Saw couple of exhibitions : one at Theatre de la Photographie and the other at Museum of Contemporary Art, both in Nice. The photography exhibition was a french photographer Jean Ferraro. Most of his images were of artists living in the Nice region in the 70′s. There were also some male nudes: Mr Universe etc. A series of a bearded artist friend were probably my favourites, had to walk through a meeting of students/young professionals to see the work in the theatre part which was slightly embarrassing. The museum staff were somewhat hostile.

The museum of contemporary art was built by Nice’s infamous mayor. Later investigated for syphoning funds from the Opera into his bank account. A huge and rather oddly laid out exhibition space. The lower floor had some largely very bad paintings, though a couple were interesting. The centre floor had modern sculpture and mixed media. Some of this was really bad but more were of interest. I liked one of a woman with a small neon heart. There was also some scupltures by an artist who painted all his objects in a shade of deep blue. Alun Williams was probably the worst artist with all his pieces (there were many) having a large red splodge in the foreground. I liked a womans ball dress made from plastic bottles, and also behind it there was a very good painting of a woman in reddish shades. The top floor was mostly dubious also, but again a few interesting pieces were scattered in between. The roof gallery was open and had great views and was good for orientating oneself in the city.