An attempt to contain the worst and free the best in our local and globally interdependent humanity in 2020 and 2021. Welcoming with prudent hope 2022.
Chroniques Covid Chronicles Day 25
On day 25, things only seem to be getting worse. We are not the masters of that game. The African saying “Quand le gros maigrit le maigre meurt” is terrifying developing countries. Celebrating Easter and Passover will be challenging yet so much better at home than at the hospital!
Aix-Marseille: réflexions cosmopolitiques au Mucem et au Grand Théâtre de Provence
Je sors bouleversée de deux expositions magnifiques au MUCEM qui, décidément se bonifie et trouve ses marques!
Ce magnifique tableau de Jacques Hupin, merveilleux peintre de natures mortes du XVIIe siècle nous éclaire sur la beauté et la futilité autant que l’incroyable portée symbolique des objets...
Exhibitions at cosmopolitan crossroads
As I write these lines, I'm busy packing and sorting the essential from the trivial. However I believe it's high time I addressed the main purpose of this blog, my conviction that our world is cosmopolitan in the sense that humanity always moved, even the indigenous part of us, met and cross fertilized artistically and religiously the various cultures in presence.
Kaddish for Benjamin Barber
This page is a friendly and sad tribute and prayer, mourning more than a dear friend met in 1995, a mentor and an extraordinary influence in my life.
WE, the people…
Ne connaître, ne vouloir connaître qu'une seule culture, la sienne, c'est se condamner à vivre sous un éteignoir. (Paul Veyne, Palmyre l'irremplaçable trésor, Paris, Albin Michel 2015, p. 141, cité par Hans-Martin Hintz et Anne-Catherine Robert Hauglustaine, Les Nouvelles de l'ICOM, No. 3-4, 16 novembre 2015 p.1.) Today is June 25, 2016, the day after... … Continue reading WE, the people…
COSMO POLITIQUE 