Author Archives: Sophie
Reality bites.
If you feel like visiting a wild exhibition with cutting edge contemporary art while visiting Paris, please go to Mexico. Or rather to the Musée d’art Modern de la ville de Paris. There, you’ll find a collective show with some … Continue reading
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Neon-Vision at La Maison Rouge
The electric coloured light that made the consumerist society so appealing, had and still has a big place in the art world– either to counterpoint the capitalist culture (arte povera’s Mario Mertz), to express its absurdity (Bruce Nauman), take it … Continue reading
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Doing Debussy.
Two mayor cultural events bring french music master Debussy to the front cover of Le Citizen’s blog. First, the Musée de l’Orangerie, in the garden of Tuilleries, shows an exhibition of paintings and other artworks that influenced and inspired the … Continue reading
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The color is the message.
Joseph Albers is one of the most important abstract painters who’s best known for his recurrent use of basic squares in the suprematist style, although he also has some amazing and intricate neo-constructivist pieces. But the amazing thing of his … Continue reading
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M Magazine writes up our boulanger
We were very proud and happy to see our boulanger, Benjamin Turquier, written up in M Magazine’s recent article as one of the best in Paris. The fresh and delicious bread that you eat every morning with us comes from … Continue reading
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Back to the future!
If you thought Paris was only about the past glory, the historical heritage and old culture, you better get to the Gaité Lyrique and have a close look at what will happen in the future, right now. In this 19th … Continue reading
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Brunch “WithLove-AllergenFree” Feb 12th
Please join us for a delicious allergen-free brunch at the hotel with our friends from WITHLOVE! Please RSVP if interested, see you there!
Gotye over and over at Le Citizen today!!
Né à Bruges en 1980, Walter De Backer s’installe deux ans plus tard avec sa famille à Melbourne (Australie). Sa mère le surnomme Gautier (équivalent francophone de son prénom Walter),Wally décide donc de prendre comme nom de scène “Gotye” (Gautier … Continue reading
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Indian Artist, Tagore, at the Petit Palais
Rabindranath Tagore is best known as a novelist, playwright, composer and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. But he was also the end of his life, an amazing painter. A year after the 150th anniversary of his birth, … Continue reading
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Take a walk on the dark side!
“La ville de lumière” has also a dark side… Well, not dark like in Darth Vader but a hidden side not even the parisians are familiar with. What we may call the backstage of Paris (“coulisses” in french). A … Continue reading
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