Palais de Tokyo and the Musee dÁrte Moderne

Across the River From Quai Branly Museum, near the Eiffel Tower are yet another 2 wonderful Museums in Paris. 

The Palais de Tokyo is a modern White Cube gallery full of the most interesting installations.  Varied in quality, yes but there are so many of them each with their own big space - either white, bright, or dark, filmic, and some with chaotic art pieces.  But the shere quantity truly gives the measure of the French love of culture.


The suspended crawl-way made out of clear parcel tape was a mere bit of claustrophobic fun, but the marvelous tree growing out of the white  columns was a true deconstruction of the White Cube ideal.. 

Next door is a 'traditional' collection of modern art with paintings from Cubism to the present day, with just enough paintings to give a tolerable narrative, and enough star names to satisfy anyone.  But the glory of the collection is the Salon de Dufy with a huge work of art made for an international exhibition; and the Salon de Matisse with equally big figurative pictures.
Again, it is the scale that astonises- there is nothing quite comparable to this in London.



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