Paris museums off the beaten path: Musée du Quai Branly
Many Paris museums focus specifically on French history. Yet some of the city’s finest museums cast their gaze much further. Perhaps the finest of these is the Musée du Quai Branly...
Many Paris museums focus specifically on French history. Yet some of the city’s finest museums cast their gaze much further. Perhaps the finest of these is the Musée du Quai Branly...
Talented tenor Scott Emerson recently appeared in the French premiere of Steven Sondheim's 'Sunday in the Park with George' at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
Paris can feel like a thousand cities in one; like it is turning faster than the cars that zoom around and around the roundabout at Arc de Triomphe. Slow it down a little, and take Paris step by stunning step along its famed avenues and boulevards with part deux of the decadent stroll through Paris.
How well do you know your French philosophers? Voltaire was a French philosopher and writer who challenged the status quo of 18th century France.
Eight million people scale the Eiffel Tower each year for the view over Paris, and now, amongst the Notre Dame, the Louvre and Sacré Coeur, visitors will be treated to the sight of a great barramundi, floundering on the banks of the Seine, upon the roof of Musée de quai Branly.
Le romantisme noir s’inspire des histoires et des faits les plus horribles pour effrayer le monde entier. Qui ne se souvient pas par exemple des films d’horreur Frankenstein ou Dracula ?
The Art Institute of Chicago was the first art museum in the U.S. to present Pablo Picasso's works back in 1913. A century later, Chicago residents and visitors alike can enjoy a special exhibition of the artist's masterpieces on display at the museum until May 12, 2013.
Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher whose book ‘The Second Sex’ challenged the accepted role of women in society.
French master-painter Nicolas Poussin created scores of chef d'oeuvres in both Classic and Baroque styles. His 'Self Portrait', a work of a genre not typically associated with Poussin, reveals itself as a work of artistic genius. So what is it that makes Poussin's 'Self Portrait' so intriguing?
The Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, France, combines a scandalous past, Art Deco design and the crème de la crème of contemporary opera, classical concerts and ballet.