Postcards · July 17, 2025

We got lost looking for the Fondation Louis Vuitton and stumbled into something stranger: Paris’s 19th-century Jardin d’Acclimatation. Once home to exotic animals and ethnographic exhibitions, today it’s a gently worn amusement park where peacocks roam and children eat cotton candy. In Paris, even the midways have history.

Postcards · July 16, 2025

We went to Paris specifically for David Hockney. His sprawling exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton wasn’t a greatest-hits tour but a forward-leaning statement from an 87-year-old artist still expanding his canon. From Normandy landscapes to unsparing self-portraits, it became an unexpected meditation on continuity, aging, and showing up.

Postcards · July 15, 2025

We had an empty Tuesday in Paris and zero expectations. What we found inside the former Gare d’Orsay was not just Impressionist greatest hits, but a full-scale encounter with an entire era—industrial ambition, empire, Rodin’s Gates of Hell, and a museum far larger than its reputation.