BOOO!
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 10/31/2007 06:23:00 PM.
Happy Halloween dear blog reader!
My costume this year:
you call it "Cruella de Vil", I call it "Coco Chanel on crack"!
I was supposed to go as dead baby eater, but none of my neighbors would want to lend me their infant... screw them!
My costume this year:you call it "Cruella de Vil", I call it "Coco Chanel on crack"!
I was supposed to go as dead baby eater, but none of my neighbors would want to lend me their infant... screw them!
Labels: Nonsensical rambling, things that can happen if you stare directly into the sun
Autumn at the Louvre
2 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 10/30/2007 07:07:00 PM.
The leaves are falling from the trees, hiding the dog shit underneath them, making every trip through the streets of Paris a real adventure. Who would suspect even more brown under those brown things?
Tuesdays the Louvre is closed
Nothing but blue skies on a cold day
Workers on the roof at the Cour Carrée
The Pavillon de l*Horloge
The Louvremobile! Louvreman must be around...
The emergency exit lukes of the museum were open today
And the pyramid is getting a cleaning session.
The only way to clean those glass tiles
Pétanque players at the Tuileries
endless rue de Rivoli
A far away Grand Palais
The children are having fun with their boats
It*s getting colder, but that doesn*t keep the tourists away, flocking into the city on this holiday week.
Tuesdays the Louvre is closed
Nothing but blue skies on a cold day
Workers on the roof at the Cour Carrée
The Pavillon de l*Horloge
The Louvremobile! Louvreman must be around...
The emergency exit lukes of the museum were open today
And the pyramid is getting a cleaning session.
The only way to clean those glass tiles
Pétanque players at the Tuileries
endless rue de Rivoli
A far away Grand Palais
The children are having fun with their boats
Labels: gardens, Louvre, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
How Times has changed
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 10/29/2007 06:24:00 PM.
The NYT built its headquarters on 42nd Street in 1904, giving its name to Times Square.It was here that the New Year's Eve tradition of lowering a lighted ball from the Times building was started by the paper.
After only nine years in Times Square, the paper relocated to 229 West 43rd Street. It remained there until the spring of 2007, and is now three blocks south, at 620 Eighth Avenue.
The original Times Square building, now known as One Times Square, was sold in 1961.
Because of the extensive cost of renovating the building with central air conditioning, the building currently has no tenants and is only used to hold dozens of colorful advertisements. Additionally, the operators of One Times Square have noted that the building makes more revenue as a collection of advertisements than it would full of tenants.
The new Times headquarters are situated in the New York Times Building skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano, which opened in June 2007 at 620 Eighth Avenue, between West 40th and 41st Streets. The building is currently tied with the Chrysler as second tallest building in NY and 6th tallest in the US.Labels: Architecture shot, New York, Newspaperism
A PARIS 2e guide to the must-see art exhibitions
"STEICHEN: Lives in Photography"
Jeu de Paume
10 09 2007 until 12 30 2007
PARIS 2e RATING: ****
"Brooklyn Bridge, 1903""Luxembourg-born Edward Steichen (1879-1973) produced portraits, landscapes, still lifes and nudes, and demonstrated his talent photographing fashion, dance, theatre, flowers and commercial images, as well as in war and aerial photography.
With Alfred Stieglitz he helped set up the Photo-Secession group and the journal Camera Work. In 1923, Condé Nast were sufficiently impressed by his pictorialist photos to make him art director of Vogue and Vanity Fair. Steichen became one of the leading figures of modernism. He also served as photography curator at New York's MoMA, where he organised the famous exhibition The Family of Man. This show began touring internationally in 1955 and attracted over 11 million visitors worldwide. It was the crowning event of Steichen's career." (JdP)
A smaller version of “Lives in Photography” will travel to Switzerland, Italy and Spain through September 2008.
"BIEDERMEIER: The Invention of Simplicity"
LOUVRE
01 10 2007 until 14 01 2008
PARIS 2e RATING: ****
"Daybed, Vienna"
An excellent, yet somewhat smaller version of the exhibition shown in some other museums before.01 10 2007 until 14 01 2008
PARIS 2e RATING: ****
"Daybed, Vienna"An aesthetic trend descended from neoclassicism, the Biedermeier style developed in central Europe between 1815 and 1848, the period of peace following the Napoleonic Wars. The Biedermeier style was highly original, at once simple and full of imagination.
A fascinating lesson in design and pure simplicity and aesthetics!
Read this NYT article on the exhibition.
"PURE DECORS? Masterpieces of Islamic decorative art"
11 10 2007 until 13 01 2008
PARIS 2e RATING: ***
PARIS 2e RATING: ***
"Bottle, Iran 17th century"A splendid showcase of 300 masterworks from the museums 3000 piece strong Islamic Arts collection are presented in this exhibition. The collection will join the LOUVRE in 2010, for the opening of the new Islamic courtyard, thus creating one of the world*s most complete and impressive collections on the subject.
The works show the influence of the Arts Décoratifs collection in the applied arts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasise the role the institution has played in this field.
"DESIGN contre DESIGN - 2 centuries of creation"
26 09 2007 until 07 01 2008
PARIS 2e RATING: ****
"Phantasy Landscape, 1970, Verner Panton"Design by design brings together objects and household furniture from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Rather than follow a chronological arrangement, which is too complex these days, it juxtaposes and draws parallels, triggers surprising short circuits and sparks dialogue between things.
An excellent view on the revolution of design and its intrusion into everyday life!
Labels: Art, exhibitions, MUSEUMS, photography
LOUBOUTIN+LYNCH, the SHOE FETISHISTS, and our own version of a STREET ART SCENE
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 10/28/2007 02:03:00 PM.
OMG! You might wonder why the hell I open today*s post with a picture of a naked lady showing her "sexy" legs...Well last night was "ART NIGHT", a regular feature with friends, where we explore the depths of Paris*s swank art scene. And if we can*t find any, we*ll just create some ourselves.
Last evening started with a visit to the Galerie du Passage, where famed Paris shoe designer Christian Louboutin presented limited edition shoes with a twist of shoe fetishism, and a taste for the extreme. He asked David Lynch (who already commissioned Louboutin to make shoes for an exhibition he was hosting at Fondation Cartier back in March this year) to picture his creations in a non-conventional way, using model dancers out straight out of the Crazy Horse.
Now the result may look like heaven for straight people, but I really loved the shoes...
The high heels of horror
ouch!
This pair is fused by the heel. A nice idea for people who walk a lot..
spiky...
a foot cage?
The ambiance of the galerie is a very special one, since the small rooms are stocked with design classics from all periods. Another excellent reason why I love this place!
Mmmh, my favorite plush armchair
Hanging around town, Benjamin went for some beer
Or is that an energy drink?
The gallery openings where scarce. Cheap if not to say the least, but that may be due to the fact that we went for dinner before the vernissages and might have lost the opportunity to get the traditional glimpse at Andrée Putman and all the other regulars.We went from one closed gallery to the next, but we had fun nevertheless.
It was "throw-out-your-old-furniture-the-trash-truck-is-coming" night, so we decided to take the opportunity and stage an impromptu photo shoot in a narrow street somewhere."Bartender, a drink please!"
"Oh this existentialism is killing me"
"Rigolo"
Anyone in the need for a cooking platform?
Where*s my dry martini?
Labels: Art, Art Galleries, ART NIGHT, design, exhibitions, FASHION, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), photography
FIAC ME! I*m FAMOUS!
4 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 10/25/2007 01:44:00 PM.
Ready for a short "best of" of the FIAC articultural extravaganzatastic?
Great, then let*s go:
First stop: the Louvre site inside the Cour Carrée
This space is usually filled with some of the best established and emerging contemporary art galleries
First stop: the Louvre site inside the Cour Carrée
This space is usually filled with some of the best established and emerging contemporary art galleries
This is a great way to store your umbrellas on a rainy day...
It* so hard to hang yourself nowadays! Confused?
The US flag is always a show favorite
2 sides of the wall
the wall
Car sex
Sometimes I wonder about the pricing of these things
How to make sure your bike doesn*t get stolen
First aid?
North Korea, the triumphant arch
Commies? Here?
Paris disappeared
Use? Sculpture!
Dolby Surround
Model model
As I said... political art...
every gallery has its own way to furnish the "office" space, usually with designer furniture stuff or antiques of design history
Discussion
A history of Sarkozy
Lunchtime
Lynchtime?
mmmh leather boy...
How to dispose of your ancestors and make a fashion statement at the same time
Where*s the art?
Photo, champagne and my feet
Get him guys!
Putinesque art catalogues
Picasso Sex
eew
what keeps our medias alive
Spikey burkalicious lady and me
Woohoo, beer!
Conspiracy board
Buy it fast, before the fish starve
Is your floor up for sale?
Love this one
This is what the Beatles from outa space look like
It*s a sale!
Hollywood Glamorama-Erotorama
There*s a mirror underneath those photo post-its
Paris
A christmas ornament
An artist with a vision
black is chic
An electric chair made with hundreds of VCR tapes
The Al-jazeira sign made with cables
Interconnected friendship?
A portrait-sculpture made with stamps
young buyer
Super-art-bot
Hi mom!
Jeez, where did ya get those tatoos?
A map of Paris made with tourist hotel business cards
And we have a winner!!
Colorful
Great chairs
McFountain?
This is the main cable lines powering the whole FIAC space...way too easy to cut up?
Waiting for the shuttle to take us to the Grand Palais FIAC site
Some more stuff to sell
Wee! I*m on a doubledecker bus!
On the way 1
On the way 2
Arrival at the Grand Palais
So much to see
OMG I would buy this Ron Arad library immediately!!!
Not art
Detail of a red ball sculpture
Ladies in the waiting
From a ball to a head and back again
An original early Warhol!!! Orgasmic!
This gorilla sculpture is entirely done with coathangers
Impressive
I*m behind the rope? Or in front of it?
Get me another bottle of champagne!
Warhol
The image on the right part of the screen is actually me
chalk can be used for paintings?
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
More FUCK FUCK FUCK
The refrigerators of the disco era! Shake it baby!
Wim Delvoye action figures (the Cloaca guy)
Finally someone wearing CHANEL...
Lovely
You look smashing!
Love this one!
Aw, cute!
Children can be cruel sometimes
Your nazi grand-grand parents?
I always carry explosives around on the metro
Shock and Chic(k)
It*s the Piss of Death!!
Are you ducking?
Pop!
He bought a lot today
waiting legs
walking legs
way back home
me back home with my Wim Delvoye balloon
Thanks for watching, comments appreciated!
Labels: Art, Art Galleries, design, exhibitions, FIAC
