Saturday, May 22, 2010

April 25: Musée Zadkine (Zadkine Museum)

Damn you, Zadkine Museum! I wanted to hate you. Half of you is the work of Ossip Zadkine, a sculptor whose career can be summarized as “say… this Cubism stuff might look good as sculpture!” The other half features a special exhibition of a Chinese-French contemporary artist whose works are based on the thought that “hey… if I polish this clump of tree roots enough it’ll look like a butt!” But your little garden is so charming, the sun was so warm, the flowers were so bloomy, and the sculptures so well-placed that all my snotty art history hatred drained right out of me.

Bonus hint: almost all of the works are visible through the windows, so you can just hang out in the garden and be an admission-avoiding cheapskate (with a tan!).