the Man Who Brings Museum Works to City Walls

       

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The Making Of

A Day With the Man Who Brings Museum Works to City Walls

Culture

By Amy Verner

June 25, 2015 9:00 am

In 1877, William-Adolphe Bouguereau painted “Le Jeunesse et l’Amour,” a sensuous nude shouldering a playful angel, a work now hanging on the main level of the Musée d’Orsay. In early June, Julien de Casabianca pasted an oversize simulacrum of the figures on the wall of a nondescript building in the 18th Arrondissement. The wall just so happened to be between two food distribution businesses run by Muslim men. “I asked if it bothered him and he said no,” said de Casabianca, referring to one of the owners. “I often ask for their thoughts. It’s always a discussion. This time, one of the employees said, ‘Yeah, it’s a bit shocking.’ But then, voilà, it becomes a discussion about art. ”
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