AN ODD COMBINATION OF EXHIBITIONS
It didn’t take too much pushing to get me out on that cold crisp but sunny day. It was the choice that was so hard. There are so many exhibitions on in Paris that I want to see. This time of course it would be those closing in early January. Two. Oscar Wilde - « Insolence Incarnate » (I think that I would have preferred « Born to be Wild » …and Mexico 1900-1950. No way will I comment on the Oscar Wilde show. This is the first major exhibition to be held in Paris. The exhibition retraces the life and work of this ardent francophile and speaker of perfect French through more than 200 remarkable exhibits, some never shown before: manuscripts, photographs, drawings, caricatures and personal effects; as well as paintings borrowed not only from Ireland and England, but also from the United States, Canada and Italy, from French institutions including the Musée d’Orsay and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and from various private collections. Something more to say even so. His comm