Nr°12 Image of the day

Louvre-Lens, this means the famous Louvre museum in a tiny, (in)dusty little town called Lens. We visited this new born yesterday with the kids Iman and Maui.
So, the image of the day needed to be our son, posing in front of the museum, in the pouring rain....

The museum 'satellite' is been open for a few days (December 12th 2012), and The inhabitants of Lens don't have a clue what is happening lately: 'bus loads' of people landing in their village, looking for that brand new, all ready famous museum by the Japanese architects SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa based in Tokyo (SANAA associated with architects Imrey-Culbert (New York) and landscape architect Catherine Mosbach (Paris)).
SANAA is a Japanese architectural company, noted for their ethereal designs. 
The size? 28,000 square meters of usable space built on two levels, with semi-permanent exhibition space covering at least 6000 m².
Top pieces? Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People as the star exhibit in the first tranche of paintings on view, And leonardo's The Virgin and Child with St Anne in this first temporary exhibition.

More images: as the exhibit was so crowdy, the weather so shity, we didn't make that much pictures. We go back this summer, when the first hype is over, the sun sets the architecture back in value and the green landscape architecture is more finished...

Here are some of the rainy, crowded pictures, as an appetizer...