Monday, October 30, 2006

Battered by the waves of contemporary art ...

The website Fluctuat.net keeps track of all kinds of fun stuff like art-- mostly contemporary-- and film. There's a list of exhibits with reviews and commentary, a blog ("Chroniques"), and certain items gathered together in "Dossiers" -- articles on Bob Dylan, for example, or Da Vinci Code. Though the site doesn't seem to be entirely Parisian, following the "actualité culturelle" in France means keeping up with what's going on in Paris, and there's also the matter of its title.

Fluctuat nec mergitur is Paris's motto, and has been since some obscure time in the Middle Ages when the Water Merchants' Guild was the most powerful trades corporation. The Latin phrase means, "battered by the waves, [he? she? it?] does not sink."

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