To Nashville's Frist Art gallery - to the Paris 1900 exhibition, which I'd wanted to see in Paris 2 years ago, never made it - and here it was! There was also a small but exquisite Do Ho Suh show - largely memories (rubbings and reconstructions in polyester of things in his former New York apartment - like ethereal versions of Rachel Whiteread).
Paris 1900 - a show about the city's growth, about the big Exposition (so multicultural), about light - lots of light - electricity; glowing ends of cigarettes and cigars - lots of tawdry opulence (no wonder Proust wrote about these upper class people, but took refuge in his bedroom) - and lots - lots and lots - of bicycles.
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