Sunday, August 28, 2011

Paris

- "Modern Collections from 1905 to the 1960s" & "Contemporary Collections from the 1960s to today", and "Paris-Delhi-Bombay" @ Centre Pompidou (Musee national d'art moderne). I wasn't sold on the building - it's a bit obvious - but the two showpiece collections are both very good, starting from Matisse and fauvism, and aiming for a representative survey of the major movements since. (I only skimmed through the "Paris-Delhi-Bombay".)
- (A literary walking tour with Sarah V). We always said that maybe one day we'd meet in Paris and, five and a half years on, finally did; Sarah picked me up in the morning and took me on a day-long literary ramble, concentrated around the 5th and 6th - one of the highlights of the whole trip.
- Musee des arts et metiers. I'm not normally all that interested in how things work, but this museum did sound kind of cool, and it was. Plus, it's the home of Foucault's pendulum. (Meribah - who, by happy coincidence, was reading Eco's book at the time)