Thiaroye massacre
It’s been nearly 80 years since hundreds of Black West African soldiers who fought for France’s freedom against Nazi Germany during WWII were killed in cold blood by their fellow…
NEVER TOO SMALL: Architect’s 90’s Inspired Apartment, Paris 57sqm/614sqft
Nestled inside a two-story industrial building in eastern Paris, the extraordinary Maximalist mini loft reflects a Nintendo and comic book filled childhood and the creative passion of its owner, architect…
House Tours: A Colorful Parisian Apartment in France
Alice and Anaïs are the founders of the creative studio Girlzpop and of the media company, MOYO. And their French apartment has classic Parisian elements — crisp white walls, crown…
NEVER TOO SMALL Central Paris Revolution Era Small Apartment – 42sqm/450sqft
Located on the 5th floor of a Parisian revolution era building, the 42sqm 7 MCH apartment was completely transformed by studiobravo to take full advantage of a beautiful view of…
Inside The Production Of ‘City Of Ghosts’ With French Animation Studio TeamTO
How to describe City of Ghosts, a new series that leafs through the many layers of Los Angeles’s past? Its creator Elizabeth Ito has disavowed the word “mockumentary”: she didn’t…
Trading clunkers for electric bikes: France moves to offer financial incentive
France is offering the owners of old, exhaust-belching cars the opportunity to hand over their vehicles for scrap in return for a 2,500 euro ($2,975.00) grant to buy an electric…
How the Louvre Codified Essentialism in Art History
The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.
Proms Extra: Opium and Creativity in the 19th c.
From Thomas De Quincy via Coleridge to Berlioz, a second-generation opium addict, Daisy Hay and Richard Davenport-Hines discuss why drugs were thought integral to creativity first in England and later…