where many of the museums have been in place for hundreds of years…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson / Paul Strand exhibition – Mexico 1932-34 at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson
until 22nd April 2012
Two visions of a country, and two approaches to photography…

Paul Strand, landscape near Saltillo
Next harp and flute concert at La Belle Juliette –
A Mediterranean voyage Sunday 22nd January 2012
Art and Culture, Our favourite things
For this first rendezvous of the year, we offer you a concert-voyage, a landscape-concert… We’ll be crossing the seas with works by sailor-composers such as Jean Cras and Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as maritime works such as “En bateau” by Debussy.
The music will transport us to Mediterranean shores: Spain as celebrated by French composers, Italy and its famous operas, Greece with a mythological tale revisited by Glück, and – naturally – a French melody by Fauré to finish our voyage.
Seats: 18 euros, with a free glass of champagne after the concert.
Click the image to send an e-mail to book, or call +33 (0)1 42 22 97 40.
Damien Hirst exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery Paris until 18th February 2012.
Wint a print signed by Damien Hirst!
The complete spot paintings 1986–2011 is an exhibition being held simultaneously in every Gagosian Gallery in the world, including Paris. And if you visit them all in time, you’ll earn a print signed by the artist himself!

Damien Hirst Ethyl Laurate, 2003


