Has Paris Become a ‘Backwater’?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.28.08 | 11:40 AM ET
This New Zealand Herald story asserts that, when it comes to arts and culture, Paris has become “second string” to Berlin, New York and London. Catherine Field writes, “[T]he worshippers these days are consumers, not creators. They are mainly foreign tourists who come to see the eternal Mona Lisa, post-modern American artists, the French Impressionists and Moliere. The city chemistry that produced rawness, dynamism, change and challenge seems absent.” This comes on the heels of Donald Morrison’s Time magazine piece, The Death of French Culture.
Related on World Hum:
* David Sedaris on Flea Markets and Foods Courts in Paris
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Mickey Gideon 07.28.08 | 9:05 PM ET
The true culture of Paris you’ll find in the little visited areas away from the city central. As a tourist in 2007 I enjoyed visiting all those tourist areas amentioned in the article above; but I also enjoyed watching a little girl eat snails with her father at a neighborhood restaurant. Don’t give up on Paris yet.