From the 80′s, Miss-Tic makes the streets of Paris at the service of her art. Along with Blek le Rat, the maximum representative of the movement “au pochoir” (in English, drawing template) who was born in the suburbs of New York in the seventies, that originated in Paris. Figurative representations – especially female figures – made with the help of templates (pochoirs) invade from the beginning of the metro stations as well as many streets in Paris and are accompanied by text: eye-catching slogans while provocative, including poetry, where the artist invites reflection as citizens who are in the whirlpool of metropolitan life.

If you are visiting Paris, it is impossible not to find Miss Tic and her artistic mates’ graffiti. This woman, born in Paris in 1956, and considered the “Princess of the graffiti” since 1985 – was born as Miss Tic’s – her works not only cover the walls of Paris, but also up to the Olympus of famous. She just finished to be called to collaborate with major fashion designers (Louis Vitton, Comme Garçon, Kenzo), as well as with French satirical magazines, museums, festivals, publishers, and international contemporary art fairs.

Also “La Poste” (Post Office) has published a series of stamps of her work. It was on the occasion of the Women’s Day (the 8^th of March) that Miss Tic drew her most assertive and feminists women. Since then, her rebellious women – and men too – are everywhere not just in Paris but also in many other places in the world. Nobody knows how is called the “papessa del pochoir”, the artist hides under her real name the mystery for 30 years. But Miss-Tic is the heroine of many who revere her art and the many followers on this path.

Thanks to her – and all the artists of the movement – graffiti and tags are now considered vandalism, and entered museums and art galleries as an artistic expression of the new era.

For all Street Art’s fans, part of the works done by Miss-Tic will be on display in the Miss-Tic Exhibition, from the 14^th of January until the 17^th of February, outside of Paris (15 kilometers from the center of the French capital). It will be a nice opportunity to visit the city of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame and … naturally of Miss-Tic’s sexy and smart women.

The website of the artist: http://www.missticinparis.com

Miss-Tic Exhibition

Gare de Franconville – Les Plessis-Bouchard -

Espace Saint-Exupéry

(tel. +33 (0) 1 39 32 66 06).

Saturday, the 14^th of January to Friday, the 17^th of February, 2012:

- Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

- Wednesday and Saturday 10:00 to 12:00

- From Wednesday to Saturday 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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If you do not want to miss this unique opportunity to see the works of this extraordinary artist in Paris, get apartments in Paris and spend a day admiring the “angry” Miss-Tic’s women.

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Many parents find it difficult to go with their children on holiday because they usually are a problem when it comes to meals. We tell you that that’s not an inconvenience, because there are restaurants among its many and varied offerings that pay extra attention to families with children. So if you have decided to spend a holiday in Paris with your family, I recommend you follow this advice and relax and ignore the daily troubles they may cause.

Annette’s Diner Restaurant is located in Disney Village, an ideal place for children in Disneyland Paris. This restaurant has a children’s menu and children’s shows that will make your lunch a memorable experience. Parents can relax over lunch, because children feel so comfortable you will forget them. The average price of a meal is between 15 and 25 euros per person and opening hours are Monday to Sunday from 12:00 to 23:00H.

Something more classical, but where children are welcome is the Victoria Cross restaurant , a nice place with French and Swiss cuisine menus. Although there are no special amusements for children, it has delicious desserts that will make them smile, like mascarpone with whipped cream and berries, along with other delicacies. Its address is 23 Avenue Victoria and the average price is 30 euros per person including VAT.

Art Bistro is a place that has rustic southwestern French flavor of well prepared, subtle and traditional seasoning cuisine. There are meats, wild duck and delicious salads. It also has an brûlée Cassonade à la crème that specially appeals to the big kids. While having no children’s menu, and shows, the place is ideal for family dining thanks to its cozy atmosphere. Its address is 56 bis rue de Clichy and the average prices on the menu are around 15 euros.

Leprocope restaurant is one of the oldest in Paris and full of traditions, because it is said that many great men who fought for the freedom of France dined at their tables, you can do the same with your family. Their menus are traditional, such as coq au vin or steak roasted in sauces. For children there are special delicious menus with everything they love. Its address is 13 rue de l’Ancienne and the price for children’s menu is 7.90€  for adults the price  range is between 19.90 and 26.40 euros per person.

For a special dinner with family visit Le Celadon, this place is distinguished by its magnificent attention, good food and pleasant atmosphere. It specializes in French cuisine, tinged with touches of refined international cuisine. While their prices are not cheap, your family will be happy to taste the amazing flavor that defines Paris. The address is 15 rue Daunou and children’s menu price is  21 euros,  adults between 55 and 100€

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Tattoo artists are part of urban culture and re-sculptors of the body, because with their pins and needles they are re signifying our biological geography with designs and give color to the skin. Their work require many tools, such as needles, airbrushes, sterilizing machines, sprays, dyes and pigments, drawing dies and many others disposables used for maintaining the area sterile for being tattooed, because this is what health authorities require .

Even today tattoos are used to reinforce makeup outlining lips, eyes and blush, here we will let you know about places where there are shops for tattoo artists in Paris, because you might want to get a tattoo to remind you of your passing through this city.

Needless to say, sterilizing machines or autoclave, which are essential to keep the materials used in a total aseptic environment, are sold in any medical products shop.

Paris Tattoo is a tattoo shop founded in 1989 and named after the tattoo artist and owner. His fame has spread around the world for his designs and quality. Located at 1820 South Blvd, Charlotte, where you can find some tattoo products, designs and piercings.

Tin-tin Tatouages ??is located at 37 rue de Douai and is an establishment of prestige, arriving tattooists and people from around the world who want tattoos come here. His designs are true works of art that every tattoo lover would like to have.

Karl Marc Tattoos is a place where tattoo is a cult. Located at 13, Rue de la Grange aux Belles, his designs are unique because they are tied to nature, like birds, flowers, etc., transforming bodies into a beautiful allegory of it. Besides being a great designer, Karl Marc sells  entirely handmade and guaranteed delivery tattoo machines. For pricing and purchase applications just write to kustomtatoo@yahoo.com.

All Tattoo has everything tattooists need to provide its customers with the best designs with the best quality materials. Located at 16, rue Saint Sabin, it is considered an open community for all tattoo lovers and it has the best of designs album, inks and piercings.

Anomaly Tattoo & Piercing is an exclusive shop designed to satisfy the world of tattooing. Its team consists of Karim, the  manager and two tattoo artists and piercing specialists. Located close to the Pompidou Center, its range of designs is so broad that it seems that no tattoo is impossible, including interesting works of art that can cover important parts of the body and graphic designs of small dimensions.

Tattoos must be taken very seriously, because you need high quality products, because the skin and the body are exposed. So please note that all these places are well known for their reliability and have the best products in the local market.

Nancy Guzman

January is a great month to travel and do new things. Rent apartments in Paris and enjoy all the sights that this city has to offer.

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The blues-rock American duo of powerful and old flavor, Black Keys play at the Zenith hall in Paris on January 25 (http://www.zenith-paris.com/index2.php?s=1&k=&p = 1) – are on track to become not only the most important band in America but also probably one of the most successful reaping sales. However, any of its only two members, guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney can go shopping or have a drink on a Saturday night with the assurance that virtually no one will recognize them.

So unexpected, surprising, gradual and stealthy has been the rise of this band from Akron, Ohio, whose utter contempt for everything related to image had the cover of their best selling album to date and last until the very recent emergence of El Camino (produced as well as the acclaimed Attack and Release, 2008, by Danger Mouse), the magnificent “Brothers”, is characterized by having just the phrase (in white, except the name of the group, which appears in red, inscribed on a black background in a thin white frame) “This is an album by the Black Keys. The name of this album is Brothers. “

Paradoxically, as once again demonstrating that  the lack of image is also an image and is absurd to be outside it, the album won a Grammy that year for the best presentation.

In his native Akron, Auerbach (half of whose family, Polish Jews, was almost completely exterminated by the Nazis during the Second World War) and Carney were such outcasts so disconnected from the rest of the world  despite not having much initially in common except the fact of recording demos at home, decided to form a rock band. At that time Auerbach listened only the most bizarre and obscure blues and hip-hop bands, Carney, only listened to new indie music trying to look “cool” . He had been forced to stop playing guitar for he was shockingly bad at it despite receiving lessons, moving on to drums, an instrument which all the training he obtained had been entirely self-taught (he hasn’t even bought a magazine on the subject) For Auerbach, precisely there lies his strength as a percussionist, “He can not even keep pace with normal rock. There are kids with much more technica ability l working as clerks in record stores, but none has a such an original sound. “

Their first concert, held in a tavern in Cleveland in 2002, was attended by eight people and they made ten dollars that night, which to them  seemed absolutely wonderful, as they often drove hundreds of miles to play in places where nobody would go to see them.

Paul Oilzum

Discovered by John Peel just before he died, they are now one of the most interesting bands in the alternative scene, possessing a particularly memorable live show. Do not miss the highly anticipated concert if you rent apartments in Paris

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With the attractive exhibition Audrey Cottin: Charlie & Sabrina, qui l’eût cru? Paume Jeu, ends its “Satellite 4″ program. The exhibition will be open until the 5^th of February  2012, and will explore the subjectivity with an interesting proposal, including actions taken by this French artist in collaboration with different people, including several artists, who she invited to join her art world, where the creation works as an exchange.

It seems difficult to define Audrey Cottin’s work, which could qualify as performative sculpture, because of her usage of multiple platforms and the collaborations that she chooses, among which are: writers, artists, sculptors, or simply people. Through them, she ventures into the principles of fusion and association to achieve resonance and perfection. The resonance is inspired by a practice used in theater during the nineteenth century, in which the spectators were committed to clapping, to ensure the success of the play. The same that Cottin defined as: Clapping Groups to her performance. Here people come into a nice dynamic, which leads them to believe in the symbolic gesture of the applause as a collective act of gratitude and happiness. The Clapping last 20 minutes and are shared rhythm.

The exhibition is like a game, in which, Cottin uses multi-support and is fully interactive. To Cottin this is a very serious game, because it seeks to explain the collective vision of art, wondering about the authorship of a work, both in the forms and the results of it. For this, she has taken a series of photographs on the uprisings action of the works by other artists, in order to change the position of the object to be suspended, subverting its original position.

Everything has to do with the exchange, that troubling time when things flow and the point is lost. This is what Cottin investigates with her transfers, for which she connects with another artist at a distance, via satellite to see his performance.

Cottin is passionate about the materiality; nevertheless, her work is a collection of subjectivities. Through these, she explores what stresses the art and creation, as the notion of authorship that refers to the concept of individual development, self-concept of modernity, which is permanently questioned in the twentieth century. Michel Foucault argues that the author played the role of regulator the fiction since the nineteenth century, role characteristic of the industrial and bourgeois individualism, as well as the private property. Also, the notion of authorship was harshly criticized by the Bauhaus, he saw it in the use of the machine an ideal way to avoid the “artistic vanity.”

For more information http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=1498&lieu=1

Nancy Guzman

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There are quite a few voices which say that the economic recession that the Western world is going through is just a symptom of a much bigger crisis which has at least three sides to it: the increase of food prices, the energy crisis and the ecologic disaster, directly related with the incidence of the human race in the acceleration of global warming (at the current pace, ice will have disappeared completely from the North Pole in summer in just a few decades), to which our governments, hostages of the interests of the large multinational corporations, don’t seem to do nothing about (the recent climate summit in Durban was unable to carry out an agreement limiting toxic emissions from the countries, like in all other previous ones, postponing ‘sine die’ the problem, despite that according to most experts we’re running out of time).

The worst seems to be once more the insistence on behalf of the authorities and official bodies in denying this problem and persisting in maintaining this great farce. And so, while the ecological organizations like Greenpeace regretted the umpteenth triumph of the great contaminators at the end of the summit over the interests of the citizens and the planet, the UN Secretary for climate change didn’t hesitate in qualifying its results as extraordinary and saluting the world in a way which seemed to inaugurate a new and hopeful era.

In this context, and although clearly insufficient, we can just welcome initiatives such as the one of the city of Paris of offering 300 electrical rental vehicles -the Bluecar, which run on a battery of lithium and polymers- following a system similar to the public bicycles (the Vélib), another of the great ideas that the French capital was a pioneer of, and which is still largely successful in most part of the cities where it’s been applied with good will, and not just as a quick makeover towards the outside without any interest of it really working, such as the regrettable and thankfully minority case of Valencia.

They expect that this system, called Autolib, will contribute on the long run that at least 25,000 cars go off the streets of the capital and its surrounding areas, consequently improving the traffic and the levels of contamination.

It’s an audacious and innovative gamble whose first phase initiated three months ago and which aspires to create a following and to be imitated in most main cities in the world. In Paris and the 44 locations of the Île-de-France area who have joined the project, they calculate that every electric rental car will avoid the circulation of at least five private vehicles.

The number of initial electric cars, distributed in 250 stationary points, will have to multiply itself by 10 in a year’s time, so that there will be 1100 rental points with an average of five vehicles each.

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Equipped with a GPS, the Bluecars reach 80 mph and have up to 155 miles of autonomy. You might want to enjoy its advantages when you rent apartments in Paris

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Up until the 11th of March 2012, the exhibition ‘Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)’ will be open at the Petit Palais in Paris. The exhibition takes place a year after the 150th anniversary of the birth of this Indian writer and playwright and it’s organized around 85 pictorial works on paper by him.

The exhibition tries to show another side of Rabindranath Tagore, who is known as a novelist, playwright and composer who obtained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. However, at the end of his life he began to develop a singular talent in plastic arts, creating works with an amazing talent to reflect the microcosmos of his culture, works which today are still relatively unknown.

One could say his work is eclectic, exuberant and dynamic. In his works and, especially, in his paintings, he shows in a vital way the artistic link between India and the rest of the world. Through the handling of colour and the strokes in the construction of the human figure, he shows us a world of clear limits, assumed in his tremendously sensual culture.

However it will be his literature, his theatre and musical creations, inspired in a deep humanistic current, that we will get to know in depth. Tagore was a reformer of writings and a permanent innovator in his cultural environment. They attribute to him the introduction of the short story with poetic prose in Bengali literature.

He was one of India’s most avant-garde artists. His love for his land, Indian culture and freedom took him to write various songs of support to the Indian independence movement. In 1919 he renounced to his knighthood in protest of the massacre of Jaliyaanguala Bagh. His biggest input to the liberation of his country was the creation of a school in Santiniketan, because his approach on freedom was based on generating an emancipated society from culture and knowledge.

Tagore was born in Calcutta, India, in the middle of a wealthy and numerous family, with a sharp interest in art and culture. Among his brothers there were philosophers, novelists and poets who were respected by the closed circles of the white race. In 1878 he travelled to England and entered University College London where, despite abandoning his studies, British culture would shape his literary and musical creation, which can be seen in his columns which were published as ‘Letters from an exile in Europe’ in 1881.

From 1912 onwards he would be widely demanded for giving conferences in Europe and the United States, where he would establish important contacts with writers and academics who would see with interest the events in his country. The First World War and the intensification of the conflict of Indian independence would shape his outlook, defining his political position together with the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi.

For more information: http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/fr/expositions/rabindranath-tagore-1861-1941

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There’s no better prospect for 2012 than spending a few dreamy days in apartments in Paris so rent yours and prepare your suitcase, you won’t regret it!

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On the 7th and 8th of January of 2012, the Societé Canine de l’Ile de France will carry out the international dog exhibition ‘Paris Dog Show 2012′ at the Parc Floral in Paris, Bois de Vicennes. The event is pointed towards dog lovers, trainers and, just like in the previous years, it will become the most attractive meeting so that children can enjoy observing the different breeds and their skills.

The activities are divided in competitions and exhibitions by breed, in five groups per day. On Saturday 7th the groups begin with the presentation of the Rottweiler breed and ends with the Special Retrievers and Sunday 8th will begin with the presentation of the Speciale Berger Blanc Suisse breed and will end with the Speciale Chiens du Tibet.

Close to a thousand dogs of different breeds and origins will be exhibition all of their charm. For that, there is a whole set of rules that contemplates the aspects that the owners have to preserve, such as arrival and leaving time, places where to trim up, the elements that can be used and the ones which are forbidden in order to make their hair more shiny or accentuate its colour, etc.

But if you don’t know much about it but you want to present your dog to this competition, you just have to take a brush to comb it. You can’t take a whistle or make any sound inside the ring because you will be disqualified. For any rule which is broken, the judges can disqualify the dog and they will register in a book the reasons which made them take this decision.

Another of the aspects to take into account is the health of the dog. For this, Paris Dog Show has a vet who has the authority to accept or reject the competitor. If your doggy is lactating, she won’t be accepted despite your insistance; the same happens if it has a problem with its hair or it has lack of mobility.

The exhibitors who reside in a foreign country will first have to present themselves in front of the French Customs Service for the revision and fulfillment of the requirements demanded for the internment of animals. One of the requirements is the age of the dog, which cannot be lower than three months and has to have a certificate of vaccination from an official vet from the country of origin. The animals who are over a year old will have to carry a certificate of anti-rabies vaccination by the health authorities of the country of origin.

One of the most striking aspects of these competitions is to see the relationship of affection and loyalty that exists between owner and dog, which brings the latter to unleash all of its charm, agility and skills in total silence, like if he was tied by an invisible connection to its owner. It’s a beautiful exhibition which teaches us to see the relation between pets from another point of view, not only personal pleasure but as a compromise of mutual tenderness.

For more information: http://www.sc-if.org/

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If the New Year’s Eve parties left you exhausted and you need to relax urgently, rent apartments in Paris in good time and enjoy this beautiful meeting with man’s best friend at Paris Dog Show 2012.

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Until January 15 at La Maison Rouge in Paris Mémoires du futur, the Olbricht collection will be displayed. This exhibition of works from the collection of Thomas Olbricht is exhibited for the first time in France, while the Antoine de Galbert collection is displayed at the Me Collectors Room in Berlin, as a way of exchange and dialogue of these collectors of beauty.

The exhibition curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann and Georg Laue of the Wunderkammer, explores the characteristics that unify in a single grand reunion different collections, being worthy of highlighting the eclectic character that the Olbricht Collection has. In this collection, which is beyond setting a definite line of art, you can see that there is an intention to bring together works that reflect the beauty of human creation through a universal theme as death, religion, eroticism, frailties and so on.

Thomas Olbricht is an endocrinologist and biochemist who has devoted part of his time to be a collector of art and create an exhibition space for collectors, the Me Collectors Room. Among the works that make up his rich collection it includes paintings by Daniel Richter, John Currin, Sigmar Polke, Franz Gertsch, among others. There are also ancient works by Dürer, Schongauer, Goya and Caillot. The photography collection has works by Robert Capa, Diane Arbuada, Lisette Model and Cindy Sherman. There are also installations by Elmgreen and Dragster, Marc Quin, Stefano Bertozzi and Casoni Giampaolo.

Olbricht began to collect from an early age. His first collections were stamps he collected and jealously guarded. Then he passed to  objects and finally works of art . Since the 90′s of the last century, his collection has increased, growing up to 3,000 works by 250 artists, making it one of the largest collections in Europe.

An interesting part of his collection and a clear view of Olbricht’s philosophy of art, is the Cabinet of curiosities, consisting of various objects that intersect temporarily. Among the objects we find skulls, ivory figures that belonged to kings and objects that depict death. The Cabinet symbolizes everything that moves art: life, death, eroticism. Hence, it has become a permanent piece of his art exhibitions.

Among the artistic concerns that move Olbricht, one is to make the me Collectors Room not just a private museum containing his collection, but a laboratory of art exhibitions open to collectors from all over the world, generating a dynamic that opens the door to knowledge and appreciate the sense that it has in the preservation of art for the future.

It is interesting to see this beautiful collection of works that crosses the time line of artistic trends, styles, and is intuitively a search of aesthetic creation.

For more information: http://www.lamaisonrouge.org/spip.php?article763&date=cours

Nancy Guzman

Nothing is more romantic than spending a few days of January in apartments in Paris to fully enjoy the city and succumb to the temptation to visit all the good expos and art shows this city has all year round.

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