The Centre Pompidou has been opened since 1977 and has had no history of destroying art. Actually they’ve done the opposite: they’ve given life to it.

Everybody hated the Pompidou Center when it was opened, because it didn’t look good enough for Paris. It was all plastic and blue and green pipes, like a giant toy in the middle of a city where, as Henry Miller also wrote, “the houses drip with history, glory, romance.” But the Ugly Duckling grew in Parisian’s hearts and I remember spending many hours browsing through its library, attending screenings, and feeling lucky to be exposed to innovative art from all over the world.

I think it sucks that those two art pieces broke. I understand your anger. I do hope they find out what went on and make sure it never happens again.

But reducing Catherine Grenier as someone with no guilt who may not fully appreciate or understand the works is a little unfair, don’t you think? Do you know she created the show. It must have been amazing, I would have loved to have seen it… if I hadn’t become an Angelino. Look at this:

“The artistic scene of Los Angeles – a complex multicultural city – is unique in its protean quality, a spectrum that goes from Californian culture to Hollywood, from underground movements to Disneyland. Through a large selection of paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films and videos, the book traces the multiform history of this scene from its emergence in the early 60s up to 1985, covering assemblage art, Pop art, Californian minimalism or “Finish Fetish”, the “Light and Space” movement, conceptual art, performance art, feminism, installations, experimental video and film.”

Sounds to me like Catherine is a Taco lover.

Croissant quizz:

Who published Henry Miller when nobody in America would touch him?

Who produced some of Greg Araki’s last films when no American producer would?

Arrogant Parisians like me!