“For a long time, I didn’t feel like I fit into certain narratives of history, but after a while, I started understanding why so many artists came to Monmarte. It’s very inspiring as a space and the energy is very pure,” said artist Ludovic Nkoth from a studio he’d rented for the summer in Paris.
The city was in the middle of a heatwave and Nkoth, who is typically based in New York, had just run out to buy a fan, but his spirits were high. He’d just completed a 10-month residency at Académie des Beaux-Art and…
