Section: Visual arts
Street views

Street views

Walls have ears and sometimes eyes too. Reflective eyes, as in this parking lot in Rome. Eyes open to passers-by at espresso time, again in Rome. Or melancholy eyes, like those of a lonely clown in Montmartre.
Smoking water

Smoking water

In Jacques Brel's «Plat pays», the sky was so low that the canal was lost, so gray that it hung. And it was the plain that smoked in July. Here, on the banks of the Broye canal, between lakes Neuchâtel and Murten, under a pale blue winter sky, it's the canal that smokes in the icy beauty of the moment.
Art without men

Art without men

All you have to do is read a museum or art gallery label to realize that women artists are rare. Yet many of them have revolutionized their discipline and continue to do so. Katty Hessel has devoted a book to them, and it's brilliant.
Caribbean art

Caribbean art

Quelque part en Guadeloupe. Soleil antillais et air du large. Au fil des ans, l’humidité, le sel, les embruns se sont attaqués à la tôle, l’ont rouillée, mangée, déchirée, sculptée. La modeste case créole – abandonnée, ou pas – est devenue œuvre d’art.