Charles Jaigu: "The mayor of Paris, Jeff Koons and the tourist"

"I'm a leftist reaction!" Says Yves Michaud. This chimerical species has more and more grumpy members. Take Régis Debray, reac from the first left, or Jacques Julliard, reac from the second left. Reactions are defined by a certain degree of resistance to present or future times, and Yves Michaud brings his share to these “montontemporary” struggles by tackling two phenomena that are very much of our time: the role of contemporary art in the world cities, and the systematic touristification of these.

Michaud, who directed the École des Beaux-Arts for ten years, has a keen eye and a taste for clear ideas: he therefore writes a little book of humor that combines brevity, corrosive humor, and questionable subjectivity specific to these materials of taste and colors. Luckily, his small book falls in the middle of the Parisian municipal campaign. A campaign where the zero degree of imagination, slogan and envy reigns. A campaign that has been taken

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