Events

Another Sunday Night Chez Terrance
San Francisco Bay Area author and Pulitzer Prize candidate Susan Griffin gives us a radically new interpretation of an erotic tradition which was practiced from antiquity to the early twentieth century throughout Europe and eventually America. Though Turkish harems, Japanese geisha and Chinese courtesans [...]

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She may sleep with dogs but she has hung out with exceptional people-

Hans Hofmann

Robert Graham

E.L.Doctorow

Helen Frankenthaler

Frank Stella

Born in British Mandate Palestine she was raised in a revisionist Zionist family and was “recruited” by the Menachem Begin Irgun. So after casting of the yoke of the Brits tackling the world [...]

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230 prints made ​​in Paris between 1898 and 1927 by one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century, Eugene Atget (Libourne, 1857 – Paris, 1927).

This retrospective, which includes well-known images and others that were unpublished, represents an atypical view of the capital, far from the clichés of the Belle [...]

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June 6.” Lest we Forget.” Come hear long-time Paris resident and author, Hilary Kaiser, read from her newly-released paperback WWII Voices: American GI’s and the French Women Who Married Them. In addition to some of the soldiers’ amazing wartime experiences on D-Day, Hilary will tell you about the French war brides’ [...]

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” There are only two subjects worthy of a song-Paris and love.” –George Gershwin

Aznavour, Bruant, Baker,Chevalier, Greco, Mistinguett,Montand, Piaf, Trenet–the names evoke powerful memories of the City of Light beginning in the last century.The tradition of the street or metro musician that continues to this day.

The magic is captured in [...]

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Helmut Newton

Grand Palais, Galerie sud-est

Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008

Metro: Clemenceau

24 March 2012 – 17 June 2012

10AM-10PM Daily except Tuesday and May 1.

The first retrospective of the photographer’s work since his death in 2004 has just opened at the Grand Palais. Often shocking, Newton’s work has [...]

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A fascinating Matisse exhibit has arrived at the Musee Pompidou.  It is not a retrospective as such, but an intriguing way of examining the evolution of his artistic style.

 

Matisse constantly repeated the same compositions with different canvases and treatments.  He often created a subject quickly and spontaneously and then followed [...]

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Thursday Nights at 9PM Play the teaser Known on the streets of his Brooklyn neighborhood as the Doo-Wop King of Flatbush Avenue and the white Johnny Mathis, Terrance has performed in the Catskill Mountains at the once incomparable Grossinger’s, in Paris at the Swan Bar and the Closerie des Lilas and [...]

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What a lovely start to a Sunday, to have a drink with Terrance and friends ensconced at a prime people-watching table at the Café de Flore. If you haven’t decided whether to book one of Terrance’s tours or assistance in advance of your trip, this may well be the make up your [...]

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The Stein Collection and lunch at the Mini-Palais, October 2011

Dear Terrance,

I just sat down to write to you.

We hope that you had as much fun and as good a time as we did today.

Aside from the intriguing Stein exhibition, made more so by our knowledgeable guide, lunch was beyond expectation, and [...]

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