{"id":19015,"date":"2021-03-05T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colleensparis.com\/?p=19015"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T09:38:45","slug":"paris-churches-and-art-galleries-new-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/2021\/03\/paris-churches-and-art-galleries-new-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Churches and Art Galleries\u2013New Museums?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starving for art and culture in Paris? Churches and art galleries are the new museums filling the culture gap left by temporary closings of the best museums in Paris and the world.<\/p>\n

\u00c9glise Saint-Merri as a Gallery<\/h3>\n

Walking near the Centre Georges Pompidou, I felt an urge to walk into the Eglise (church) Saint-Merri. As I entered, the interior of Saint-Merri mixes scaffolding with temporary art undergoing restoration of its niches and paintings. Aside from the scaffolding, the church has been transformed into an art gallery. One of the two exhibitions is underwater, Caravaggio-style photography by Christy Lee Rogers<\/a> \u00a0and the other, wood and cardboard sculptures by Paul Walker Hamy<\/a>. Read\u00a0More description and photographs<\/a><\/p>\n

Art Galleries are the New Museums<\/h3>\n

Walking along a small back street, Rue de Thorigny, in the third arrondissement, I realized for the first time that it is filled with contemporary and independent art galleries. As I entered the Topographie de l’art<\/a>\u00a0, a large open space of a concrete floor, I admired an old wooden ceiling and viewed the A\u00e9rosolth\u00e9rapie (aerosol paintings) exhibition.<\/p>\n

Photography<\/h3>\n

Departing, I turned left onto Rue Debelleyme and viewed the Karsten Greve gallery. Through the window I saw black and white photography. Inside Herbert List\u2019s \u201cItalia\u201d series<\/a> displayed the German photographer\u2019s images of Italy from 1933 to 1961.<\/p>\n

Another lucky photo find one day was the recently re-opened gallery Roger-Viollet photo agency and archives<\/a>. The current exhibit is \u201cLes voyages d\u2019H\u00e9l\u00e8ne\u201d. Using a Rolleifix camera, square format, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Roger-Viollet traveled the world from the 1950s to 1970s to capture the daily life and customs of people in other countries. Ms. Roger-Viollet, who founded the agency bequeathed approximately 6 million negatives to the City of Paris. Photononstop now handles the sales of the photos.<\/p>\n

ParisArt’s<\/a>\u00a0website provides\u00a0the latest news on contemporary culture for Paris and France in art, photo, design, dance and books.<\/p>\n

Visit \u00a0Que Faire \u00e0 Paris?<\/a> (What’s happening in Paris?) for the latest gallery news from the Paris Mayor’s office.<\/p>\n

Churches are Art Galleries \u2013 Saint-Merry Example<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Interior
Interior and roof of Topographie de l'art 15 rue de Thorigny Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Entry
Entry to Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Actors
Actors during a 1937 flu outbreak 1937 Photo agency Roger-Viollet<\/div><\/a>\"Jim
Jim Sanders \"Lares\" 2020 Spray paint on fabric, nails and strings on wood masks A\u00e9rosolth\u00e9prapie Topographie de l'art rue de Thorigny Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Doors
Doors and Windows side entrance to Galerie Karsten Greve rue Debbeleyme<\/div><\/a>\"Herbert
Herbert List Exhibit Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Herbert
Herbert List Exhibit Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Archives
Archives of photo agency Roger-Viollet Galerie 6 rue de Seine Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Interior
Interior of Roger Viollet Gallery 6 rue de Seine Paris-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne traveled the world in from the 1950s to 1970s using her Rolleiflex square format camera <\/div><\/a>\"Windows
Windows out the window of Karsten Greve Galerie rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Exterior
Exterior of photo agency Roger-Viollet Galerie 6 rue de Seine Paris<\/div><\/a>\"H\u00e9l\u00e8ne
H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Roger-Viollet photograph of Cuban fighters under Fidel Castro Independence Day 1959<\/div><\/a>\"Interior
Interior roof of Topographie de l'art rue de Thorigny Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Herbert
Herbert List Exhibit Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Story
Story of Herbert List Exhibit Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Herbert
Herbert List Exhibit Galerie Karsten Greve Rue Debelleyme Paris<\/div><\/a>\"Women
Women in line at the Foyers F\u00e9minins de France, Paris around 1925 from the Roger-Viollet Collection<\/div><\/a>\"Helen
Helen Roger-Viollet and husband world travel photography. He killed Helene in 1985.<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starving for art and culture in Paris? Churches and art galleries are filling the culture gap left by temporary museum closings in Paris….Eglise Saint-Merry as a Gallery…Walking near the Centre Georges Pompidou, I felt an urge to walk into the Eglise (church) Saint-Merry. As I entered, the interior of Saint-Merry mixes scaffolding with temporary art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1114,682],"tags":[1298,1303,1300,1302,1297,1304,1301,1299,1306,1305,1558],"class_list":["post-19015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-explore","category-visits-and-sightseeing","tag-christyleerogers","tag-ecoledesbeauxarts","tag-galeriemeyer","tag-helenrogerviollet","tag-parisart","tag-photononstop","tag-rogerviollet","tag-paulwalkerhamy","tag-best-museums","tag-paris-art-galleries","tag-saint-merri-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HRogerViollet_CP2810970.jpeg?fit=1280%2C961&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19015"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20388,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions\/20388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-wptechsupport.com\/colleensparis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}