SHARING WITH ME

If you want to, you can walk everywhere in Paris. I do. As I was seeing Hector at 5pm and it was just 3-30 and leaving behind a very long queue outside the Jeu de Paume (see below) - I decided to go on foot to the Odeon - some 5 kilometres away. Another wonderful thing about Paris is that there is always some exhibit in a garden or a museum close at hand. Here there is the delight and fun of Kusama following her exhibition at the Beaubourg in 2011. I hope that I will be as energetic as she is when I am 80 but would prefer not to need access to a mental institution. She is very preoccupied by death and says so but when you see these statues, they seem so positive.  

And further on there was William de Kooning  William de Kooning "Standing Figure" 1968-1984 and Magdalena Abakanowiez (Polish and aristocratic) - her statues are tall and even taller. I watched as the pigeons and the seagulls vied for a place on top. After a moment, a seagull won.  Abakanowiez -

Paris can turn from a wintery -10° to a +10° Sometimes I think the + feels colder than the -. It was humid and dreary as I set out yesterday for the «Jeu de Paume» - one of the most important photographic museums in Paris.  Like many of us I had followed  the Chinese Ai Weiwei work and wanted to see his first major exhibition in Paris, «Interlacing». Of course he was not there as still forbidden to leave the country. Once upon a time I was a frequent traveler to China so was even more interested to see what work he had done since he returned from the States in 1993 and ‘til 2011. His blog was shut down by authorities in 2009. Many of his photographs showed situations that were not appealing to politicians, not to mention many of his written statements on political issues. There were not so many people when I arrived outside groups of Chinese. Two women asked the attendant how to pronounce Weiwei’s name, then stood in the middle of the first gallery and chatted about the food they w