monet lived for five years at argenteuil on the river seine.inted it over and over again in all weathers and all seasons. he was becoming increasingly concerned with the problems of translating fleeting light effects into paint. but he continued to explore the many different facets of the place. [train chugs] [train whistle blows] industry itself, the cause of suburban expansion, was largely ignored or evaded, although the chimneys of a local factory made a discreet appearance. but all these landscapes show his surroundings very much in a process of change, of transformation. this went right against the conventions of contemporary french landscape painting, which presented the countryside of france as a timeless, historical world. pissarro, who was an anarchist and a socialist, was one of the few impressionists who tried to come to terms with the industrial landscape itself. by the early 1880s, in part because of commercial failure, the project of painting modern life began to be abandoned. most of the group, by now in middle age, were in retre

trash that people leave behind and driven out of their previous homes by construction work on the seinejust a few meters away, da vinci's mona lisa hangs inside the new -- the louvre, but it's not even safe inside the building. there's no doubt that at night rats nibble on objects, though they refused to comment any further. they would prefer to see rats exterminated. >> we spot more and more rats when we are out on calls. we get more and more people coming to the store who have problems with the rats. there are many titles in paris and ever more food scraps left lying around. that's the kind of thing rats love. the exterminator cannot seem to catch a break these days. he uses traps and poison to catch the rats. most of the furry pests live underground from where they slip into houses, but he knows all their tricks. >> look -- the rats can get in easily at the edge. i can almost sick my whole hand through. paris is pretty old, and there are a lot of old sellers in poor shape, so i always say that paris is as full of holes as a swiss cheese. there are lots of holes rats can use to get in

first of all we met and we were at a restaurant over the seine from the louvre.uple chapters. and we started off we thought we'd have conversations about what is a museum. and then philippe i think suggested it be more fun and fresher to just go to galleries and respond to the works as we were partners. >> that's true. because i tend to look at museums as containers of groups of arts. and the contents interested me more than the container. so we looked at art and we talked about it. we would discuss it. and the whole idea is that our reactions, our response to works of art were things that could be translated at least in part into words and conceivably helpful, useful for the reader. >> rose: did the two of you find that there's some basic difference in how you approach this or how you approach art or did you find out surprising things about each other in your reaction to art? >> we certainly have different taste, different responses to individual works of art. but on the whole, you know, there's, we did stay pretty much with very high quality works in the prado

bullard, all the respect in the world, but it's a little non-seine sickal to say you are going to have -- want interest rates to go higher, you want to raise interest rates but extend -- >> for the right reasons. market rates, market rates to go higher for the right reason. you know, how many times today i hear people say, low interest rates are really good. not if they're caused by bad reasons reasons. what do you make of the data out today, nothing about jobless claims, falling, don't care? >> you know, jobless claims is a one-way street. the lower they go, you learn nothing. go the other way, learn something. is it a bad thing, no. i thought industrial production, capacity utilization, stellar numbers. national association of home builder, 59 read last month, an outlier, really coming back in the line. nothing today, what was very negative, also wasn't top tier enough to negate the truly important aspects of yesterday's retail sales. rick's absolutely right. even one of the pieces of data cited this week for accelerating you the down side was retail sales. everybody said it was weak