Lee Miller at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris: A Photographer Between War, Beauty and Chaos

Lee Miller au musée d’Art moderne de Paris : une photographe entre guerre, beauté et chaos

Lee Miller, the American photographer who transitioned from fashion modeling and surrealist experimentation to war photography, is the subject of a major retrospective at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris. The exhibition covers her career from 1929 to 1955, highlighting her early work as a model for designers like Patou, Chanel, and Schiaparelli, her collaboration and romantic relationship with Man Ray, and her harrowing experiences documenting World War II. After the war, Miller abandoned photography and lived in obscurity until her death in 1977, when her archive was rediscovered and her significance to both history and art history was fully recognized.

Interview with Ramuntcho Matta: Brion Gysin: The Last Museum Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

The article is an interview with Ramuntcho Matta about the exhibition "Brion Gysin: The Last Museum" at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. It explores the life and work of Brion Gysin, a multifaceted artist associated with Surrealism, the Beat Generation, and the invention of the Dreamachine. The exhibition traces Gysin's career through his calligraphy, painting, and multimedia works, including collaborations with William S. Burroughs and Ian Sommerville. A complementary show, "Underwood 2246449-5 (Les diables de Brion)," organized by Matta at New Galerie, features Burroughs's typewriter and related instruments.

Wiscasset Bay Gallery exhibition will take viewers on grand tour

Wiscasset Bay Gallery in Maine is presenting "The Grand Tour in Thirty Days," an exhibition running from May 23 through June 24 that showcases the evolution of painting from realism to impressionism to modernism. The show features works by European and American artists depicting popular and remote locales across Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including pieces by Jean de Botton, Luigi Moretti, Robert Weir Allan, Polly Parker Nordell, and Mary Cassatt.

At the Grand Palais, Hilma af Klint, a pioneer of abstraction

The article reports on an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris dedicated to Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist recognized as a pioneer of abstract art. The show presents her visionary works, which predate those of better-known male abstractionists like Kandinsky and Mondrian.

Monet in Le Havre, the Awakening of the Master

Monet au Havre, l’éveil du maître

The MuMa (Musée d'art moderne André Malraux) in Le Havre is presenting a summer exhibition that explores Claude Monet's formative years in the port city, where he developed the groundbreaking intuition for Impressionism. The show traces his evolution from caricatures and portraits to landscapes, highlighting how his childhood in Le Havre—with its bustling docks, luminous beaches, and dramatic cliffs—shaped his artistic vision. Key works include his first plein-air painting from 1858, created alongside mentor Eugène Boudin, and the iconic *Impression, Soleil levant* (1872), painted in the same harbor.