Another warm day…and, of course, I only brought jeans which are darn hot for walking around. Today, Josh wanted to see the Pompidou Museum of Modern Art. It was about a mile walk from our hotel…relatively easy. The architecture is so interesting…with tubular escalators on the outside of the building…and lots of entertainment going on by street performers. View image. Josh said, “This is the coolest thing in Paris.”

But it was even more interesting for Josh, and us, on the inside. There was a new exhibit called The Big Bang which would capture anybody’s attention. The exhibition was built around modern and contemporary art works and combined fine arts, photography, cinema, video, architecture, design and literature.

Destruction, Construction/Deconstruction, Anarchism, Sex, War, Subversion, Melancholy and Re-enchantment were the themes. And when you look at some of the photos below, you will definitely understand why a teen-age boy would be intrigued.

The Bride

In Josh’s words, “there’s some cool and funny stuff. In France, there aren’t nude restrictions. There are a lot of nude pictures and a lot of nude art everywhere in France.”

After the exhibition, we shopped (he’s fixated on finding the perfect presents) and watched Mongolian musicians outside the Museum. View image

Did a 180-degree turn in sightseeing… from Art to Pere LaChaise Cemetery to see Jim Morrison’s grave View image….and Chopin’s grave….and Rossini’s grave.

Rossini

Are we done yet? No…it’s time for Les Invalides, Napoleon’s Tomb plus shopping for what? You’ve got it…souvenirs. It took at least 20 minutes to decide on 10 postcards – Josh said, “I’ll never have another chance to buy all this”

Then, back to Ile St. Louis…more shopping…more Haagen-Dazs ice-cream.

Almost over…