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ReviewVisual Arts
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay — the defiant painters who gave us modern art
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
March 29, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Manet/Degas, Musée d’Orsay — a friendship and rivalry which drove art onwards
...Alongside are Degas’ portraits of Eugène Manet, the artist’s brother and eventually Morisot’s husband, and of Morisot’s sister; more straightforward exercises in naturalism, they attest to close circles...
April 26, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Architecture
The rebirth of Notre-Dame: from ashes of lead to ‘symbol of hope’
...The blaze sent the 19th-century spire erected by French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc crashing into the interior, destroying the roof, altar and much of the nave....
January 22, 2023
The Weekend Essay
The new age of the night train
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
April 14, 2023
Nestlé S.A.
Nestlé trims L’Oréal stake by €9bn
...The stake dates back to 1974, when Nestlé first bought into L’Oréal at the request of Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L’Oréal founder Eugène Schueller, with the aim of preventing a potential nationalisation...
December 8, 2021
Visual Arts
Daughter of Impressionism: Julie Manet’s fascinating family album
...Another is Ernest Rouart’s eerie “L’Heure du thé” (c1913): four figures in burnt umber, faces mute white, seated on the same chaise longue as in Renoir’s “Child with Cat” decades before....
October 22, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewMusic
Litvinenko opera oozes undercover evil while Mascagni lifts the spirits
...Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz is as slight a confection as Italian verismo has to offer, a simple tale of gentle, young love among the cherry trees....
July 19, 2021
ReviewVisual Arts
Poussin and the Dance at the National Gallery, London
...The exhibition invites us to see Poussin as Eugène Delacroix did: as “one of the greatest innovators”....
October 7, 2021
ReviewTelevision
My Father and Me — Nick Broomfield’s personal portrait of a family
...Maurice’s father, Billy, possessed the family artistic streak as a lace designer; one of his drawings in white ink on black card employs a dazzling trompe-l’oeil effect with its rendering of fabric creases...
March 19, 2021
FT Globetrotter
My Paris: Simon Kuper on life, love and loss in the Marais
...L’Aller Retour on Rue Charles-François Dupuis was a cosy meat restaurant where we’d take foreign visitors....
May 24, 2020
FT MagazineJan Dalley
Jan Dalley’s fantasy dinner party
...Pushkin will like the idea: his taste for French food led him to stuff his hero Eugene Onegin, on the razz in St Petersburg, with Strasbourg pie (foie gras, truffles, grouse and pork, wrapped in pastry)...
June 6, 2020
Watches & Jewellery
My Favourite Pieces: Yves Gastou’s sculptural rings
...He documented his collection in a book released last year to coincide with the first exhibition of his rings, at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts in Paris....
September 7, 2019
Life & Arts
The remaking of Notre-Dame
...So did the Bettencourt family, heirs to L’Oréal, while the oil and gas company Total announced it would contribute €100m....
September 20, 2019
Visual Arts
Orientalism laid bare: reassessing a maligned style
...At the centre of his 1911 masterpiece “L’Atelier Rouge” hangs a black and yellow band of Ottoman velvet, as prominent as Matisse’s own pictures represented in the painting....
March 8, 2019
FT Magazine
Artist Mickalene Thomas: ‘It was always a political statement’
...Eugene was kind. He was also a drug dealer. Bush became an addict, and when Thomas was in her teens Eugene was imprisoned. Thomas moved in with her grandmother....
August 31, 2018
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Delacroix returns spectacularly to the Louvre
...“Pirates africains enlevant une jeune femme” plays on the contrast between black and white skin, “L’Indienne mordue par un tigre” on the texture of animal pelt against vulnerable flesh....
March 28, 2018
Retail & Consumer industry
L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt dies at 94
...Bettencourt was the daughter of chemist Eugène Schueller, who founded the company in 1909....
September 21, 2017
ObituaryAudio articles
Liliane Bettencourt, L’Oréal heiress, 1922-2017
...He was a close friend of her father, served as a minister under Charles de Gaulle and became deputy chairman of L’Oréal....
September 21, 2017
Due Diligence
Liliane Bettencourt’s death could transform L’Oréal and Nestlé Premium content
...Key graphs: Liliane Henriette Charlotte Schueller was born on October 21 1922, the only child of Louise Madeleine Berthe and Eugene Schueller, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded what was to become the...
September 22, 2017
Life & Arts
The enduring avant-gardism of the Wooster Group
...More recent pieces have remixed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with “random readings” taken from Burroughs and Huxley (1984’s L.S.D.), deconstructed Eugene O’Neill with techniques derived from Japanese kabuki...
March 30, 2018
Life & Arts
So long-running, it’s absurd: La Cantatrice chauve and La Leçon
...Both written by the Romanian-French avant-gardist Eugène Ionesco, they have been paired nonstop in the tiny venue for exactly 60 years....
August 18, 2017
Life & Arts
A painter’s painters: Monet as collector
...Corot’s calm, classicised 1820s plein air landscape “Ariccia, Palais Chigi” is displayed alongside seascapes by Monet’s Le Havre teacher Eugène Boudin; on one, Michel forged Monet’s signature....
September 1, 2017
Life & Arts
Seven properties where famous writers once lived
...Why Eugene O’Neill, the US playwright and Nobel laureate in literature, formerly owned “Bellevue”....
March 9, 2017
Life & Arts
Gustave Caillebotte exhibition at Giverny
...A diver in body-hugging stripes about to plunge into still, empty water while his companion, wrapped in a dressing gown, looks on blankly, in “Baigneurs, bord de l’Yerres” (1878) balances detachment and...
April 1, 2016
Life & Arts
France’s furniture collection on show at the Biennale
...The most recent work on show is a furniture set from 2015 by Parisian designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, while the oldest piece is a bronze desk by Eugène Printz, dating from 1944....
September 9, 2016

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