by Nicolas Genty | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog
Japan remains a fascinating place to me. Its landscapes, its people, its history and culture are sources of excitment, thrill, happiness, surprises. Sufficient motivations to visit the current exhibit in Musée Guimet “An ephemeral portrait of Japan” before...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog
“If you leave early in the morning, If you go on these roads, By bicycle, We were a bunch of good friends, There were Fernand and Firmin, There were Francis and Sébastian, And then Paulette”… It is with these words that the song by Pierre Barouh and...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder were singing Ebony and Ivory in 1982, a song, metaphor, aligning the black and white keys of a piano keyboard with the theme of racial harmony, between blacks and whites. 2024, the Bibliotheque Nationale presents, at its marvelous...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog
There is little to be watched on TV in general and on Dutch TV in particular. There is however this program “het perfecte plaatje”, the perfect picture in which famous Dutch people compete in weekly challenges to deliver perfect pictures. Up to them to...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog
The year was 1990. A century ago. Live on CNN on February 11th, an older man with grey hair wearing a grey suit was released from prison in Cape Town in front of the world. He was grave but smiling and waving at the cheering crowd assembled to meet him again, after 27...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog
“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” This quote by an obscure American pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor Oscar Levant could have been made by Yayoi Kusama. Now 94 and living already since the 1970s in a mental...
