April 20, 2023
Day 3 - Still Puttering in Paris
Andy and Friends Revisted
Another day with 0 km’s ridden? And you call this a cycle tour?
Well we are ‘travelling by bike’, and we will pedal. Eventually.
However there were important ‘travel things’ to be done today, so we set off at the crack of 10 to get them done.
First up, a visit to Arrow & Beast, a skateboard and clothing shop / gallery where our niece Liisa had a show (she does design work for Adidas and Vans, among others). Although the show had finished a few days ago, her co-exhibitor Margaux was still around to let us in the see their exhibits before they were taken down. In very small world fashion, while we were there another young couple dropped in, and they were old high school friends of Liisa’s from Calgary, and they know our daughter as well.
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With our first gallery tour done, we were on to our second.
We had such a good time with Susan last night that she very generously offered to take us to the Wharhol + Basquait 4 Hands exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton .
This is becoming a “Thing” for us it seems. On our 2019 tour we stumbled into a Wharol + Mucha exhibit in Prague (in our typical oblivious Griswald fashion) that ended up being our highlight of Prague.
Thanks in full to Susan, this one was planned, but is an equal highlight … and gave rise to the title for today’s post.
I’ll let the relatively few pics tell the story, and it was so unfortunate that Jean-Michel joined the “27 Club” just a few years after all the work on display was done.
Before we hit the Fondation LV we came across this stuffed guy. One lonely stuffed fox in a glass cage. Seems to be a Paris thing. Everyone else except our immediate family can drive right by this … but when we were in Paris in the early 2000’s with our kids we visited a very old, very large and very dusty taxidermy shop that we spent quite a bit of time exploring (Deyeolle established in 1831 - I think there was an giraffe from that year still there 😉). It seems customers through the years would forget to pick up their wares, so the shop would keep them, seemingly forever! There was everything from mice to elephants (yes). Anyway, this little fox gave us a flashback moment.
On to the Fondation!
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What follows is my curation of a very small sample of the works on display.
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We spent the rest of the day ‘foraging’ in Susan’s quintessential Parisian neighbourhood where we picked up the necessary supplies for an ‘at home’ Paris pique-nique.
Thank you again Susan for sharing your Paris with us. Hopefully we can meet up on the road with you and Suzanne in a few weeks!
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Almost forgot this!! Late addition after first publication!
The intersections between artists in the burgeoning NYC punk rock/ graffiti/ art world were evident in J-M B’a life.
His first sale of a painting, in 1981, was to Debbie Harry (aka Blondie) for $200 (one of his circa 1982 works has set the record at ~$110 million as the world most expensive art auction piece - and the artists rarely get any of this!)
He was subsequently the DJ in the video for Blondie’s seminal 1981 hit “Rapture”. This was also the song that put rap into the mainstream, being the first song with rap lyrics to hit number 1 in the billboard 100.
Seems like Debbie had an eye for talent, and for that, Rapture gets song of the day. Keep an eye out for the DJ.
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