Month: November 2020

Our favorite galleries in the Marais

The Marais and its surroundings are a gold mine for art enthusiasts and lovers. Paris Select presents the art galleries not to be missed to embellish your Parisian walks… Galerie Maria Lund Located in the heart of the Marais, the Galerie Maria Lund highlights and promotes profound works in a philosophical sense raising real existential questions. The resulting answers are intended to be more suggestive than imposing. Alongside the temporary exhibitions which follow one another throughout the year – for which the gallery sometimes collaborates with institutions – the gallery can receive artists for concerts and reading conferences. Maria Lund Gallery, 48 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris Schwab Beaubourg Gallery Created in 2011 by Thierry Schwab and his son Edouard, the Schwab Beaubourg gallery is housed in a beautiful space of 170 m2 near the Pompidou Center. It defends contemporary figurative painting and sculpture, presenting leading artists such as the sculptor Marc Petit, continuously exhibited as well as the painters Safet Zec, Antoni Taulé, ...

Exceptional art galleries in the 8th arrondissement

The Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Avenue Matignon, rue de Penthièvre and rue de Miromesnil remain the stronghold of great antique dealers and prestigious art galleries. In a spirit of tradition and renewal, art dealers with global influence have sometimes settled there for several generations and rub shoulders with famous foreign galleries recently installed. In this article, we reveal the most beautiful of the 8th arrondissement. Galeries Bartoux Among the many art galleries in Paris, this one is located in the heart of a mythical avenue, the Matignon. Galeries Bartoux specializes in contemporary art. Fostering new artistic trends, it makes us discover works from surrealism and new realism as well as the biggest names in Pop Art and Street Art: Dali, Arman, Picasso, Andy Warhol… A selection of works by great masters and contemporary artists to admire in their new Parisian space of 500m2, inaugurated last summer. Galeries Bartoux, 5 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris. 01 42 66 36 63 Tajan For 30 years, Tajan has been the unmissable event for collectors. ...

10 essential books to discover

The most beautiful trips are hidden in the books. Jean d'Ormesson Reading offers the possibility from his sofa to live several lives… We are not going to deprive ourselves of it! Here are the 10 recommendations from Marie-Laure Vallée, from the Littérature et Compagnie blog. - “A castle for Hollywood” by Olivier Minne, published by Séguier Olivier Minne invites us to push open the door of the Castle on Sunset Boulevard, a baroque hotel in the heart of Los Angeles. Its fresco inhabited by whimsical and glamorous characters, brings us to the heart of the myth embodied by Hollywood. - "The scandalous, the novel by Louise Labé" by Michel Peyramaure, published by Calmann-Lévy A fictionalized biography of the greatest poet of the Renaissance who through her verses dared to express her desires as a libertine woman. Courageous ! - “Haute-couture” by Florence Delay, published by Gallimard Associating a dress with a life, you had to think about it. This is the challenge that Florence Delay took on by investigating the works of the painter Zurbaran and his models. Exciting ! - “My literary Paris” by François Busnel,…