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AFTER RAIN THE GOOD WEATHER...  By Bernard Bujold - Choose a nice afternoon to have lunch on the grass and have to share your table with the rain...  But be confident that after the rain, the good weather returns, and the rainbow!  See photo (July 30, 2020- 7 pm) 

CHRISTMAS DAY 2020 IN NOVEMBER  By Bernard Bujold - The 2020 Christmas day will arrive more than a month ahead of the usual date for half of Americans (50%).  Indeed, should Donald Trump win his second term as President of the United States on November 3, all his supporters will be happy as if they were on Christmas Day.  Of course, should Donald lose, which is very unlikely, his opponents would consider November 3rd as Christmas Day.  Santa's elves are ready and the night of November 3rd to 4th has been set aside on their agenda. According to the Elves, Donald will win by a landslide...  SEE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE 

WEARING THE MASK IN THE CITY -  By Bernard Bujold -  I don't mind wearing the mandatory mask in the city at all and, on the contrary, I like this habit, and I've liked it from the very beginning when I started wearing it last March (2020).  Since then, I've received many compliments and many people, including the beautiful cashier of the IGA, who told me that I looked like Robin Hood.  Others, older in age, call me: "HEY! LASAGNE"!  I imagine that it's in reference to this Indian revolutionary from the time of the Oka crisis that opposed the Mohawks of Kahnawake to the Quebec and then Canadian governments, during the summer of 1990 (July 11 - September 26).  Anyway, I love the mask which also offers me a certain anonymity, me who hates to be recognized in the street by some old friends (or old lovers), whom I don't really want to see again... Now I can sneak out and say: "No, I'm not the person you think you see!"  Have a good summer

MY SUMMER READING 2020  By Bernard Bujold- I have two or three passions of life including the one of Facebook!  Mark Zuckerberg started his social media site almost at the same time as I was trying my luck in the field in 2005 with the LeStudio1 project. My project did not raise beyond the level at the most of 70,000 subscribers but Mark Zuckerberg exceed today over 2,6 billion users monthly all around the world.  My summer reading for 2020 is therefore the biography by Steven Levy: FACEBOOK The Inside Story.  It is never too late to understand where our differences are and why one failed and the other succeeded...  A captivating book that I totally recommend.  SEE REVIEW 

THE SAGA OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS -  By Bernard Bujold -  Le Journal de Montréal publishes (Saturday, July 18, 2020) a description of the roles in the current saga being played at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. One must read between the lines of the text, but if one quickly understands that the Desmarais family's relationship is at the centre of the crisis, one must also understand that the real crisis is within the family.  In fact, Jacqueline Desmarais (1928-2018) had taken over from her husband, Paul Desmarais Sr. to keep the family together after his death in 2013.  Paul Desmarais Sr. (1927-2013) was a person I adored and had known him since 1984. I loved this man whom I photographed many times. I deeply miss the Patriarch and his era, the belle époque! Paul Desmarais Sr. was a great supporter of the Museum of Fine Arts.  But since Jacqueline's death, the family would be very divided, as most families are after the death of the founding parents....  As

              THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND A HISTORICAL MOMENT  By Bernard Bujold - The newspaper LE DEVOIR publishes an excellent editorial (Friday, July 17, 2020) that is a comprehensive look at the dramatic and historical situation that is currently unfolding at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the editor of the newspaper is right when he writes that "... The case could be summed up by an executive director who was leading the way against a backdrop of a toxic climate and a chairman of the board who wanted to lead the way beyond it...".  The debate is totally polarized, and while several employees seem to be on the side of the Board of Directors; the general public, the Museum's user members (subscribers) and several leaders of other museums in Quebec and France seem to be unanimous and united in their support for the fired Director, Nathalie Bondil. Several directors of the major museums in France officially take a stand in favour of Nathalie Bondil

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN 2020 By Bernard Bujold -  More and more media and Quebec personalities are calling for the resignation of the current president of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Michel de la Chenelière. For one, Monique Jérôme Forget has publicly suggested that the Chairman of the Board be replaced at the MBAM; and La Presse columnist François Cardinal is one of the many columnists calling for a change of direction on the Board of the MBAM.  According to observers, Michel de la Chenelière is a Chairman who, since his appointment, has been visiting the museum's offices every day to participate in management decisions. A Board Chair must inspire, but he is not the Director General...  Personally, I had known former president Bernard Lamarre (1931-2016). Quite the opposite of La Chenelière!  Bernard Lamarre became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1983. He supervised the Picasso exhibition in 1984,

THE 14TH OF JULY 2020  By Bernard Bujold -  Today is the 14th of July! It's a public holiday in France. This holiday was instituted in July 1880, to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.  Happy birthday friends of France!  www.LeStudio1.com

NATHALIE BONDIL AND MICHEL DE LA CHENELIÈRE  By Bernard Bujold -  The great irony of the whole situation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is that Nathalie Bondil (53 years old) is the same one who recruited the one who will destroy her career.  Nathalie had invited the actual museum president in 2012 to take an interest in the Museum, and Michel de la Chenelière (71) became its president in 2019.  De la Chenelière was born in Normandy and arrived in Quebec in 1969. He became a textbook publisher in 1984 and became wealthy when he sold his business to Transcontinental in 2008. He is also the father of theatre artist Évelyne de la Chenelière.  Nathalie Bondil's account of the dismissal is worthy of a fiction film as we discover the details of the shocking dismissal.  A former businessman (De la Chenelière), president of a major museum, who proposes to renew the contract of the star director (Nathalie Bondil) but only on condition that she fully supports his decisions, other

NATHALIE BONDIL END OF CONTRACT  By Bernard Bujold - The Board of Trustees of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has terminated the contract with Director Nathalie Bondil. The next step will have to be seen in terms of public and donor reaction. The loss of Nathalie Bondil will transform the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts into a "quidam".  In my opinion, the current Chairman of the Board will have to leave in the next few weeks, but the destruction is complete!  See text from La Presse

DONALD J. TRUMP 2020  Par Bernard Bujold - Ma pensée en ce lundi 13 juillet, 2020! Le grand jour arrive le 3 novembre 2020 (112 JOURS).  Comme l'a dit Marshall McLuhan (le grand intellectuel canadien de la communication) : "Je me trompe peut-être, mais j'en doute..."  Je suis convaincu que Donald Trump gagnera facilement contre son adversaire Joe Biden en novembre prochain ! Maintenant, comme je l'ai dit, je peux me tromper, et si c'est le cas, je vais vivre avec ma projection mais "... je ne me suis jamais trompé avant... ". - Shakespeare  Passez un bon été 2020 et amusez-vous jusqu'au 3 novembre.  VOIR PHOTOS

NATHALIE BONDIL AND THE MUSEUM - By Bernard Bujold -  The executive director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Nathalie Bondil, rejected a proposed settlement, made Friday by the museum's board of directors, as she considered it "totally unacceptable" and considers the offer to be a dismissal.  It has become a war between the chairman of the board and Nathalie.  The solution:  Option 1. The Chairman resigns and Nathalie remains in office;   Option 2. The Gallery pays the contract and immediately terminates the term with Nathalie;  Option 3: Both must leave, the president and Nathalie, because once the debate is in the public place, it's like a humiliation for the museum and generally public organization prefer to start afresh with a new president and new director. The president failed if he thought he could make Nathalie leave silently... And the Desmarais are not improving the situation. André's wife supports Nathalie Bondil and Paul Jr. III&#