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Au Revoir, Souris: Bono, Pharrell, Laurie Anderson Memorialize An Art Giant's Cat

French artist Sophie Calle's cat died in 2014. To mourn him, Calle asked dozens of musicians — including Michael Stipe, The National and Jarvis Cocker — to memorialize him.
Sophie Calle, at a private concert by Pharrell Williams in Paris on May 26, 2014. Pharrell contributed to the album <em>Souris Calle</em>, in tribute to Sophie Calle's dead cat.

When the French artist Sophie Calle in April 2017, she appeared to be pregnant. Calle was 63 then, and the writer, Mary Kaye Schilling, admitted to being surprised at the sight of the artist's swollen belly. A pregnancy would have been more than possible, as an Indian woman a year before Schilling showed up on Calle's doorstep. As it turned

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