With most museums closed in France due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a new exhibit has opened in Cannes that guarantees any visitors will be wearing masks scuba masks.
Jason deCaires Taylor is known for creating underwater museums that feature fascinating sculpture collections - and the latest is his first in the Mediterranean Sea.
March 8, 2021
ROCKY MOUNT, Va. One sunny day last spring, Bridgette Craighead was dancing the Electric Slide with three police officers in the grass next to the farmers’ market. It was the first Black Lives Matter protest this rural Virginia county had ever had, and Craighead, a 29-year-old hairdresser, had organized it.
She had not known what to expect. But when the officers arrived, they were friendly. They held her signs high, and stood next to her, smiling. Later an officer brought pizzas and McDonald’s Happy Meals. They even politely ignored her cousin’s expired license plate.
This, she thought, was the best of America. Police officers and Black Lives Matter activists laughing and dancing together. They were proving that, in some small way, their Southern county with its painful past was changing. They had gotten beyond the racist ways of older people. This made her feel proud. In a photograph from that day, Sgt. Thomas Robertson is smiling, and Craighead is standing
He s the sculptor whose work gives you a certain sinking feeling.
Jason deCaires Taylor is known for creating underwater museums that feature fascinating sculpture collections. He s created aquatic sculpture gardens in locations such as Mexico, Grenada, the Bahamas, Lanzarote, the Maldives - though this one was partially destroyed after it was deemed offensive - Norway and Australia.
And there s no let up. The British artist has now rustled up an underwater museum off the coast of Cannes - his first installation in the Mediterranean Sea.
Two of the sculptures that are part of a new underwater museum off the coast of Cannes created by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor