Thoughtful Thursday

Keep going, or turn back?

Window Wednesday

Steinlen's black cat in a window, waiting. 

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“Tournée du Chat Noir”
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
(1859–1923) 

Stepping up Saturday

 Climbing through art... One step at a time.

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 Some don't-miss exhibitions in Paris right now:

JR - Installation

LA CAVERNE DU PONT NEUF

See link for updates

RENAISSANCE: Da Vinci, Raphaël, Michaelangelo
L’ATELIER DES LUMIÈRES
Ends: July 2

AUGUST RENOIR: Renoir et l’Amour

MUSÉE D’ORSAY
Ends: July 19

 

HENRI ROUSSEAU 

MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE
Ends: July 20

 

HENRI MATISSE: 1941 - 1954
GRAND PALAIS

Ends: July 26

CALDER: Rêver en équilibre
FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
Ends: August 16

CLAIRE-OBSCUR

BOURSE DE COMMERCE - Pinault Collection 

Ends: August 24

 ADYA & OTTO VAN REES: Au coeur des avant-gardes
MUSÉE DE MONTMARTRE
Ends: September 13

 

Window Wednesday

The cat sees everything but says nothing.

Victory Day

 

Hello kitty.

At iconic English language bookstore Shakespeare and Company.

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Today is La Fête de la Victoire in France, a national holiday commemorating the end of WWII in Europe and a day off for schools and businesses. There will be solemn ceremonies, parades and wreath-laying at war memorials with a key event in Paris where the French President leads a military parade along the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe and lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The French tricolor flag will be prominently displayed alongside other European flags to symbolize post-war peace and unity. - BPJ

 

A place in the sun

 

Shadows lengthen off Place du Tertre.

 

Cat nap

 A cemetery cat on a family gravesite.

Table talk

Evening get-together in a Montmartre artist's atelier - presided over by kitty.

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"The artist atelier was a space for meeting, discussion, putting pictorial activity into perspective" - Claire Maingon, L'Histoire par l'image

 

Cat on a ledge

 A cat relaxes on a June morning.

Cat in a window

A cat contrasted against white lacy curtains.

Cat on a sill

Kitty finds a comfy spot on a windowsill in the sun.

Going up

A large cat makes its way up a Montmartre stairway.