Never, ever, visit a high profile exhibition on its second last day. You queue for tickets, jostle for standing space and basically get poked and shoved as if you were in a recreation of a Greek market. Publicized as a Big Deal because the famed Parisian museum seldom loans out more than a dozen of its pieces at a time, the exhibition does justice to the masterpieces in most ways except one. The psychedelic neon purple lighting in the final section of the exhibition, whether intentionally or not, bestows a otherworldly feel (which I normally associate with Aliens or Halo) to the otherwise classical statues. I would have preferred to view them at least in low ambient yellow lighting if not in a large and airy natural setting. Pity.

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We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."

Susan Sarandon, Shall We Dance?

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