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Pauline Viardot: A Forgotten Woman of Musical Genius
Maurice Sand (1823-1889). “Portrait de Pauline Viardot”. Huile sur bois. Paris, musée de la Vie romantique. Photo: Flickr/ bargainista89 Pauline Viardot was part of the Spanish Garcia family, four...
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Helena Rubinstein Exhibit at Musée d’Art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris
In the factory Saint-Cloud, 1924. Credit: Archives Helena Rubinstein-L’Oreal-DR “There are no ugly women, just lazy ones.” –Helena Rubinstein For the first time in France, the Musée d’Art et d’histoire...
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Remembering a Titan of Film: Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda speaking at a retrospective series at the Harvard Film Archive 2009. Photo: Puchku/ CC BY-SA 3.0 license In Paris last week, the city lost one of its greatest residents. Agnès Varda passed...
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Dora Maar Heats Up New York and Paris in Picasso’s Women at Gagosian Madison...
PABLO PICASSOTête de femme, 1963Oil on canvas28 3/4 x 21 5/8 in73 x 54.9 cm© 2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Patrick Goetlin. Courtesy Gagosian. According to...
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Picasso’s Weeping Woman as Artist Instead of Muse: Dora Maar’s Retrospective...
Rogi André (Rozsa Klein), Dora Maar, vers 1937 Silver Gelatin Print, 29.9 x 39.4 cm Purchased in 1983, Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne, Centre de création industrielle ©...
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Just Like a Woman: Françoise Hardy as a Muse
Actress Francoise Hardy in Amsterdam, 16 December 1969. Taken by Evers, Joost / Anefo. Image © Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl “She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman,...
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Marie-Antoinette Stars at an Exhibition at the Conciergerie
Marie-Antoinette exhibition at the Conciergerie. Photo: Sarah Bartesaghi Truong In a must-see exhibition in Paris, the Conciergerie shines the spotlight on how the image of Marie-Antoinette evolved, as...
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Four Influential Feminist Women in French History
Simone Veil. Image credit: Flickr, ActuaLitté (CC BY 2.0) The French Revolution first proclaimed liberal and radical ideas and gave birth to the concept of feminism. However French women only gained...
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La Goulue: The Scandalous Cancan Queen who Inspired Toulouse-Lautrec
La Goulue as seen at the exhibit “Toulouse-Lautrec: Résolument Moderne”. Photo: Sarah Bartesaghi Truong You only have a few weeks to re-discover the modernity of Toulouse-Lautrec in the tribute...
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The Beautiful Spy: The Unsung Heroine of World War II
Image credit: Unsplash, neudekk On a hot and humid July evening in 1944, Gestapo officers knocked on the door of Germaine Pezet, a Parisian housewife then living in Aix-en-Provence. They were on a...
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Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin: The Tragedy of Muses
The Mature Age, 1913 bronze casting in the Claudel room at the Musée Rodin in Paris. (The figure standing behind, ensnared in her own hair, is Clotho, 1893). Image credit: Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0) To be...
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