CITY OF PARIS

Valentine’s Day in Paris

Whether you want to say it with flowers, write it in lights, shout it from a hot-air balloon or whisper it in a secret garden, take a few days break to Paris in February for Valentine’s Day, which offers a thousand ways to say je t’aime.

To take part to Valentine's Day, find your apartment for rent in Paris. 11/02/2011

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THE CITY OF LIGHTS... AND OF SOUND
Every 21st of June since 1982 Paris has been holding the Music Festival, a popular cultural event completely free of charge, that mixes all music genres and is addressed to a wide-range public, with the aim of popularizing music and helping both young and old to familiarize with this art form. This year's theme will be "50 years of French songs", but on all music genres will be played in the streets, from rock to blues... and not only in French! A chance to live the summer enjoying Paris with an en plein air soundtrack! 03/06/2009

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Top 10 hidden art gems in Paris

Tiddy Rowan, author of Art in the City Paris, reveals her favourite small but perfectly formed galleries in the French capital:

1. La Maison Rouge 

Located in a former industrial building, the gallery was conceived by its founder Antoine de Galbert in 2003. The exhibitions are often organised by independent guest curators, providing challenging or controversial shows but nonetheless always notable in their contribution to the current contemporary art scene in Paris. Next door is a branch of Bookstorming - a great haunt for art book lovers.

2. Marian Goodman Gallery

The heavy portal on the rue du Temple is always closed making this treasure easy to miss. Pressing the entry bell beneath the simple bronze name-plaque of Marion Goodman Galerie will reveal one of the most important and prestigious galleries in Paris. The ground floor gallery space runs alongside the right wing of the building naturally lit by several floor to ceiling windows and in one of the basement level galleries is a crypt-like vaulted space where you can view videos of, or about, the artists on show.

05/03/2008

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When in Paris, Buy Chocolate

The French take chocolate seriously, and Paris is home to several great chocolatiers. Although there are dozens to choose from, the five purveyors we list here are unusually distinguished for excellence and originality.

Pierre Hermé
In his tireless quest for the new, the pastries can sometimes flounder, but the chocolate never wavers. Assortments of dark and milk-chocolate bonbons are worth the splurge.

La Maison du Chocolat
This is the gold standard of chocolate. Robert Linx's silky ganaches are unparalleled in subtlety and flavor. The pastries -- notably the macarons -- are icing on the cake.

 13/09/2007

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Paris Update: Mona Lisa on the move

mona lisaApril 13, 2005: Few women have 20,000 admirers visit them every day, yet “Mona Lisa” seems positively blasé about it. Ensconced behind 4-centimeter-thick glass, La Joconde, as Leonardo’s iconic painting is known in France, has a high-tech new home in the Louvre’s refurbished Salle des Etats, now renamed the Salle de la Joconde. Redone in tones of beige and lit from above, the room also houses over 50 Venetian Renaissance paintings, including “The Marriage at Cana” by Veronese.

 06/04/2007

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