Every woman has that evil bra (normally the best looking one) that digs-in and is always a relief to get off…but BOY did women have it bad before us. La mécanique des dessous : une histoire indiscrète de la silhouette is an exhibition that akes us through the history of female (and some male) undergarments, documenting … Continue reading
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You haven’t seen weird until you’ve seen Cocou Bazar by Jean Debuffet
What is Cocou Bazar? A performance of weirdly shaped and somewhat creepy 3-D fantasy objects/people which move around to clangy annoying music. Sound weird? It’s super weird. (Check out this YouTube video) It was originally shown in 1973 but Musée des Arts Decoratifs is putting on an exhibition to re-live its weirdness. But this is … Continue reading
York Illuminations 2013
*Not a Parisian event!* (but great nonetheless) …Last week I went to visit some friends and family in Yorkshire, and was fortunate enough to catch my 3rd York Illuminations Festival whilst I was there. It is a great event which sees artists with cutting-edge technology creating colourful pieces which light up the city – drawing … Continue reading
Rainbows Galore in ART BRUT : Absolument Excentrique
I had no idea I was going to see an exhibition last weekend, but this brightly coloured poster outside Hotel de Ville sucked me in. I just couldn’t resist. Having no clue what it entailed, I assumed it focused on expressionists or perhaps some cool new rainbow art movement. I was happy to be … Continue reading
Exhibition Review: Villes du Monde (Galerie des bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris)
1870. The Franco-Prussian war. 1939. The start of World War Two. Often when we think of these years around the turn of the 20th century, we think of political conflict. I certainly expected to see an exhibition of devastated cities and communities, dead soldiers and countries at war. Yet what we get is a much more unusual … Continue reading
A (belated) review of Nuit Blanche à Paris
Last week-end saw the return of the ‘Nuit Blanche’ festival in Paris – marketed as ‘a night-long celebration of arts and culture’ but probably best described as a mish-mash trek of vaguely related mish-mash art things around the city. Slightly confused? Yes, so was I. Although the programme of events was online, no maps or … Continue reading
16éme arrondissement attempts to go British for a weekend.
Last weekend the town hall in the 16éme arrondissement in Paris (really posh one, right near the Arc de Triomphe) put on a British show! Okay, I have only been in Paris for 9 days, but I was already missing a bit of home, and was curious to see how the French would approach … Continue reading
4éme Biennale des Images Du Monde, Paris : Musée Quai Branly.
I was having a little stroll around Paris when I came across this AMAZING photography exhibition outside Musée Quai Branly (near the Eiffel Tower.) It is the 4th ‘Photoquai’ (taking place every odd year) which seeks to… (a) ‘change attitudes concerning the artistic medium of photography in museums i.e. seeing it not just as … Continue reading
Hackney Wick(ed) Arts Festival
See my full post on my website http://actuallyalice.weebly.com/blog.html — There was a bit of everything at Hackney Wick’s Art Festival this month – from stained glass gorillas, pinball machines, a skate park, garden gnomes and a pineapple-shaped drinking cup. But that’s contemporary art for you…. unexpected ! The art exhibited was all over the area in … Continue reading
Oxfordshire Art Weeks Festival : Churchill
Oxfordshire Art Weeks is a festival spanning the whole county over a three week period. The idea behind the free event is that local art is presented in a relaxed environment – quite often in peoples homes, gardens and in the streets. All sorts of art is on show – painting, drawings, ceramics, textiles, glass … Continue reading
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