Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

1.19.2008

Paris--No Entrance Fee Art

Some sampling of free art and where they are housed

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where it's free to view their extensive contemporary art permanent collection



Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--this David is about 1 foot tall

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--these plaques fill the whole room; all four walls

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris-Yves Klein sculpture

In Paris, some of the cheapest art is the culinary variety. These were bought at 7:30 in the morning and they are reason enough to wake up.

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--it's a huge space and not very crowded


Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--fleshy looking gigantic necklace and to the left is a short film that shows this man leading donkeys around and around a plaza

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--robot TV altar

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--young students in the museum


La Basilique du Sacre Coeur de Montmartre and the tourist--this was taken New Years Day 2008

outside of Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--not too sure if this was vandalized or not

outside Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--love that scuplture on top

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris--one calming room

Musée de la sculpture en plein air--sculptures park along the Seine--that's a brass sculpture in the foreground and Paris (around Bastille) in the background



Musée de la sculpture en plein air--lots of writhing on this piece


This needs no introduction

One of the tower's legs

Not too sure which building this is



Jardin des plantes-naked trees


Jardin des plantes

Musée de la sculpture en plein air-a sculpture of yin w/o yang...solitary sperm in a tube...comet blazing

a sculpture By Les Halles--DNA riding a penguin, fear as old as our DNA stomping on progress....



Tour St-Jacques being facelifted--some cool experiments were done here back in the days

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle-- a hippohorse breaking away from a buildings supporting beam