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...Bastien Baron, 28, client-relations manager First, I'd take a long walk from the Ile de la Cité along the banks of the Seine all the way to the Musée d'Orsay, one of our most beautiful museums. At midday, try the authentic Japanese restaurants on Rue Sainte-Anne, where you can get excellent ramen. Later, for dinner, I'd go to Le Petit Bofinger, tel: (33-1) 4272 0523, at Bastille, just across the way from the famous belle époque Brasserie Bofinger. It's roomy, but not too expensive, with a great wine cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perfect Day in ... Paris | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...five days. Nobody knew what had gone on. But starting from then, he began to paint quite differently.” And soon enough, he is brushing shoulders with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, exhibiting his work in the Musée d’Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. When Zollner meets him, all Kaminski lacks is a biography that will solidify his reputation as an artist with lasting significance, hopefully disproving Kaminski’s own fatalistic prediction that “first one’s unknown, then one?...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kaminski' Got Nothing | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...goal is not to be controversial just for the sake of it. But he insists, "In a house like this, you need to open the windows. We hadn't aired for a long time." He is an art historian by training who previously ran the Muse d'Orsay. Some of what he's doing is experimental, he acknowledges. He calls the Abu Dhabi project, which is set to open in 2013 and for which the Louvre will receive $900 million for the use of its name and for temporary loans of up to 300 works, a "leap into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacre Bleu! It's the Louvre Inc. | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...historian by training, Loyrette comes from a family of well-known French lawyers and spent more than two decades at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, including seven years as its director. Some of what he's doing at the Louvre is experimental, he acknowledges - including the Abu Dhabi project, which he calls "a leap into the unknown." People often ask if he's planning to brand museums elsewhere, but Loyrette says he won't even contemplate other such projects until it's clear how well this one goes. (The Louvre Abu Dhabi is scheduled to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Louvre Inc. | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...particularly egregious act of art criticism (or, more likely, drunken vandalism), someone broke into Paris' Muse d'Orsay Oct. 7 and punched a hole in Claude Monet's Le pont d'Argenteuil. Here's how one expert recommends fixing the 4-in. (10 cm) tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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