The ALIX Experience

12/18/2024

02/01/2024

This year The ALIX Experience Tour presents 'TRAVELING THE PATH OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND BEYOND, PARIS AND NORMANDY'.

2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the Impressionist Art movement which began in 1874. The ALIX Experience Tour will begin and end in Paris, where the museums are filled with some of the most important examples of Impressionists art.

Our museum stops will include: Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée Rodin and more.

Join us as we engage with signature works by the Impressionists, in the city where the movement was born!

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06/07/2023

Cooking Class

Our last day together was spent at Cafe Clock where we took part in a traditional Moroccan home cooking class. Our menu included a wonderful chicken dish which was simmered after being rubbed and marinated with spices, a terrific soup, a carrot salad, steamed vegetables and learning the proper way of preparing couscous which included washing and steaming, adding oil at different stages - the process involved using one's hands. The end results were all delicious! We also made desserts, one of which was phyllo stuffed, steamed and pureed figs - the snake.

06/04/2023

Shopping for Food in Marrakech

We were able to see so many dimensions of everyday life in Marrakech. One of the highlights was shopping for ingredients with our chef who would lead our cooking class, which we will share tomorrow. One of our first stops was to a communal oven where women brought their kneaded and risen breads to the baker. It was pretty clear that he knew the pans, the towels that covered the breads - no one got someone elses breads!
The small markets were crammed with vegetables and grains and even in the heat, meats and chickens looked fresh before they were transformed by spices and slow cooking.

06/03/2023

Up Up and Away
We were picked up at our hotel at 5:10 in the morning and drove to the desert to a series of tents with coffee and light breakfast fare. Watching the balloons at first lying flat against the landscape then coming to life was a beautiful sight to behold. Once boarded in our basket compartments, the quiet of being in the air, seeing other balloons in flight, the land dotted with other settlements, Marrakesh in the distance and the winding river was all beyond thrilling!

06/02/2023

Camel and Desert Dinner
During the fourth day of our tour we took a trip to the Agafay desert where we rode on camels - a first for many of us! We also had cocktails and dinner under the stars at Scarabeo.

06/01/2023

During our recent visit to Marrekesh, we were surrounded by the signature blue color of the beautifully designed Jardin Marjorell and visited the YSL Museum. The gardens were exquisite and the collection of Berber artifacts collected by Saint Laurent’s partner Pierre Berge really captured the Berber traditions around Morrocco.

05/31/2023

As many of you may know, ALIX has just returned from a wonderful tour, Embracing the Magic of Marrakech. We wanted to share with you some highlights from the trip.

We visited the Museum of Arts, the Museum of Photography as well as the famous Dar El Bacha Palace. The tile work was extraordinary with very intricate patterns and intense colors. Even the design and construction of the ceilings was exceptional.

05/30/2023

As many of you may know, ALIX has just returned from a wonderful tour, Embracing the Magic of Marrakech. We wanted to share with you some highlights from the trip.

Our First Dinner at El Fenn
We gathered together over a lovely and very lively dinner on the rooftop of El Fenn. Lots of laughs, wine and brought new and familar friends together!

The next day we toured the exterior walls and historic gates surrounding the Medina.

03/22/2023

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I am so proud to say that I serve on the board of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers (https://www.artandwriting.org) which recognizes and celebrates talented high-school teens across the country in the visual and literary arts through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 2023 is our 100th Anniversary! This morning Tracey Reese spoke on the Today Show!

Please have a look and support this extraordinary organization.
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Thank you!

“This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards! Fashion designer Tracy Reese, who won the award as a student in 1981, joins us live to celebrate the anniversary.”

02/24/2023

Art Exhibitions in Paris
Closing Soon: Ending January 27th

Any amount of time in Paris is a gift and Suzanne spent 5 days soaking up art and making some new discoveries.

Over the course of the next week or so,we will share some of the special moments with our friends as we spanned centuries and disciplines. If you can’t make it to Paris- treat yourself to the catalogues!

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell: “Monet - Mitchell”
Fondation Louis Vuitton - Paris, France
https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/claude-monet-joan-mitchell

“The exhibitions "Monet - Mitchell" create an unprecedented "dialogue" between the works of two exceptional artists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Joan Mitchell (1925-1992).
The "Monet - Mitchell" exhibitions present each artist’s unique response to a landscape and nature, illustrated in a particularly immersive manner. In his last paintings, the Water Lilies, Monet aimed to recreate in his studio the motifs he observed at length on the surface of his water lily pond in Giverny. Joan Mitchell, on the other hand, would explore a memory or a sense of the emotions she felt while in a particular place that was dear to her, perceptions that remained vivid beyond space and time. She would create these abstract compositions at La Tour, her studio in Vétheuil, a small French village.”

Also the major Joan Mitchell Retrospective is on to provide a full day of glorious art!