Tag: Arts
Brigitte Bardot, Che, Napoleon… The exhibition that questions our icons – L’Express
What connects Christ to Che, Joan of Arc to Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon to Diego Maradona…? Their iconic status, responds the Image Museum of Epinal (Vosges), which has looked at the…
Rakajoo, between brushes and uppercuts
Baye-Dam Cissé, better known under the pseudonym Rakajoo, alternates between punches and brushstrokes. While he has just closed his first personal exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, this self-taught half-boxer,…
the black faces of Ukraine – L’Express
In Donbass, which is home to the largest coal basin in Ukraine with 90% of the country’s coal reserves spread over 60,000 square kilometers, the town of Vouhledar, about fifty…
At the Kunstmuseum in Basel, an exhibition dedicated to “women of genius” – L’Express
“Daughter of”, “wife of” or “sister of”. It is often thanks to their close male entourage that women artists were able to stand out at a time when access to…
Featherwork, from craftsmanship to art, by Julien Vermeulen and his House
Julien Vermeulen is a feather maker. He wants to be the guardian of a heritage that he likes to develop and pass on. Maison Vermeulen innovates in the art of…
Pinball machines, table football, video games… Monnaie de Paris is transformed into an arcade room – L’Express
Their golden age stretched over three decades, from the end of 1960 to the end of 1990. But, from the 1950s, coin-operated automatic games appeared in cafes. The operators then…
the world of entertainment targeted by numerous restrictions on freedom
In Nicaragua, the presidential couple continues their operation to restrict freedoms. Daniel Ortega and his wife, vice-president Rosario Murillo, are passing numerous laws aimed at increasingly establishing their control over…
The increasingly immaterial art market is seeing a rise in the power of female artists
In 2023, auction sales of works of art worldwide reached $14.9 billion, a drop of 14% compared to 2022. The results of the annual report of the company Artprice, published…
in the Bérurier noir archives at the BnF – L’Express
These are the first archives of the French punk movement to integrate the funds of a public institution. In 2021, two ex-Bérurier noir, the singer Fanfan, also known as FanXoa…
“Étienne Dinet”, when art brings France and Algeria together
With his luminous and moving paintings, populated by charmers, dancers, merchants, talkers, lovers, muezzins in the Algerian oases, the French painter Étienne Dinet (1861-1929) managed to seduce and fascinate both…