Americans in Paris: Article
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Arts Fuse, September 3, 2024
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Visual Arts
Several New England Museums have been on summer vacation this year. They begin opening their doors again right after Labor Day.
The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover reopens on September 3 with Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962. It wasn’t the celebrated Paris of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (1920s), but mid-century Paris, portrayed in the musical comedy An American in Paris (1951), still had plenty to attract young Americas hoping to forge a life as artists. Like Gene Kelly’s Jerry Mulligan character, many of these expatriates were veterans of World War II.