Poetic letter: The surprise of Christmas

                                      The surprise of Christmas

I envied this cat, his beauty

No worry not disturbed

If this is his daily meals

He was eating delicately

Whimsical, like fondling

Old age has prevailed, yesterday

It is gone one winter morning

It is now free as air,

Like a pasha

In the paradise, of cats

We remember his nonsense

Clinging to the hair

Clawing also the curtains

And when we sang Christmas

He meowed at will

It ran by pulling the belts

Night bathrobes

In summer, quietly swatting flies

Breaking flower vases

Hiding our remonstrance

Like a sphinx, he was moving, skillful

Turning around my ankles

While I was in pain

It purred happiness

For relieving my troubles

He was walking on the high roofs

Of the opulent houses from Detroit

The cat was reluctant to go down

On seeing the firemen seek him

Suddenly it fled and meowing

Roll into a ball near to by the fireplace

We assistant at the last Christmas dinner

Sniffing roasted turkey skins

He slept turning the four paws in the air

Meanwhile hugs in the stomach

Now, when the joyful children

Will be sitting under the tree

They will open their gifts, merry

Then exceed a small stirring head

That of an adorable kitten, pushing mewing.

Joëlle Jean-Baptiste – Author

Here are four new exciting exhibitions in 2015

 The following exposures merits a visit in 2015 ...

INSIDE

20/10/2014  to see until  11/01/2015

Inside offers visitors a passage to the interior of the self, for which the exhibition space serves as a metaphor. This immense odyssey, both physical and psychological, invites us to walk through two floors of the Palais de Tokyo that have been transformed by artists in such a way that, from one installation to the next, we remain constantly immersed in the works, which lead us within ourselves – from our skin to our most intimate thoughts (…)

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/inside-0

© Numen/For Use, Tape Tokyo. (2013) Photo : Junpei Kato courtesy Spiral/Wacoal Art Center

Rubens And His Legacy: Van Dyck To Cezanne at Royal Academy Of Arts. 

From 24 January 2015 until 10 April 2015.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/baroque-n-roll-rubens-and-his

Expo Milano 2015 is a non-commercial Universal Exposition with some very unique and innovative features. Not only is it an exhibition but also a process, one of active participation among a large number of players around the theme of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. Open from May 1 to October 31, 2015 (…)Running for 184 days, this giant exhibition site, covering one million square meters, is expected to welcome over 20 million visitors.

 http://www.expo2015.org/en/learn-more

News interesting exhibits

Félix Ziem, a french painter

  

Ziem Felix, said Ziem, born February 25, 1821 in Beaune (Côte-d'Or) and died November 10, 1911 in Paris, was a French painter of the Barbizon School known for his seascapes and landscapes of Venice and Constantinople. Attached to the Orientalist movement, it is considered a precursor of Impressionism.

Théophile Gautier, who compared Ziem’s work with that of Turner, defined his talent:”Each artist has an ideal homeland, often far away from his own country... Ziem’s homeland is Venice. Prolific artist, whose sustained by art dealers active career was a great commercial success, Ziem leaves more 10 000 paintings and 6,000 drawings. The Petit Palais, which has received a large donation Ziem in 1905, presents a hundred works.

From February 14 to 4 August 2013
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 Paris

http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en

Marc Chagall , Modern Master

The Kunsthaus Zürich is staging an exhibition featuring some 90 paintings and works on paper by Marc Chagall (1887–1985). Chagall is one of the best known and most popular artists of the 20th century. www.kunsthaus.ch/en

Moi et le village, 1911

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1945
© 2012, ProLitteris, Zurich

The exhibition Keith Haring

The exhibition Keith Haring (1958 - 1990) presented at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris will understand the importance of his art, both historically and politically. Keith Haring was one of the most celebrated artists of his time, and today everyone knows his incomparable style and iconic signs.

Its graphics made ​​in the subway, his paintings, drawings and sculptures were intended to deliver messages of social justice and change. He fought against racism, capitalism, in favor of the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, but also against the crack and the AIDS epidemic.

Le Musée D'Art Moderne

11 avenue du Président Wilson
75016 Paris FR

http://www.mam.paris.fr/en/node/713