SHARING WITH ME

It’s always a pleasure to wander down to the Jardin des plantes (Botanical gardens) at the bottom of my street, find a nice place mid sun-mid shade and read for a couple of hours. Yesterday it didn’t turn out like that. It was colder than I had anticipated and because of the luminosity, I couldn’t read a thing on my tablet. Then I saw this…… I have visited the Mineralogy Gallery many time but never alone. This was the moment to do so and actually look more closely at the different stones. The last thing I will do is turn into a geologist. This collection though is the envy of many museums around the world because it’s huge and because of its diversity. It was during the reign of  Louis XIII (17th century) when the king’s « drugist » began to collect minerals along with  medicinal plants. However, although the collection became important, the building for Mineralogy and  Geology was not opened until much later. Later again and in 1987, the giant crystal rooms ar

The Espace Louis Vuitton may well have been open  since 2006 in Paris close to the top of the Champs Elysées, but I knew nothing about it. It was going through all the exhibitions on in and around Paris yesterday. This artist caught my eye. So off I went. 

It’s a strange beginning. You get into a lift which will black out completely while you ride to the seventh floor. Of course you are told and those few seconds are to rush you from exterior noise and stress and then into another world. The space is over 450 square metres on the top floor of the Maison Louis Vuitton. It has to date, shown the works of more than 250 French and International visual arts. Apparently there are « Conversations » held in the Kitchen (???) regularly and which give the opportunity to listen to artists talk about their work with curators, art critics and even Philosophers. But I had been drawn to an artist called Alice Anderson. She’s a Brit and 44. She now lives and works in London however, she also worked