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Lights, lights and more lights! Happy New Year everyone!!!

Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, colored lights! Poissonnerie G. Ledreux near our subway stop, Alesia, neon lights! Max and Stella, my two personal beacons!! Blue sky, gold leaf at Versailles! I’ll post about Paris when I return but I want to share some colors now and a quick hello!  Happy New Year!

A Paris visit with Matthew Rose

Artist Matthew Rose, posing in his apartment/studio in Paris. I was talking in the last Paris post about how even the smallest emporium of business in Paris wants to decorate and have something beautiful on the walls. Stella and I got to see this in action the afternoon we visited artist Matthew Rose in his apartment/studio near the market street Rue Daguerre. Rose, the American ex-pat whose mail art, collage art and stamp art I’ve told you about was in the Axis of Evil show at Nexus in 2005, which is how I know of him. We’ve been email correspondents ... More » »

Petit Post on Paris

Hello all, I’m sorry I’ve been so absent from the blog. We all came back from our trip inflicted with a virus that took us down for days and days. I’m now coming out of my cotton-headed fog and will post a few tidbits from our trip and direct you to my flickr set, Stella’s flickr set and Max’s flickr set for more pictures and commentary. And in another post I’ll tell you about the Karen Kilimnik exhibit we saw and about my studio visit with American artist Matthew Rose.Winter in ParisWe set foot in Paris on a day that ... More » »