Category: Culture

  • Musée d’Orsay: “The Douanier Rousseau, Archaic Candour”

    Musée d’Orsay: “The Douanier Rousseau, Archaic Candour”

    As soon as my eyes set sight on the metro ads for the Musée d’Orsay most recent temporary exhibition dedicated to The Douanier Rousseau, I knew I just had to go. My first encounter with Rousseau’s art is lost in the haze of my childhood when while watching a movie The Dream painting came to…

  • The Paris of the Middle Ages

    The Paris of the Middle Ages

    The Middle Ages is an era that I have disliked for a long time, partly because we learned in school that it was an age defined by its darkness and the plague. But also, it’s a period which has not left any traces in Quebec or in North America, in any case not any traces…