Art: Life in Paris

Paris, the world's most powerful art magnet, is still pulling young painters and sculptors from all over the world. What do they find when they get there? To spell out the economic facts of life, Paris' art monthly L'Oeil poked into studios and galleries, combed the artists' hangouts for facts and figures. Its findings, published this month, considerably deflate the traditional happy-go-lucky view of la vie en rose.

Though the total number of artists in Paris now seems to be shrinking slightly, there are still some 30,000 of them ("As many as there are...

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