To learn about your past, take the metro

Thanks to Time magazine which I discovered when I was still a kid thanks to my dad's subscription, I fould today this video. It shows that the city's history is still available in metro stations, under the advertising billboards and under the walls.

Check that short visit to an unknown Paris.

Buren, Daniel

Daniel Buren, the artist who defeated the anti-modern art in Paris with 'les colonnes de Buren'... Check this article from Libération in which he criticizes the State and the City of Paris for their lack of care regarding his masterpiece installed in the Jardins du Palais Royal.

What more than stripes? We made so many jokes about the artist like when we had a T-shirt with stripes and we called it "T-shirt Buren". We also applied the concept to shirts...

More about the artist in the following links :

• Official web site of the artist
• Artcyclopedia
• Wikipedia commons