How to Host the Olympic Games on a Shoestring Budget
As the countdown for the Paris Summer Olympics has begun and the excitement for the…
Category Time travel
What Happened to Picasso’s Mysterious Teenage Muse?
For a few Spring months in 1954, a melancholy Picasso found himself enraptured by 19-year-old…
Victorian People-Watching at the Beach
Today, our time machine is going for a pit-stop on a sunny, Victorian Era beach…
Proud WWII Pilots Modelling their Personalised Flight Jackets
They all had them; the standard A-2 flight jacket that every soldier was issued during the war,…
Memories of a Lost Valley: 5,000 Photographs Discovered in an Attic
Between 1900 and 1930, a poor and destitute seed pedlar took more than five thousand photographs…
Now That Is How You Write a Love Letter
They met in Paris in 1932. Both already married, American novelist Henry Miller and Franco-American…
20 People Not Giving a Damn About the Red Carpet at Cannes
My favourite kind of people are one the ones who don’t give a damn. So…
Our Zoom Date with Wes Anderson’s Sign Painters
It feels like a lifetime ago that were spying on the film set for The…
Remember that time the Motion Picture was Invented (and Everyone was Naked)?
One of my favourite things about Eadweard Muybridge, the man who gave us the moving…
When They Say ‘Haussmann’s Paris’, What Do They Mean?
Walking through Paris, as a tourist or a local, it’s hard to miss the sense…
Exotic Dancing on the Colonial Bandwagon
When I first saw a black and white photograph of Ruth St. Denis, I was instantly seduced by her, just as many audiences of the early 20th century were too. Who was this female chameleon from another era dressed as an Egyptian Goddess, a Hindu deity, a gypsy princess, a geisha or even as an Indian peacock? Ruth St. Denis in the […]
The Art of the 1960s Paris Riots
Over half a century ago, change was brewing in Paris. Right outside my window in the…