Irreconcilable Differences

Sadly, today for the first time ever, I finally understood the meaning of the expression "irreconcilable differences". It dawned on me that no matter how connected and well surrounded, we are all looking at a different picture. No one can really see inside your view. sometimes it is translatable, others,  not. Like idioms in a foreign language. Sometimes seeing the others' perspective just  isn't enough. You just don't. get. it! Like not getting modern art, while loving contemporary.

Speaking of art and irreconcilable differences, it brings me to my relationship with my country of origin, its government and the expo now running at the Centre Pompidou till July 19. Entitled The Promises of the past: 1950-2010, A discontinuous history of art in former Eastern Europe.
"Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the exhibition looks at Europe's former East/West divide, and challenges the idea of art history as something linear and continuous.
The Centre Pompidou thus aims to introduce the public to artists whose creations and subject matters have marked their countries of origin, and to explain the salient influence of certain tutelary figures of Central and Eastern Europe on the younger generation of international artists."

I might not make it to Paris on time for this one, but I hope some of you will. This might turn out to be a perfect example of how the French intellos glamorize Socialism, or perhaps just an accurate account of a lost generation. I would love to see it!

http://www.centrepompidou.fr

Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris, France
01 44 78 12 33