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Hauer & Wirth have revealed plans for a new gallery in Paris, to open in 2023. Sited at 26 bis rue François 1er in the city’s bustling 8th arrondissement, home to the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe (which was recently wrapped by Christo), the branch will occupy the entirety of a nineteenth-century hôtel particulier, […]
Paris Hilton made a glamorous DJ on Thursday, as she performed a set at the Think of Us wrap party at Penn Social in Washington, D.C. The 41-year-old socialite looked sensational as ever in a low-cut black dress with frilly transparent sleeves and a matching choker. The heiress accessorized her look with black shades and, […]
Afrique sur Seine (1955) was a film ahead of its time. Formally, it was a bridge between Italian Neorealism of the 1940s—a style of filmmaking that evoked the hardships of war, from impoverishment and displacement to death and destruction, through the scarcest of means—and the French nouvelle vague (New Wave) that emerged in the late […]
THE TREND ISN’T limited to the French capital, either. Last summer, in response to an urge to return to Europe after feeling overwhelmed by both the Trump presidency and Brexit, Lucy Chadwick, the British-born former senior director of Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, decided, with a few days’ notice, to move her family not […]
If culture is intended to capture the sociopolitical present, then we would be better served examining our twinges of discomfort with what we are not seeing on the screen as an indication of how the social norms imbued into French identity are defined by assimilation into whiteness as the standard, despite all insistence to the contrary. […]
Beauford Delaney’s last known self-portrait. The then-70-year-old Delaney portrays himself as wide-eyed, lithe and youthful, and clad in African attire not unlike that of a Maasai warrior. It is the only known self-portrait canvas in which Delaney presents himself full-figure. Knoxville Museum of Art hide caption toggle caption Knoxville Museum of Art Beauford Delaney’s last […]
In the month leading up to the Fall-Winter shows in Paris, it was widely believed that the event would mark a significant return to business as usual — a celebration for the fashion world after two years of pandemic-related disruptions. Coronavirus cases were relatively low, international travel to and from France had opened up and […]
More than a month after a firestorm broke out between the United States and France over the Biden administration’s colossally ill-considered torpedoing of a major French-Australian submarine deal, the vice president landed in Paris to try to patch things up. And so far, it’s working.Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron seemed delighted to see each […]
Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev are poised for a blockbuster meeting Sunday at the Rolex Paris Masters, where the World’s No. 1 and No. 2 players clash in the final for just the second time in tournament history. “Let’s hope for the sake of the fans and everyone involved we can have a thrilling match,” […]
The US has urged Britain to follow its example and try to repair its relations with Paris in the wake of the row over France’s loss of its submarine contract with Australia. Australia pulled out of the $66bn (£48bn) contract for 12 diesel electric-powered submarines, signed in 2016, to opt instead for nuclear-powered submarines to […]