Hello from you-know-where. I’m keeping it quick this week because my book deadline is dangerously approaching quickly. Instead of recounting my current panic attack, here are a few expos/to-dos that I am longing to see once I can ponder being bored again.
Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes. This annual blowout event opens the doors of the artist students in the "Brooklyn of Paris" Montreuil. If you are you a voyeur like me, it’s a way to sneak into the homes and studios of hundreds of artists in one festive weekend. I’ll be opening my own studio as well, sharing work new and old and some very exciting new merch. Come hang out! Oct 14-15, 11h-19h Usine Chapal, 2 Rue Marcelin Berthelot 93100 Montreuil, Door D 2nd floor
For the color fanatic, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation donated a collection of paintings and artifacts to the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. His engrossing color studies matched with the grand scale of the museum will be nothing less than spiritual.
Iris van Herpen Sculpting the Senses, part armor, part insect, part poetry. I’ve never had the pleasure to see a van Herpen in the flesh. This retrospective starts November 29th at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, a favorite museum of mine.
To-do, suite
Chagall At Work at The Centre Pompidou, Drawings, Ceramics and Sculptures 1945-1970. Catch anything at the Pompidou before it closes for its years-long renovation.
Peter Doig Reflets du siècle at the Musee D'orsay, my favorite contemporary landscape painter.
Kehinde Wiley shows an exclusive series of portraits of African heads of state at the Quai Branly which has a fabulous garden for a leisure book-read.
Wish me luck! -jkw