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Snow, rain, sunshine in Paris

18 Sunday Mar 2018

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March weather can be iffy. If you’re planning to visit make sure you’re equipped for the chill. Bring a second pair of shoes, an umbrella, water repellant gear. You can wake up to sun and be drenched by 3 p.m.

When all else fails, duck into a cafe, or better yet, a place like Le Fumoir. You don’t even have to smoke, just chill and have a martini or two.

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Energized, head for the Picasso Museum, a safe dry elegant place and take it all in,  5 Rue de Thorigny, closes at 6.  

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Here’s the view from the back window. Another nice place to chill. Hope you get to see:

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Until next time. Hope you’re designing your own Paris itinerary with the city’s best walking guide, No Worries Paris. Merci!

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In Paris this summer? Celebrate Rodin.

14 Sunday May 2017

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To mark the centenary of his death, the Musée Rodin and Réunion des musées nationaux Grand Palais are joining forces to celebrate Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative universe, his relationship with his audience and the way in which sculptors have appropriated his style.

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Featuring over 200 of Rodin’s works, it also includes sculptures and drawings by Bourdelle, Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Beuys, Baselitz and Gormley, shedding new light on this giant of sculpture.

Where: Grand Palais, Paris, France
Metro: Champs-Elysées Clémenceau (Lines 1, 13)

Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays from 10 am to 8 pm / Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 10 pm / Closed on Tuesdays

And if you’re looking for things to do after the show consult your No Worries Paris guide.

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Paris March events: a dynamic duo

17 Friday Feb 2017

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With the arrival of spring in Paris, a rush of rousing museum events burst forth and this year is no exception. I’ll start with a show that is off-the-beaten track and very worth your time.

March 2-July 23

Musée Maillol will be hosting an exhibition bearing the same title as Anne Sinclair’s autobiography, 21 rue La Boétie (published in 2012). In the book, the well-known journalist describes the life of her grandfather Paul Rosenberg, one of the most influential art dealers of the 20th century. The book inspired this exhibition of around 60 masterpieces by great artists such as Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Léger and Marie Laurencin.

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Musée Maillol
59-61 rue de Grenelle – 75007 Paris

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March 14-June 25

Second on my hotlist is the Musée d’Orsay’s nature-themed exhibition with a mystical focus: Au-delà des étoiles. Le paysage mystique de Monet à Kandinsky  (Beyond the Stars. The Mystical Landscape from Monet to Kandinsky). It gives visitors an introduction to depictions of nature in paintings by Gauguin, Denis, Hodler, Klimt, Munch and Van Gogh, and Canadian painters like Tom Thomson and Emily Carr.

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“Connecting with an order beyond physical appearances, going deeper than material realities to come closer to the mysteries of existence, experimenting with losing oneself in perfect unity with the cosmos: these quests are all characteristic of mysticism, the spiritual phenomenon that exists alongside all religions, in all continents. Why not, then, acknowledge its presence in Western Symbolist painting, which, at the close of the 19th century, precisely sought to elevate art to the medium of the ineffable, and the artist to the rank of initiate?”

Musée d’Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris

After taking in an exhibit or two you will want to take a refreshing walk. Consult your No Worries Paris for ideas in the neighborhood.  Happy spring!

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April showers Paris? duck in here

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

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AT THE POMPIDOU

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From 6 April to 1 August 2016, the Pompidou Centre presents an exhibition on one of the 20th century’s leading artists: Paul Klee. This retrospective, featuring 250 works by this major figure of modern art, looks at the career of the artist through the prism of irony. Originating in early German Romanticism, this satire and detachment enabled Paul Klee to be creative and paint whilet at the same time denouncing the policies and ideologies of his time.

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The exhibition is organized around seven themes: ‘Les débuts satiriques (Satirical Beginnings)’, ‘Klee et le cubisme (Klee and Cubism)’, ‘Théâtre mécanique (Mechanical Theatre)’, ‘Klee et les constructivismes (Klee and Constructivism)’, ‘Regards en arrière (Looking Back)’, ‘Klee et Picasso (Klee and Picasso)’ and ‘Années de crise (Crisis Years)’.

11am – 9pm. Closed on Tuesday

€14. Reduced rate: €11. Free for children aged under 18.

Metro: Rambuteau (line 11), Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11), Châtelet (lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14)
RER: Châtelet-les Halles (lines A, B and D)
Bus: 29, 38, 47, 75

AT QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM

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PERSONA: Now until November 13, 2016

At a time of major debates on transhumanism and artificial intelligence, the Quai Branly Museum presents an exhibition for understanding the mechanisms by which the cultures of the ancient to the most contemporary, “inject person” in objects.

The shaman who summons the spirits through a statuette taking the features of the gods, the child who has a passion for his security blanket, all those who converse with the pet, mutual friend of everyday life … everywhere, the boundaries between the human and all that surrounds it seem more and more permeable, raising broader questions of cohabitation between man, object, animal and machine.

Musée du quai Branly
37 Quai Branly
75007 Paris 7

Closed on Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday: 11:00 am-07:00 pm
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11:00 am-09:00 pm

FÊTE DES JARDINS, September 26-27

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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Put this on your Paris September agenda. If you’re a garden lover, photographer, traveler seeking beautiful French landscapes, this is the event for you. Gardners are available for questions and answers. Join one of the event tours. Click here for more info: http://www.jardindesplantes.net/fr/visitez/agenda/manifestation-evenement/fete-jardins  and

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Free ‘must-see’ exhibits: Paris Magnum photographers

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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FRANCE. Paris. ca. 1952. Spectators at Longchamp Racecourse.

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For 80 years the photographers of Magnum Photos – Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Riboud, Parr, Depardon – have presented their view of the metamorphoses of Paris and its inhabitants. As a sensitive and challenging testimony, Paris City Hall presents 150 images captured by 30 agency photographers through April 21, 2015. Pictured are revolutions and minor conflicts, moments of grace and tragedy, celebrities, great men and the man on the street.

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5, RUE LOBAU
75004 PARIS

Open from Sunday to Saturday from 10am to 6.30pm, metro: Hôtel de Ville

EXPO PHOTO DE MARC RIBOUD

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Photos of China from Riboud’s first trip in 1957 to his last to Shanghai in 2010. Closes March 12, so hurry.

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1 PLACE D’ITALIE   75013

metro: Place d’italie

Coming to you from the Jardin du Luxembourg

21 Sunday Sep 2014

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This weekend France celebrated the Journees Europeennes Du Patrimone. Open were many buildings not often offering access to tourists. I spent hours at Hotel de Ville and Palais du Luxembourg. Both were immense historic edifices clogged with patriots celebrating their heritage. The Elysees Palace was the most popular on the free ticket, requiring a six hour wait in line. I ended my day in a vacant chair with a full on view of flowers, grass and puffy clouds.

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Happy Bastille Day!

14 Sunday Jul 2013

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Vive la France.

Paris Haute Couture Show: a two-fer

29 Monday Apr 2013

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Visit Paris’s historic City Hall and take in the Paris Haute Couture exhibit in the Salle Saint-Jean which ends July 6. It’s free. About a hundred masterpieces from the Galliera Museum will be showcased: Doucet, Lanvin, Patou, Chanel, Rochas, Jacques Heim, Dior, Gaultier, Lacroix, Alaia, Balenciaga, Gres, Courreges, Schiaparelli, Balmain, Molyneux, Carven to name a few.

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A little history about the elaborate building:

Ever since 1357, the City of Paris’s administration has been located at the same location where the Hôtel de Ville stands today.

1533: King Francis I decided to endow the city with a city hall which would be worthy of Paris, then the largest city of Europe. Building work was not finished until 1628 during the reign of Louis XIII.

1835: on the initiative of Rambuteau, préfet of the Seine département, two wings were added to the main building and were linked to the facade by a gallery, to provide more space for the expanded city government.

1871: The Paris Commune chose the Hôtel de Ville as its headquarters, and as anti-Commune troops approached the building, Communards set fire to the Hotel destroying almost all extant public records from the French Revolutionary period. The blaze swallowed the building from the inside, leaving only an empty stone shell.

1873-1892: Reconstruction of the interior. Some 230 sculptors were commissioned to produce 338 individual figures of famous Parisians on each facade, along with lions and other sculptural features. Rodin produced the figure of the 18th-century mathematician Jean le Rond d’Alembert, finished in 1882

Open every day from 10am to 7pm (except Sundays and bank holidays)
Access:
Hôtel de Ville
Salle Saint-Jean, 5 rue de Lobau, Paris 4th arrondissement
Metro stop: Hôtel de Ville

Père Noël is coming to town

25 Tuesday Dec 2012

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“He knows if you’ve been sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!” According to tradition, on Christmas Eve children leave their shoes by the fireplace filled with carrots and treats for Père Noël’s donkey, Gui (French for “Mistletoe”) before they go to bed. Rudolph is left at home, probably backup for Santa’s ride over North America. Father Christmas takes the offerings and, if the child has been good, leaves presents in their place. Presents are traditionally small enough to fit in the shoes; candy, money or small toys.

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel to all our blog readers. Thank you for following along on our journey through the City of Light.