PRESIDENT HOLLANDE REINFORCES FRENCH CONNECTION TO AFRICA WHILE, HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ANOTHER CONNECTION TO AFRICA TAKES PLACE
The Modern Trobador is back at the keyboard after a brief hiatus to work on a photography exhibition in [...]
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LOURMARIN’S JACQUELINE BRICARD TO HOST “LE BINÔME,” AN ENCHANTING EXHIBIT OF NAΪF ART THAT COMBINES PAINTING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY
If you have not yet received your invitation to the wedding of the year—Brad and Angelina, of course, who [...]
CARRIÉRES DE LUMIÉRES: A COOL PLACE TO VISIT
The Carrières du Val d’Enfer–the quarries in the Valley of Hell–have provided limestone [...]
THE STEINS COLLECT: AN EXHIBITION OF MATISSE, PICASSO, AND CEZANNE
We had dinner with friends in Manhattan a few weeks ago. The discussion naturally gravitated to what we were doing for the weekend. Somewhere between the antipasti platter and my ragu alla Bolognese with fresh tagliatelle, I mentioned that we were going to see the New American Wing at the Metropolitan. Suddenly, our friend Mary Bartos, a native New Yorker and art aficionado when not running her Upper East Side boutique Pan American Phoenix, sprang out of her chair, saying something about Gertrude Stein. She was so excited that I couldn’t understand.. [...]
“VAN GOGH UP CLOSE” AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: AN EXAMINATION OF LANDSCAPES FROM PROVENCE AND AUVERS AND A FEW STILL LIFES FROM PARIS, TOO
Befittingly, perhaps, we arrived in Philadelphia to find frigid temperatures and falling snow, just as van [...]
VAN GOGH’S LAST YEAR IN PROVENCE: REFUGE IN AN ASYLUM, STARRY NIGHTS, FIELDS OF WHEAT, AND IRISES
Vincent van Gogh is on my mind again these days. Those Don McLean lyrics—“Starry, starry night, Paint [...]
MEET ME AT LES DEUX GARÇONS: A SEQUEL TO “MIDNIGHT IN PARIS”?
Should Woody Allen and Owen Wilson decide to follow Picasso to the South of France, surely Les Deux Garçons [...]
JACQUELINE BRICARD WELCOMES NAÏF ARTISTS TO LOURMARIN
Naïf art is that which takes inspiration from the soul. The artists who produce this style of work are [...]
MONTE DOLACK: RETRACING FAMOUS ARTISTS’ FOOTSTEPS IN PROVENCE
If world-famous artists like Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh fell in love with Provence, Montana wildlife [...]
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