More muguets

Last chance to give a muguet, a tradition that began when King Charles IX of France was presented with a bouquet as a token for luck and prosperity on May 1, 1561.

Murano métro

  Writing for USA Today I described this métro entrance as looking as if "hundreds of multi-colored bras had been strung together."

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In May newsletter:

3 hours (or less) from Paris
Tantalizing Tangiers: the Moroccan port city that lured Jean Genet and Paul Bowles; more

Nouveautés

Architextural

Paris' old architecture is well known but there are a great many innovative modern structures as well.

Above: eye-opening façade of the Institut du Monde Arabe

Panels open and close with the passing of the sun, like the lens on a camera or an iris

The Maison de Verre or House of Glass in an enclosed courtyard on the Left Bank

- Thank you Stephen -

Morning muguet

May 1st is the Fête du Travail when vendors will be on almost every corner selling muguets.

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- Please give a muguet today to someone disabled, homeless, or who lives alone -
Years ago my daughter and I started this up, liaising with local florists

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Below: muguets at a Left Bank flower shop

 

Heart of cards

A heart made entirely from playing cards in a boutique window.

Fight club

Inside a men's boxing club in the Church of the Madeleine district.

Krazy for Klimt

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..and Hundertwasser.

A simple concept: immerse visitors in gigantic light projections of artists' work accompanied by music

Ends November 11, 2018

Viennese artists
Gustav Klimt

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

L'Atelier des Lumières

More photos in upcoming May newsletter

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Update: This exhibition has been extended until January 6, 2019