25 YEARS AGO? Not possible.......
When you get skies like this in the evening ..... and in the morning the light is grey and it looks like rain, is it going to be another reading day or will I go off to the Beaubourg? When crossing the bridge, I looked down at « Paris Plage » and wondered if the tourists - the few of them - felt they were in the midst of winter or summer. Summer in Paris this year, is a bit of a euphemism. There was a small exhibition called « Magiciens de la Terre » - a Look back at a legendary exhibition. I could not believe for one moment it had been 25 years ago. Impossible. 25 years ago at La Villette I had taken a quick look at the short video on the Beaubourg site. Frankly, I was not too sure that this was for me. Far too many pictures on walls or looking like sardines in a can. At 11am, opening time, the tourists were not on Paris Plage but at the Beaubourg. The exhibition, as I remember it, was very much a first as it presented artists f...