New Culture Project in Paris, This Time Led By A Woman

Chiara Parisi has been chosen to launch the first cultural program for the Monnaie de Paris with the objective of turning this gorgeous block long building along the Seine into a center “for dialogue between contemporary creation and the artistic professions.” The program and new exhibition space will launch in 2013.

Its important that Paris’ cultural institutions continue to grow and not shrink. Paris often feels stuck so this movement feels very encouraging.

There will also be a 3 star restaurant by Guy Savoy, a concept store, a garden, and the Métalcafé. Hopefully they’ll do something Merci Merci and Collette are not doing. There’s an opportunity now for a whole new approach to a concept store and maybe something that ties back to the concept of monnaie and revolutions afoot in the world of ideas about currency, maybe the fusion of cultural currency with new ideas for a monetary currency that gets us out of this mess. Let’s see what they do..

Sunday • October 23, 2011 • by Chauncey Zalkin

Category: Blog, Chiara Parisi, Cities, Exhibits, France, Sunday Discovery