Paris Noir ad Centre Pompidou
The Light Before the Fade
On an unusually warm and sunny spring afternoon, I found myself climbing the escalators of the Centre Pompidou in Paris with a strange sense of expectancy and loss. It would probably be the last time I would enter the museum before its five-year closure. The Pompidou has been a kind of uneven compass in my own art-viewing life, pulling me back since the early 1990s; I must have seen more than 100 shows there. But this visit was different. I had anticipated the show would be historically signific (…)
