Posts Tagged ‘ France ’
“There is a deep sense of injustice right now, that inequalities have exploded, that the state is much less protective than it was of the weak, and much more protective of the strong.”
Source: Western France Runs Out Of Gas As “Massive Strikes” Set To Paralyze Entire Nation | Zero Hedge
Walton Ford
Le Jardin
2005
Paul Kasmin Gallery
For “Le Jardin,” the centerpiece of the Kasmin show, he lifted almost verbatim from the sketchbooks of George Caitlin, the American Indian painter, a scene of a blood-soaked standoff between a buffalo and a pack of white wolves.
Again life-size and produced as a triptych, this watercolor has more than one interpretation. Beyond being a nod to the vanished world of the Old West, it is a war of worlds and manners. It is a scene of incredible savagery set in a formal French garden with clipped lawns, an urn and topiary, a version of one Mr. Ford saw recently in Normandy. “I thought, ‘You take this American frontier and you bust loose,’ ” Mr. Ford said. “It’s every French person’s nightmare, and it becomes like Henry James, that conflict between European and American sensibilities.”
From America the Beautifully Absurd, NYTimes and La Petite Claudine
Gilets jaunes protesters in Bordeaux, 12 Janunary 2019. Photograph: Ugo Amez/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock
Are bourgeois progressives to blame for the rise of the gilets jaunes? A controversial report on France
A cool-headed appraisal of the risks and possibilities before the *gilets jaunes* and all the movements that will follow in their wake.
“Vent d’ouest”: A short by Jean-Luc Godard (or not), for the ZAD …
And the human has deserted the eye of the one who looks.. . .
Jean-Luc Godard
On the 17th of May, 19 squadrons of military police (that is, between 1,500 and 1,700 police) entered the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes for a second operation of destruction and eviction.
Camille Parmesan: ‘We are now sure of what we only suspected years ago. Policy needs to catch up with science.’ Photograph: Lloyd Russell/University of Plymouth
Climate Scientists Leave U.S. for France
Camille Claudel in her workshop (image via Wikipedia)
In the French town of Nogent-sur-Seine, the Musée Camille Claudel opened last month with 43 of the artist’s sculptures, the largest collection anywhere in the world.
Source: Sculptor Camille Claudel Finally Gets Her Own Museum