Esther Shalev-Gerz at the Jeu de Paume

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Esther Shalev-Gerz, Les Inséparables, 2000-2010
Upstairs at the Jeu de Paume is a survey exhibition of Lithuanian born artist, Esther Shalev-Gerz. Unfortunately the projects on show – carried out in Germany, Sweden, France and England – are telling of the dubious nature of publicly commissioned art projects. Each project in the show deals with the appropriate [...]

Lisette Model at the Jeu de Paume

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Lisette Model, Lower East Side, New York, 1950
Lisette Model, photographer and teacher (1901 – 1983), encouraged her students to take a visceral approach to photography. This is at the heart of her own practice and evident in the immediacy of her subjects – from rich corpulent ladies in Nice to caberet drag queens and down-and-outs on [...]