Paris street artist / Artiste Parisienne: BauBô (Part 2)

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First of all, apologies to all for my long hiatus and my delay in getting up the second part of this exposé on BauBô (part 1 can be found here). But here it… Continue reading →

Paris street artist / Artiste Parisienne: BauBô (Part 1)

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(Une traduction française de ce blog va suivre éventuellement. All translations from French to English here are mine, or, in the case of quotes from Françoise Héritier in the section taken from BauBô’s… Continue reading →

Street art: Or, how I fell in love with Paris / Comment je suis tombée amoureuse de Paris

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People talk about falling in love with Paris. I didn’t fall in love with it – at least not in the way I heard people talking about falling in love with it, or… Continue reading →

Comics in France / La B.D. en France

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So I want to write a bit about the French love of what artist Will Eisner dubbed sequential art (comic books, comic strips, graphic novels, etc) – la bande dessinée, or “la BD”.… Continue reading →

Graveyards, Museums and Collecting / Les cimetières, les musées et la collection

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Why do people go to museums? Furthermore, why do people go to cemeteries to look at the graves of famous dead? Et finalement, the crux of my confusion — why do people go… Continue reading →