Free Beacon Michel Paradis

Michel Paradis is a writer based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @MDParadis.


I Have Some Ice Cream

Review: The Museum of Ice Cream in New York City, closing today

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) The Portal of Valenciennes, ca. 1710–11 Oil on canvas 12 3/4 x 16 inches The Frick Collection; purchased with funds from the bequest of Arthemise Redpath, 1991 Photo: Michael Bodycomb

Inside the Eighteenth Century Green Zone

Review: ‘Watteau’s Soldiers,’ at the Frick Collection in New York City through October 2nd

Judas returning the thirty silver pieces

Shadowy Figures

Review: ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece’ at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, through September 18

American paratroopers drop from a fleet of carrier planes to land near Grave in the Netherlands in 1944 during World War II. In the foreground, left, are gliders which have already landed with airborne troops.

Making World War II Worth Winning

Review: Stephen Dando-Collins’ ‘Operation Chowhound’