The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden in household objects. Whether posing with angel wings or swallowed by a giant Muppet-like coat, the late artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019) has long been a patron saint of the unabashedly eccentric. A master of self-invention, she crafted a persona as singular as those she shot for the screen. Fittingly, “Agnès Varda’s Paris, from here to there,” on view at the Musée Carnavalet till August 24, plumbs Varda’s enduring fascination with performance. What the show implicitly celebrates is not only how Paris influenced a 20th-century icon of film, but how queer culture and merriment played a critical, if often overlooked, role in the artistic communities that brought the very concept of “Gay Paree” to life. Read the full review by lipsmarts at the link in bio. . . . Collier Schorr’s photo of Agnès Varda in the courtyard of Rue Daguerre, Paris 14th ward, in a session for Intervie...