Thierry Michel
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Within walking distance of the Louvre. I am not Belgian and I do not make films, but I have seen the documentaries of my namesake, and I recommend them.
Pour ceux qui aiment ce genre de choses, la librairie Vignes rue Saint Jacques vend en ce moment des Pléiades d'occasion.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Pour ceux qui aiment ce genre de choses, la librairie Vignes rue Saint Jacques vend en ce moment des Pléiades d'occasion.
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Not finished yet, but it's getting there. We shall soon be able to compare the Louvre's old masters with whatever modern exhibit Cartier opens with.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not finished yet, but it's getting there. We shall soon be able to compare the Louvre's old masters with whatever modern exhibit Cartier opens with.
Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou. Sorry to say, but I like his photographs when they are in another photographer's style (a concept well articulated in Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment).
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou. Sorry to say, but I like his photographs when they are in another photographer's style (a concept well articulated in Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment).
Memorial garden for the 2015 terrorism victims. The names on the slab are the deceased at the Bataclan.
August 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Memorial garden for the 2015 terrorism victims. The names on the slab are the deceased at the Bataclan.
Just saw Somniloquies yesterday and it was ...something. Hard to describe without spoiling it, but the link below tells you what it is about.
Dion McGregor - Wikipedia
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June 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Just saw Somniloquies yesterday and it was ...something. Hard to describe without spoiling it, but the link below tells you what it is about.
I have just seen this, and I was very impressed. Watching: fairly graphical at times. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Huma...
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (film) - Wikipedia
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June 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I have just seen this, and I was very impressed. Watching: fairly graphical at times. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Huma...
Chantilly. Highly recommended.
June 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Chantilly. Highly recommended.
Le Louvre has many Chardins, including the Strawberry Basket that they bought last year or so, for 24 million.
Good luck trying to see them, though, as their room seems to be the first to be closed whenever they lack personnel, i.e. most of the time.
Good luck trying to see them, though, as their room seems to be the first to be closed whenever they lack personnel, i.e. most of the time.
March 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Le Louvre has many Chardins, including the Strawberry Basket that they bought last year or so, for 24 million.
Good luck trying to see them, though, as their room seems to be the first to be closed whenever they lack personnel, i.e. most of the time.
Good luck trying to see them, though, as their room seems to be the first to be closed whenever they lack personnel, i.e. most of the time.
Baselitz, Bourse du commerce (Paris)
March 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Baselitz, Bourse du commerce (Paris)
Galerie de paléontologie, museum d'histoire naturelle
March 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Galerie de paléontologie, museum d'histoire naturelle
Ribera at Paris' Petit Palais
February 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Ribera at Paris' Petit Palais
I always like the light in this Paris square.
January 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I always like the light in this Paris square.
Great exhibit on the modernization of Tokyo at Paris House of Japanese Culture (near Eiffel tower)
January 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Great exhibit on the modernization of Tokyo at Paris House of Japanese Culture (near Eiffel tower)
Jean Rolin, "Tous passaient sans effroi", my first French read of the year. A travel book of sorts of the author's crossing of the Pyrenees, following the path of the people escaping occupied France. Writing lightly about a terrible past, a great sense of place, and of how history gets written.
January 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Jean Rolin, "Tous passaient sans effroi", my first French read of the year. A travel book of sorts of the author's crossing of the Pyrenees, following the path of the people escaping occupied France. Writing lightly about a terrible past, a great sense of place, and of how history gets written.
Very neat Tina Barney exhibit at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.
Painterly photography, masterfully composed.
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
Painterly photography, masterfully composed.
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
Exposition Tina Barney - Jeu de Paume
Tina Barney entreprend à la fin des années 1970 de photographier ses proches et amis, issus, comme elle, des classes aisées de la côte est des États-Unis.
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December 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Very neat Tina Barney exhibit at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.
Painterly photography, masterfully composed.
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
Painterly photography, masterfully composed.
jeudepaume.org/evenement/ex...
The Well-Educated fool. Currently at the Louvre museum, on loan from Basel, I think.
December 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
The Well-Educated fool. Currently at the Louvre museum, on loan from Basel, I think.
Arte Povera exhibit at the Bourse du Commerce.
December 15, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Arte Povera exhibit at the Bourse du Commerce.
Death of Jacques Roubaud, whose work I enjoyed a lot. "Je ne déteste pas m'ennuyer" is a sentence of his I have adopted for my own use
December 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Death of Jacques Roubaud, whose work I enjoyed a lot. "Je ne déteste pas m'ennuyer" is a sentence of his I have adopted for my own use
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
November 16, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Renaissance chess set from the Fool exhibit at the Louvre museum. On loan from Amsterdam.
October 24, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Renaissance chess set from the Fool exhibit at the Louvre museum. On loan from Amsterdam.
Lynn Chadwick sculptures currently at Hotel de Sully (Paris, le Marais).
October 24, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Lynn Chadwick sculptures currently at Hotel de Sully (Paris, le Marais).
Marie Cécile Thijs has a small exhibit in Le Marais.
October 24, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Marie Cécile Thijs has a small exhibit in Le Marais.