Archive for March, 2008
Ethiopie et Ethiopianisme
March 18, 2008In 1h around the world
March 2, 2008First Sunday of the month museums are for free so we try out Quai Branly. We have many a prejudice about the concept of “art premier”, like with the concept of “art brut” or outsider art. Actually they have abandoned the name, as it was a quite problematic way of calling everything that comes from “traditional societies”. It is art, but then it isn’t… So the concept of the museum staid but now it is called some no name like Musée des arts et civilisations d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Océanie et des Amériques”.
Now that the place is not as full as the past year, when it grandly opened as Chirac’s last gift to the Republique and the queues went all the way out of the building, so that we had to give up on our last try (not really a problem).

