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Le Institut du Monde Arabe is another extraordinary museum in Paris, starting with the gorgeous building by super-hot architect Jean Nouvel.
The collection is small-ish but beautifully and eccentrically displayed.
Contemporary stuff (“Zikr” by Etel Adnan, below) mixed in with antiquity.
Commissioned work by Rodolphe Hammadi, including “Capitaine Achab”:
And the building is curious and quirky and geometric.
The elevators have Egyptian figures stencilled on them.
another eye opens 
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