Friendly disagreement
I am in Paris for #HISPinParis22. It’s my first time back since 2019, the longest I’ve been away from my native city. As usual, one assignment for the class is that students have to blog about their experience. Personally, I haven’t blogged since < checks website for first time in months > April 2021. Yikes. [READ MORE HERE]
Omg smith blogging again!! exciting days 🙂 two things: Gwenaëlle got such a great photo of you teaching, it’s perfect! And second thing: I appreciated reading her perspective. I feel very much in between your two viewpoints, I can really get behind and appreciate the adaptive reuse, and the Musee d’Orsay felt more approachable than others (cough the Louvre cough). But at the same time, I definitely felt super overstimulated as we entered and throughout much of the museum, when I could see SO MUCH all at the same time. It felt like my head was on a swivel and I think I got more exhausted faster than I would have with less overstimulation. I visited the Centre Pompidou on my own and appreciated the more orderly sense of things, even if it was on the blander side in some places. In terms of art though, of course the Musee d’Orsay wins for me. <3 And I loved both of them in different ways!