On my trip to Paris some time ago, I really enjoyed all of the street art that I saw throughout the city. One popular target seemed to be street signs, […]
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Hanging the moon and laughing goblins in Paris
Here’s two images of street art seen in Paris while on one of my Arts Adventures … I wish I could identify the artists, if anyone out there knows who […]
Vincent Van Gogh gets to see his own retrospective
I’ve never been a fan or spent any time watching the “Dr. Who” series, but happened upon a video with an interesting concept: what if Vincent Van Gogh, who struggled […]
Street art in Paris with the Arts Adventurer
Below is an interesting window guard, which almost seems more like a metal sculpture, flanked by two cartoon-like faces by the Paris-based street artist Chanoir, as seen in the Canal […]
Pierre Bonnard should have told the kid to knock it off
I saw this 4 panel lithograph by Pierre Bonnard at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. last fall, in an exhibition titled “Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday […]
A Sunday Afternoon with Social Distancing at La Grande Jatte
If Georges Seurat were painting his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” in 2020, might it look like this? That is, assuming the Gendarmerie Nationale […]
The Arts Adventurer and altered street signs in Paris
Check out our latest feature at The Arts Adventurer where I find street signs that have been altered or enhanced by street artists in Paris. For example, as you can […]
The Patron Saint of the Arts appears to be taking a nap
I saw this painting of St. Luke, “Patron des Artistes et Ouvriers de Art (“patron of artists and art workers”) at the L’église Notre-Dame-du-Travail-de-Plaisance (The Church of Our Lady of […]
Gregos Art, from the streets of Paris to your home
When I was in Paris a couple years ago, I kept noticing sculpted and painted faces attached to walls all over the place, especially in and around Montmartre. I couldn’t […]
A story behind a grave marker in Montparnasse
It’s a little hard to reconcile that these three images relate to one another, but they do. Starting with an unusual grave at the Cimetière du Montparnasse, our sister site […]