08 June 2011
07 June 2011
06 June 2011
Monet's Garden, or how Ed learned to love flowers and country houses.
I realized I needed a break from the city, so the other weekend I took the train and then, the bus to Giverny in Upper Normandy, to see Claude Monet's house and garden. This is the place where Monet lived for the last decades of his life, creating and reshaping two lovely gardens, the Clos Normand (roughly, the Norman Yard) and the Water Garden, that he painted in several series.
The Clos Normand is a very charming large flower garden filled with many varieties of flowers and, just as important to the effect, birdsong. Even though laid out by a great artist, it doesn't feel perfectly designed, and that looseness makes it all the more relaxing and agreeable.
05 June 2011
02 June 2011
Encounter at the Grand Palais
I visited Anish Kapoor's installation, titled Leviathan, for the Grand Palais' Monumenta exhibit, where a different artist each year is invited to contribute a temporary installation. Rather than analyze the piece, I'll just supplement the photos with a report on what it was like to be there.
From the outside, the Grand Palais is an broad wedding-cake from the late 1800s wrapped around a huge iron-and-glass roof (sorry I don't have a photo of the roof from the outside).
Through the lobby was a dark wall with revolving door, its windows tinted red.
The revolving door practically threw me into this:
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