Tag: Arts
“On the wire”, arts and crafts weaves its links from Dakar to Paris
Between contemporary creation and traditional methods, the exhibition “On the thread: embroidery and weaving” exposes the wealth of Senegalese know-how and the humanist values of its artistic craftsmanship. An event…
Fashion: Olivier Saillard, a trajectory as sensational as it is upward
Literature is the art that contains them all, in the sense that without it, without the writing of their history, the arts would only be an orality without reality, subject…
An auction of works belonging to Alain Delon organized in Paris
Alain Delon is parting with his collection of works of art during an exceptional auction to be held on Thursday June 22 at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, in Paris.…
“I will have the skin of things”: in Marseille, a retrospective on the atypical Louis Pons
“My house has no roof and the sky is absent” he wrote in one of the aphorisms he composed before his drawings and assemblages populated by disturbing creatures. Not really…
Manet/Degas and women, a very unique relationship
The Musée d’Orsay brings together for the first time 200 works by Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas to explore an extraordinary artistic dialogue that lasted fifteen years. A unique opportunity…
Gil Joseph Wolman, art for art’s sake in defiance of any other consideration
The situationists landed in high school, in the middle of the GA. Their leader, a tall, magnificent guy, took the floor to say that the situs supported the strike on…
“Chagall and me!” : five artists’ views on the creator of the “Biblical Message”
“Perhaps young and old will come to this House in search of an ideal of fraternity and love such as my colors and my lines have dreamed of.” On July…
Senegalese visual artist Ndoye Douts is dead
Ndoye Douts, a Senegalese visual artist, died on June 9 in Dakar, at the age of 50. The artistic community mourns this playful, generous and prolific figure. There was seriousness…
One of the toughest martial arts films was banned for almost 30 years and is being released uncut for the first time – only a few hundred exist
In the past few years have repeatedly previously banned films taken off the index. A particularly prominent example of this was Rob Zombie’s Halloween in the Director’s Cut version in…
In the shadow of the avant-gardes, the forgotten figurations of the post-war period
The notoriety of Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and his symbolist realism is well established across the Atlantic. He is the famous author of Christina’s World, star painting from 1948 kept at…