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Unique, English language tours of out-of-the-way parts of Paris are available through Paris Contact.  Jill Daneels leads interesting tours
for small groups focusing on such subjects as art, architecture, and history. Téléphone and FAX: 33(1)42.51.08.40;
e-mail: pariscontact@wanadoo.fr.  

If you plan to be in Paris for longer than a few days and have seen the major sights, you might telephone WICE, an educational resource
for the English-speaking community of Paris. WICE has a variety of programs that range from conducted tours of current exhibitions to
programs on French culture and life to French/English conversation groups. WICE is located at 20, boulevard Montparnasse, 15e.
Métro: Duroc or Falguière. Téléphone: 01.45.66.75.50 or FAX: 01.40.65.96.53. WICE also has a web site: http://www.wice-paris.org/ and
e-mail at wice@wice-paris.org.

Paris Art Studies was founded in the summer of 2007 as a new cultural and teaching venue for the English speaking community of Paris and as well as for visitors to the city. 

Its goal is to provide a year-long comprehensive program of lectures on the history of Paris and French art. The participants examine in detail and in-depth
the painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture and design of one of the world’s greatest artistic cities, a center of culture and civilization from the Middle Ages to the present.
 

Slide lectures are held in the Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, a contemporary art gallery established since 1999 in the historic district of the Marais near the Bastille. Past and 
present complement each other in this environment in which art and photography exhibitions change throughout the year providing a constantly evolving artistic 
background to the lectures. 

Chris Boïcos and Pascal Odille are the principal lecturers for the opening season. Chris Boïcos has been teaching art history in Paris since 
1985 in a great number of institutions notably the Women’s’ Institute of Continuing Education (WICE), Center for University Programs 
Abroad (CUPA), the University of Delaware, the University of Southern California and other American undergraduate programs in Paris.  
Pascal Odille is a registered French national art expert of post-war art and teaches at the Ecole d’Art et de Communication (EAC) and the 
University Paris IV -Sorbonne at Abu-Dhabi. They are also gallery partners and co-founders with Daniel Beckel of Galerie Beckel 
Odille Boïcos.  Paris Art Studies has a good website at:
 
 
 
 

 

 
 



 

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