“… I am
puzzled with the battered glamour of this city
built for electric illuminations, swift flirtations,
as I follow the paths to dead poets shaped in solemn statuary …”
Patricia Spears Jones, “Femme du monde“
Tag: paris
PGT – Living with art
Boris Vian
Alexandra Schwartz on Vian for the newyorker (August 2014). Article is on Vian’s “L’Écume des Jours” and “I Spit on Your Graves,” Michel Gondry’s “Mood Indigo”, James Baldwin’s remarks on Vian in “The Devil Finds Work,” and some of Vian’s contemporaries – Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin” and Vladimir Pozner’s “The Disunited States.”
Luc Sante on The Other Paris
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…thoughts on the figure of the flaneur appears at about 41:00.
Author’s site, old blog, on Slate, on Criterion Collection. Paris Review interview. NPR.
Marilyn defaced
Pablo covers le salon du dessin
I, generally, love drawings and works on paper. I would not mind seeing this fair, here in Miami. I would much prefer a not-for-profit dedicated to drawings. Thanks for covering it, Pablo. (Flickr Link)
PGT – Jeune Creation 2007
Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo will participate in Exposition Jeune Création 2007, in Paris.
The press release(pdf). PGT gets my vote for the Prix Jeune Creation Prize (3000 e).