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Happy Birthday Mr. Strummer!

Today marks the 60th birthday of Joe Strummer.  60.  This past weekend was also the Annual ‘Strummer of Love Festival’ coordinated by his lovely daughters in Somerset, England.  I’m thinking next year possibly hitting it up for my 40th birthday.  http://www.strummeroflove.com/

I have a funny relationship with The Clash.  I liked them as a teen but didn’t get really into them until my early 20’s.  I remember having a crush on a boy in highshcool that used to make tapes for me which always had ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go?’ on them.

A few years ago, my friend A reintroduced me to them and again it was a love affair.  Time passed and again, The Clash got shelved for some new music of the moment.  Then recently another chap sent me home with another bagful of Clash books, DVD’s and the like.  The Clash on the brain much?  I need to stay away from boys who like The Clash methinks.

I’ve liked many a band growing up.  In a way I sometimes think I have music adhd.  But whenever my iPod and mood find myself coming back to ‘Combat Rock’ and ‘London Calling’ – I feel so happy.  The music instantly takes back to my teen years when it was all about spinning vinyl on the crappy record player in my bedroom and forgetting about homework for hours on end.

Last week I received a fresh paperback copy of The Clash with a lovely hot pink cover.  It tells the unique story of the Clash, by the Clash. The Clash was a band like no other. Pioneers of British punk rock, their incendiary gigs, intelligent song writing, definitive style and passionate idealism caught the spirit of the times and made them a worldwide phenomenon. Rolling Stone magazine declared London Calling one of the greatest albums of all time, their autobiographical documentary Westway to the World won a Grammy, and their music lives on, influencing emerging bands and exciting new audiences today.

This is the first official book to be created by the band. With unprecedented access to the Clash archive, this landmark publication brings together previously unseen material–including tour posters, artwork, and photos of the band at home, on stage, in the studio and on the road–with each member telling it like it was, in their own words.

Trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries: their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have an opinion about what made them who they were – this book gives the chance to read the full story, from all four band members themselves.

What I appreciated about this book is that it gives small bit size pieces on each of the lad’s stories at certain times in their musical history.  Paul Simonon is my favourite but between him and Mick Jones they kept me giggling throughout this compact pocket edition.

Initially when this book came out in hard cover I thought ‘how am I going to read this book tucked up in bed?’  It’s an easy read and so unlike in the long windedness of ‘Redemption Song:  The Ballad of Joe Strummer’.

There are so many good bits to the book:  the disco graphic snapshot retrospective, global historical tour dates, film information highlights and fantastic vintage pictures of the band.

Ah yes, not only is the book a good chuckle but reading it will bring you closer to the band.  It’s pretty emotional at times – be prepared.

I have an extra fresh copy of The Clash book to giveaway to one of my lucky readers.  Thank you to Chapters Indigo!  All you need to do is sign up to my blog and you will be entered for a chance to win it.  The deadline for entries is August 31, 2012.

Lastly, Happy Birthday to my fellow Leo, Mr. Strummer!  Wherever you are in the heavens…we miss you.

Book Report: ‘Please Look After Mom’ Written by Kyung-Sook Shin

'Please Look After Mom' Written by Kyung-Sook Shin

'Please Look After Mom' Written by Kyung-Sook Shin

‘Please Look After Mom’

Written by Kyung-Sook Shin

It’s very rare that I read a book and feel so utterly moved that I take moments out of my reading and think about what emotions and memories they evoke for me from my own past.

I had an emotional reaction whilst reading ‘Please Look After Mom’.  It made me think of my relationship with my own mom.  Those early years as a rambunctious teen with a whole lot of mod attitude and giving her the hardest trailblazing time.  Hey, I was the first born and I wanted my fun and fought for it.

‘Please Look After Mom’ tells the story of a family’s search for their missing mother — and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harboured within.

When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt. As they argue over the “Missing” flyers they are posting throughout the city — how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text — they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom?

Told by the alternating voices of Mom’s daughter, son, her husband and, in the shattering conclusion, by Mom herself, the novel pieces together, Rashomon-style, a life that appears ordinary but is anything but.

This is a mystery of one mother that reveals itself to be the mystery of all our mothers: about her triumphs and disappointments and about who she is on her own terms, separate from who she is to her family.

Getting back to my teen years – some battles I won.  Some I lost.  But all these years later I see how those battles and wins shaped me similarly to what the characters in the book experienced.  I only have my mom to thank for that.  My love of music, art, travel, drive, emotion and sometimes brassiness – all comes from her.  Her sacrifice – always endless.  Even today.

‘Please Look After Mom’ reminded me of everything my mom has done for me, given me, cooked for me, fought for me and cherished for me.  There were moments I actually wept because of the pure beauty in the words, language, tone and sentiment of this book.  In a way it kinda changed my life.  I know – it’s cheesy to say.  But it’s true. 

There was a moment in the last few month’s where I actually thanked my mom for something she did for me as a teen.  This is something let’s say we don’t really do in my culture.  Now I said it over the phone (small steps) – but I’m glad I told her. 

Thank you to Lindsey at Random House – I have a free copy of ‘Please Look After Mom’ up for grabs.  Sign up to my blog and you could win yourself this lovely work.  If you are already subscribed consider yourself already entered.  Contest Closes on May 12, 2012.

If you don’t win it, pick up a copy for your Mum’s for Mother’s Day and remember her to thank her in your own special way.

Best of Luck! 

Mel ;) xo

20th Anniversary of Nevermind and Bloodsugarsexmagik

I was 18 when both Nevermind and Bloodsugarsexmagik was released 20 years ago yesterday in fact.  They are just two of the handful of albums and bands that were around at the time that funnelled my love of music.  I don’t know if I’d be the person I am today without these albums.

They got me listening to the Pixies, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, The Smiths, Joy Division, Soundgarden whilst catching these bands and others in concert.  Which in turn tuned me onto the power of live music and how instrumental it is to my self-care today as an adult.

This music also gave me relationship and friendship connections. Some were amazing whilst others ended as time passed and we grew up.  Loads of life learning came from that which music that had nothing at all to do with.

Sure, these days I am obsessed with bands like Sleigh Bells, Cold War Kids, Phantogram, Beirut, Arcade Fire and I may not listen to Nirvana and RHCP as much as I used too in my daily rotation of music offerings.  But they will always have a special place in my heart.

Mel xo

The Toronto Star: Target plans up to 135 Canadian stores by 2013

By Dana Flavelle |                 Fri Sep 23 2011

Toronto will be the first Canadian city to get a Target store when the hotly anticipated purveyor of cheap chic merchandise starts opening its first non-U.S. stores in March 2013, the company says.

Just where it might be located remains to be seen. Perhaps in one of the six Zellers locations in Toronto the retailer announced last May? Or in the Stockyards, a new development under construction at the corner of St. Clair Ave. W. and Weston Rd.

The retailer isn’t saying.

However, Target did shed more light on its plans for Canada on Friday.

Dubbed Tar-zhay by its legion of fans, the U.S.-based retailer said it plans to open up to 135 stores in 2013, including 134 in Zellers locations across the country and one in a vacant Walmart in Niagara Falls.

Target also said the stores, which carry mainly general merchandise, would sell food under an agreement it has signed with Sobeys Inc., the country’s second largest supermarket chain.

For now, the deal with Sobeys includes frozen, dairy and dry goods, but the retailer isn’t ruling out a wider assortment in future. In the U.S., Target has begun adding fresh produce and meat, making it more of a full-service grocer.

In a separate but related announcement, Walmart Canada Corp. released a list of the 39 Zellers stores it plans to convert to Walmart’s by the end of next year.

They include three Zellers stores in Toronto, one each in Gerrard Square, Sheridan Mall and Cedarbrae Mall.

Target’s entry into Canada is expected to be a game-changing event for the Canadian retail industry.

With its powerful marketing muscle and reputation for cheap-chic, reinforced by high-profile designer events, such as the Missoni collection that crashed its website last week, Target is expected to take a big bite out of the Canadian retail landscape.

The retailer, a major competitor to Wal-Mart south of the border, announced in January it would make a bold move into Canada, its first foray outside the U.S., by buying the leasehold rights to up to 220 Zellers locations for $1.825 billion.

But after reviewing the sites, it has chosen to take up the leasehold rights on just 134 Zellers’ stores. It announced the locations of the first 105 in May.

On Friday, it said it had taken up another 84 leaseholds, but only 29 would be converted to Targets. The additional 84 Zellers’ sites include 36 in Ontario. It declined to say which of those locations would become Targets.

The retailer, whose arrival is expected to dramatically change the Canadian retail landscape, said this completes its real estate transaction with Zellers.

However, it plans to build some stores from scratch, including one at St. Clair Ave. W. and Weston Rd. and is also taking over a vacant Walmart store in Niagara Falls.

Target plans to spend $10-$11 million converting each Zellers’ location. It’s already begun hiring in Canada.

In a separate release, Zellers said it will prepare its associates for the tens of thousands of jobs that will be created by Target and other retailers through a comprehensive career transition program which includes working closely with prospective employers.

Target will provide Zellers with a minimum six months notice of any planned store closure, with most stores receiving nine months notice. For the balance of 2011 and into 2012 Zellers customers will continue to be able to enjoy shopping at all of its locations across the country.

The remaining 84 Zellers stores that are not part of the Target transaction will continue to operate while the company reviews its options for these locations.

List of Target’s second and final selection of 84 additional Zellers leases

Includes potential Target stores and leases sold to other retailers or back to landlords

Alberta (8)

Calgary, AB – Deer Valley Shopping Centre

Edmonton, AB – Abbottsfield Shoppers Mall, Meadowlark Shopping Centre, Northgate Centre, South Park Centre, West Edmonton Mall

Westmount Shopping Centre

Medicine Hat, AB – Medicine Hat Mall

British Columbia (11)

Burnaby, BC – Brentwood Mall

Dawson Creek, BC – Dawson Mall

Kamloops, BC – Sahali Centre Mall

Kelowna, BC – Orchard Park Plaza

Penticton, BC – Penticton Power Centre

Prince Rupert, BC – Rupert Square

Richmond, BC – Landsdowne Centre

Salmon Arm, BC – Piccadilly Place Mall

Surrey, BC – Surrey Place/Central City

Vancouver, BC – Lynn Valley Centre

Victoria, BC – Hillside Shopping Centre

New Brunswick (3)

Fredericton, NB – Uptown Centre

Moncton, NB – Northwest Centre

Saint John, NB – Lancaster Mall

Newfoundland and Labrador (1)

St. John’s, NL – Zellers Plaza

Nova Scotia (6)

Amherst, NS – Amherst Centre

Dartmouth, NS – Colby Village Plaza

Greenwood, NS – Zellers Plaza

Halifax, NS – Bayers Lake Power Centre

North Sydney, NS – North Sydney Mall

Sydney, NS – Sydney Shopping Centre

Ontario (36)

Ancaster, ON – Meadowland Power Centre

Bowmanville, ON – Clarington Town Centre

Brantford, ON- Brantford Centre

Chatham, ON – Thames-Lea Plaza

Georgetown, ON – Georgetown Market

Gloucester, ON – Gloucester Centre

Hamilton, ON – County Fair Plaza

Hawkesbury, ON – Hawkesbury Gateway Shopping Centre

Kitchener, ON- Laurentian Power Centre,- Stanley Park Mall

Listowel, ON – Listowel Carriage Shopping Centre

London, ON – Northland Mall

Mississauga, ON – Sheridan Mall, Westdale Mall

Newmarket, ON – 404 Town Centre

North York, ON – Lawrence Square, Sheridan Mall North York

Oakville, ON – Hopedale Mall

Oshawa, ON – Kingsway Village, Oshawa Centre

Ottawa, ON- Heritage Place

Peterborough, ON – Parkway Centre

Pickering, ON – Pickering Town Centre

Scarborough, ON – Warden & Eglinton, Cedarbrae Mall

293 Bay St., Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Station Mall

285 Geneva St., St. Catharines, ON – Fairview Mall

640 Queenston Road, Stoney Creek, ON – Queenston Place

1020 Dawson Road, Thunder Bay, ON – County Fair Plaza

1101 West Arthur St., Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Mall

170 Broadway, Tillsonburg, ON – Tillsonburg Town Centre

1000 Gerrart St., Toronto, ON – Gerrard Square

2290 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON – Southside/Pond Mills Shopping Centre

70 Bridgeport Road, Waterloo, ON – Zellers Centre

800 Niagara St. N., Welland, ON – Seaway Mall

1550 Huron Church Road, Windsor, ON – Ambassador Plaza

Quebec (16)

600 boul. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Beloeil, QC – Montenach Mall

7200 boul. Taschereau (Local 21), Brossard, QC – Place Portabello

1324 boul. Talbot, Chicoutimi, QC – Place De Saguenay

920 boul. Maloney, Gatineau, QC – Les Galeries Gatineau

1055 boul. Firestone, Joliette, QC – Les Galeries Joliette

161 Route 230 Ouest, Bureau 400, La Pocatière, QC – Les Galeries De La Pocatière

2877 chemin Chambly, Longueuil, QC – Place Desormeaux

1700 rue Sherbrooke, Magog, QC – Les Galeries Orford

3121 rue Granby, Montreal, QC – Centre Commercial Domaine

7275 rue Sherbrooke Est., Montreal, QC – Place Versailles Shopping Centre

6700 chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, QC – Plaza Côte Des Neiges

101 boul. Cardinal-Léger, # 74, Pincourt, QC – Le Faubourg De l’Île’

12655 rue Sherbrooke Est., Point-aux-Trembles, QC – Carrefour De La Pointe

940 13e Ave. Nord, Sherbrooke, QC – Galeries Quatres Saisons

450 boul. Poliquin, Sorel, QC – Les Promenades De Sorel

450 boul. Arthur Sauvé, St. Eustache, QC – Carrefour St-Eustache

Saskatchewan (3)

134 Primrose Drive, Saskatoon, SK – The Mall at Lawson Heights

2325 Preston Ave., Saskatoon, SK – Market Mall

255-277 Broadway St. E., Yorkton, SK – Parkland Mall

Location of former Walmart site acquired by Target

7190 Morrison St., Niagara Falls, ON

CBC: Polaris Prize Contest

So the lovely folks at the CBC are having a contest to win 5 sets of the Canadian albums up for the Polaris Music prize. I want to win this puppy so badly.  Here’s the entry requirements and my entry.  ;)

As per http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/thesignal/2011/08/22/polaris-contest-isnt-it-time-you-won-something/#socialcomments:

Wanna win something good? How about a collection of the ten Canadian albums that are vying for the Polaris Music Prize? We’re giving away five sets of albums to five lucky Signal listeners. You’re probably wondering how youcan be one of those lucky five listeners, right? Glad you asked! Just post a comment on our blog telling us about the things you’ve won in the past. Bowling trophy? Trip for 2 around the world?  Participant ribbon?  Free can of Spam?  Or maybe you’ve never won anything in your life — we don’t care! We just want to hear a story about you and Lady Luck.

The Polaris Prize is being handed out on September 19th and that’s when our contest closes.  So hit the comment button, log in and tell us your winning history.

My entry:

I was a music junkie even as a teen and in fact never have been quite lucky.  But when I was 15 I used to listen to 640 The Hog (remember that station…ugh?) when I came home from high school to get me jazzed to start my homework.  One night they were giving away a Turbo Grafx video game machine (http://www.amazon.com/Turbo-Grafx-16-System-Console-TurboGrafx/dp/B001AAAVPI/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1315358043&sr=1-2) but you could only win it if you had a parent answer some questions about you.

Ok in that moment I thought – hey, I can do this!  I can trick out my room with this new system.  So I run down the stairs and tell my dad to come on the phone as the dj would have some questions for him if I was successful.  As luck would have it…the dj comes on the phone and asks to speak to my very traditional Indian dad.  My dad has a thick Indian accent and misunderstood the dj’s questions.  Typical.  He thought the dj said something different and went on a rant about what a troubled teen I was.  Embarrassing as I wasn’t….my dad was just hamming it up for the radio.  Great!  Backfire!  The dj was dying laughing and so were my classmates who just ‘happened’ to be all listening.  I paid double the price for this win the following day at school.

Long story short – I won the Turbo Grafx and had to go and pick it up from Q107 with my dad the following week.  My dad was such a good sport but man you would have thought we were going to the CBC. ;)   He got all dressed up and then there was me in my Catholic high school uniform to pick up a video game machine.   I honestly only the used machine once and it ended up with the dust bunnies under my bed in my old bedroom at my parents place.  Good times!

I guess it was all about the journey with that win.  I remember the story more so than I do the actual prize.
Lastly, may I please win the Polaris Music Prize five set of albums?  It would get a good home and also replace the previous story of a win that I can now tell my dad and perhaps enlighten him on my latest prize win 15 years later.  ;)   I’m sure he’d get a kick out of it that his effort eventually got me what I really wanted in the end.

Fingers crossed and please may I win CBC?,

Mel

Lunch Time Poll: Do I keep this Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag or return it to Winners? ;)

Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag

Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag

This always happens to me.  I get hit by the bag mafia at Winners.

So I was at my local Winners at Cloverdale Mall looking for a cool designer bag for Fritz’s b-day.  Of course I’m looking for her and I find something for myself which I’m not entirely sure if I need. ;)

What did I find?  Oh just Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag in RED number.  Its sold out everywhere and it was in the Clearance section!  I was surprised that it hadn’t been scooped up already!   This happened to me in Chicago at Loehmann’s years ago when I found an apple green Cynthia Rowley bag in a clearance aisle for $75 reduced from $300.

The Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag was reduced from $198 to $120

Retail Price: USD198
Price: RM830
Colour: Black, Red, White

Features
Calvin Klein quilts the posh drawstring purse
in luxe lamb leather for a chic go-anywhere effect.

  • Calvin Klein bag
  • Lamb leather; lining: cotton
  • Shoulder strap with 8-1/2″ drop
  • Drawstring closure
  • Diamond quilting throughout; silvertone hardware includes grommets and logo
    plaque
  • Interior features cotton twill lining, zip pocket and 2 open pockets
  • 16″ W x 12″ H x 7″ D

Um..yeah.  See what I’m dealing with?  See what us girls go through?  Thank god I don’t have children.

My question is, do I keep this? Look I have a chest full of bags but yes indeed this bag is hot and reminds me of a more affordable red Chanel quilted bag.

Will I use it?  Sure.  ;)   I can rationalize anything.

Do I love it?  Sure.  ;)

Is it useful? Sure.  ;)

Is it a good deal?  Sure.  But just because its a good deal it doesn’t mean I have to keep it.

Is a  Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag in lambskin worth $120?  Hmmmm……

As an aside, while I was trolling through the bag racks for close to an hour and a half at the Winners in Cloverdale I stalked  2 Hillary Radley bags, 1 Tommy Hilfiger, 1 Furla and 1 Nine West.  None of them matched up to the Sisley Bag that I ended up finding and buying for Fritz for her bday.  I’m seeing her tonight so pix will follow.  It’s a creme bag with snake skin trim on the opening of the bag.  It’s pretty but not too much I guarantee you.  You can use it as an arm bag or a cross body.  The cross bag handle in the bag is also snake skin.  It was quite the score as Sisley bags are pretty expensive and the coolest thing was that there was just one left!

The Winners in Cloverdale is a goldmine.  I bought Rayban’s from there in the early summer for a fraction of what they go far in the boutique stores.  I was never a huge fan of Winners before but these days especially the Cloverdale Mall location is really bringing their game.  ;)

Is it worth $120?  What do you think?  I have to make a decision by next Wednesday.  For now the Calvin Klein Chelsea Drawstring Bag is sitting in my hallway.  Staring at me as I type this.

Do the poll below please!!

Yours in fashion,

Mel xo

Subscribe to Thirty Four Flavours and Get a Pressie From Me! ;)

A present from me to say thank you for subscribing to my blog!  ;)

A present from me to say thank you for subscribing to my blog! ;)

The holidays are coming up and for those faithful followers to my blog, I would like to post out a sweet gift as a thank you in December!

If your a fan of my blog and already subscribed…Thank you!  Expect a gift in the post! Just e-mail me your mailing address by making a comment on any of my posts.  Better yet e-mail me at thirtyfourflavours@gmail.com

For those yet to subscribe – please do! I’d love to have you on board!

Yours in fashion,

Mel xo

Chagall at the AGO

Chagall

Chagall

When I was in Nice, France last Fall – I stumbled upon the Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall (Marc Chagall Museum of Biblical Themes).  It was a raining and one of the last days I had left in France so I wanted to make the most of it.  I had just been to the Musee des Beauxs-Arts de Nice.   There was a lot of walking and a bus trip into the mountains to the Musee Matisse.  The Matisse Museum was a tad uneventful.  I remember waiting for the bus to go back down the mountain and decided I’d just walk the windy road down.  The rain had stopped and I enjoyed peeking into people’s private gardens.

As I walked, I remember passing the Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall and thought I’d check it out if I happened to hit it. 

Have life events brought you to your knees when you were least expecting them?  Yep – that’s what the Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall did to me that day.

Chagall

Chagall

It was gorgeous, beautiful, spiritual and full of so much warmth.

It stood out among Nice France museums as one of the most interesting on the French Riviera. It contains seventeen superbly displayed large canvases depicting biblical scenes and themes from the Old Testament in bright, joyous colors. The Chagall Museum also holds sculptures, stained glass windows, mosaics, tapestries, preparatory sketches, engravings, and lithographs from this important 20th-century artist. If you are looking for things to do in Nice the museum is an excellent option. It is on the Boulevard de Cimiez about two miles from the Nice beaches.

Marc Chagall was born in 1887 into a close-knit Jewish family in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. He moved to France before the Russian Revolution to be a part of the Paris art scene and went on to become a celebrated French citizen. Chagall paintings in museums around the world often depict biblical scenes or scenes of Belarusian folklore. Many Chagall paintings in museums are deep in spiritual meaning and metaphors influenced by his Jewish upbringing and his sympathy for the Christian message. The Chagall Museum Nice was a natural offshoot of the universal themes found in other Chagall paintings in museums.

Chagall

Chagall

Of any Nice France museum, the Chagall Museum has the most harmony between the building and its collection. The rooms are light, white, and cool, with large windows providing a perfect backdrop of outdoor greenery to the bright pinks and reds of the canvases. Chagall himself designed a stained-glass window for the museum and contributed a mosaic. Chagall was a great lover of music, and the building at times echoes the grandeur of an auditorium.

The seventeen vast paintings in the Chagall Museum Nice are arranged into two groups. The first twelve paintings constitute a cycle, each drawing as its subject a narrative episode recited in the Old Testament. The other five paintings illustrate the Song of Songs, not as a homogeneous series, but as five variations on the same theme—love. The artist said of the Chagall Museum Nice that he hoped people would leave having “found a certain peace, a certain religiosity, a feeling of life” and that after seeing the work, viewers would “hear their music and their poetry guided by the heart.”

Chagall helped open the museum in 1973 and was active in the museum’s life in its early years. Since the death of the painter in 1985, the Chagall Museum Nice has continued to carry the artist’s message of universality through special exhibits and by publishing books about Chagall.

Chagall

Chagall

Entrance to the Chagall Museum Nice is about $8 to $10 depending on the current exchange rate (less for people aged 18 to 25); entrance to both the permanent and temporary exhibits is a few dollars more. The Chagall Museum is free for those under 18 at all times and for everybody on the first Sunday of every month. Open Wednesday to Monday 10 to 6.

Lastly, I spent way too much money in the gift shop – something I rarely do.  The art spoke to me.  It was romantic, sweet, painful and full of so much love.  It was funny at the time I thought I was holding a love in my hands that was growing like a lil seedling.  It was so long ago.  I wish I could have told that girl then that it wasn’t to be.  But at the same time if I didn’t feel it so intensely perhaps Chagall’s art would have spoken to me in a slightly different way.

And now you can see his work at the AGO in Toronto until Jan /12.

Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde – Arts, Visual… – Toronto.com.