SHARING WITH ME

It had been well over a year since I had gone to VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ for a temporary exhibition at the LAM. It was Modigliani. There hadn’t really been too much that I wanted to see since. But this was a must. A collection. I really like visiting such exhibitions as I wonder where the collector got his idea and why did he take such an interest in the works we will see. The exhibition was called « From Picasso to Seraphine » Wilhem Uhde was a German  art collector and critic, and was one of the first supporters of cubism before fighting for the recognition of those he termed the "modern primitives". By following his progression, from his meeting with Picasso through to his discovery of Séraphine Louis, the LaM modern art museum was to show  a selection of works from major public and private collections in France and abroad. This is more or less what I found on Internet. The LaM home page is not translated into English.  Very strange, as Lille, the largest city c...

After the exhibition on Pop Art it seemed like the right time to visit Le Musée de la Monnaie and see « Women House ». Those years in the 60’s and 70’s when Women too stood up for their rights. The French were really not into the Women’s Liberations movement. I arrived back in Paris in the late 70’s and had been part of the movement in Australia. However, I have absolutely no memory of women screaming for their rights, just as they should have done. In actual fact, I never really belonged to any feminist group. I was divorced with a small child and just had to get on with living and earning enough so Nicky could have a decent life. I did want to see this exhibition and was not disappointed.   Women  House is the meeting of two concepts: a gender - the female - and a space - the domestic one. Public space was always masculine while the domestic space was for a long time the prison or the shelter of women. One got married, gave up a job and became a housewife a...