Palais Toyoko

Danielle and I went to see a contemporary art exhibit at the Palais Toyoko, ironically on Avenue du New York. The building opens up to a courtyard facing the Seine and has a restaurant on top with an amazing view of the Eiffel Tower. In the courtyard was a group of guys break dancing in front of a huge Michael Jackson poster, which was cool to watch. Also, there are a ton of old statues covered in graffiti, which I thought was bizarre until we went inside the Musee. It's very contemporary,very modern, very ...bizarre. We didn't like the cardboard boxes nor the "diagonal paper" and "spray paint". So we left and walked across the courtyard to Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. (The bonus of student art card, courtesy of BU, is that most museums are free or under 2 Euro, so we can go whenever for however long we feel like it.) We played "Guess the artist" because we had studied most of the movements in Art History class. Cubisme, Surrealiste, Nouveau Realisme, Minimaliste, L'art conceptuel, etc. Amazingly, we were correct almost every time!! I guess we'll both do well on our Art History final on Friday!