AN ART SCENE far and away from the one in the Marais (both in distance and substance) is unfolding in the twentieth arrondissement, in working-class Belleville, amid the residential town houses, elementary schools, and cafe?s bordering the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, a Wordsworth poem come to sprawling life. Belleville has long attracted an arty set, but in the last decade there’s been a deliberate attempt to establish a community away from the shiny, commercial, would-you-like-a-Warhol-print-with-your-new-pair-of-shoes, sir, Marais, where, I was told, any sense of solidarity between galleries has been lost.
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