At Musée de l’Orangerie, when you’ve had enough of Monet’s sprawling water lilies, make sure you pop downstairs and see Maurice Utrillo’s work. Utrillo was a Montmartre-born painter who specialized in cityscapes. In 1904 at the age of 21, Utrillo began drawing and painting what he saw in Paris’ streets. By 1910, his work […]
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Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Location, location, location. At least a million deceased Parisians (and Jim Morrison) enjoy hilltop city views, cobbled lanes and cast iron signposts. Like most gentrified neighborhoods, this city of the dead had problems attracting residents due to its undesirable (remote) geography. Paris city officials embarked on a marketing strategy and relocated prominent corpses from other […]
Petit Palais
This palatial palace, across from the Grand Palace, houses the Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris. The collection is a bit of a hodgepodge and includes decorative arts, paintings and sculptures spanning ancient Greek and Roman times to the twentieth century. Pieces by Monet, Courbet, Delacroix, Rodin, Pisssarro and other greats […]
Edward Steichen at MNHA
Photographer Edward Steichen is one of Luxembourg’s most famous artists. He took his first photograph in 1895 and his career took off when he met Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1900. The two friends formed the Photosecession Group and the photography journal Camera Work. Steichen’s career spanned over 30 years and included commercial […]
Casual Passerby I Met
So much more interesting than pointless celebrity glorification: Braco Dimitrijević, a pioneer of conceptual art, displays his Casual Passerby series which features portraits of strangers he has encountered all over the world. The above piece is entitled “Casual Passerby I Met at 4:43 PM, Luxembourg 2010” and is hanging on the National Library on rue […]
Casino Luxembourg
C’est forum d’art contemporain – nary a blackjack table in sight. This is one of the most appealing museums in Luxembourg. In addition to two floors of well-curated exhibites, there is also an extensive art library in which to lose yourself. Second Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je explores identity, both genuine and fabricated, through […]
Anthony Caro on the Roof
View British sculptor Anthony Caro’s installation on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Caro is considered the most influential sculptor of his generation. The large steel pieces convey the artist’s principal aspects such as communication between sculpture and architecture and creation of abstract analogies for the human […]
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993
The Asia Society Museum’s current photo exhibit presents New York City through famed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s eyes. The 200+ black and white images capture the Lower East Side, Times Square, Thompson Square Park, subway platforms, backstage at the Metropolitan Opera and various artists and intellectuals at work and play. This is […]
South End Burial Ground
Tombstones in this East Hampton cemetery rightfully occupy prime real estate smack in the middle of town. The earliest gravestones are from the 17th century and mostly identify the Hampton’s founding families like the Gardiners. The plot used to be the churchyard for East Hampton’s first meeting house. I thought it appropriate to shoot […]
Parrish Art Museum
The Hamptons have always been a haven for artists. Visit the Parrish Art Museum to see works by locals such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Dan Flavin, and Roy Lichtenstein. See which artist lived where: http://artists.parrishart.org/ 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, NY
