If you’ve been checking this blog and wondering about three weeks of silence, it’s because I’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to Paris, Rome, Venice. Florence, Mantua, Ferrara, Ravena and a night on the Adriatic coast. The purpose of the trip was to see as much art as possible from Roman times all the way up to “cutting edge” at the Venice Biennale. We walked countless miles, climbed well over 1000 stairs and looked at art until we couldn’t see. I’ll be sharing photos with you over the next many weeks. Although many museums did not permit photography, I took photos wherever and whenever allowed.
First stop was at Palais de Tokyo which was hosting an extensive exhibit of shoes by designer Roger Vivier. After seeing the exhibit, we recommended it to a young Japanese woman, a representative of a Japanese shoe designer, staying at our hotel. She thanked us the next day saying, “Not shoes! ART! The other half of the Palais de Tokyo is an excellent contemporary art museum (no photos allowed). Here are some of the shoes and one of the drawings.
Exterior of Palais de Tokyo
Roger Vivier's art
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