Paris Werewolves

"Cavalier fantôme," Coulée Verte René-Dumont, 12th Arr. Along the Coulée Verte René-Dumont in Paris' 12th Arr., the concrete dividers separating the bike and pedestrian lanes have been given over to street art. The coulée's gardens and path run along the lines of a decommissioned freight railroad. It's not clear if the barriers are part of the city's public art plan for the park, or if they were simply an irresistible canvas for local artists. Some works seem commissioned, others seem renegade. You be the judge. "Faire pipi," Coulée Verte René-Dumont "Les robots sont partout," Coulée Verte René-Dumont Any road barrier in France is a potential masterpiece. Bordeaux.

  We had just left an immersive exhibit on Alfons Mucha when we saw these windows up the side of a building in the 12th Arr. Even if they ditched their other lovers, I don't give these two much of a chance at romance. Since it's day in her apartment, and night in his, how will they ever overcome the space-time continuum? The Mucha exhibition was neat, mostly wall-sized projections of posters and details from his Slavic epic, choreographed to transition more or less seamlessly. Still, for all the thought that went into the curation and narrative display of the artwork, almost none seemed to go into moving visitors through the exhibit. Basically they clogged into tiny doorways, and some lay on the ground to fully take in the wall-sized art in the too-small rooms (to be fair, they were provided pillows for this purpose). This is the same problem that occurs at the Louvre in front of the colossally overrated (and tiny) Mona Lisa, despite any attempts to mitigate overcrowding throug