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Today we visited the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, which specializes in 20th century art. It is in a large building fronting the Seine. Visiting the museum's permanent collection is free. As with all museums in France, you must show your vaccination passport.

I missed loading the museum's app prior to our visit so instead of listening to a commentary on the art works I resorted to reading the text posted next to each work. Sometimes I find this text amusing, sometimes puzzling. For example, today I encountered a particularly spare work, too spare to be captured in a photo, accompanied by the text "the painting expresses nothing beyond its own materiality and that of the place of which it is part" which I suppose pretty well summed it up.

Here is a sampling of the many pieces we saw today.