Tag: Arts
Beya Gille Gacha, a Bamileke pearl
It’s a pearl. An artist who, in her work, combines African and European refinement. Moreover, the pearl speaks. She speaks of mixed-race art, not false, since we owe it to…
The exhibition to see: Matisse and “Les Cahiers d’art”, the turn of the 1930s
“In front of the canvas, I have no idea”, wrote Henri Matisse on November 21, 1929, a few weeks before his sixtieth birthday. His paintings then translate his difficulty and…
The Indian painter SH Raza, a great master of modern art
Sayed Haider Raza (1922-2016) was part of the School of Paris and lived in France for a long time. In India, he is recognized as one of the greatest modern…
Episode 2 – Basquiat and the Black Kings of America
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa The only black to break into the very white and closed world of contemporary New York art, Jean-Michel Basquiat decides in many…
Episode 3 – Basquiat’s trip to Africa
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa In 1986, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat finally had the opportunity to travel to Africa. His dealer is organizing an exhibition for him…
Episode 4 – Paris-Abidjan, the Basquiat footprint
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa After Abidjan, it was in Paris in 1988 that Jean-Michel Basquiat met the Ivorians Auguste Mimi Errol and Ouattara Watts, then living…
Episode 5 – At Basquiat’s School
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa What echo do the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat arouse among future artists who study at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan?…
Episode 1 – Basquiat, the childhood of a painter
/ Podcasts / Basquiat, a ticket to Africa To probe Jean-Michel Basquiat’s relations with the African continent, let’s first go back to the artist’s trajectory: a return to his New…
The MUYA association for the preservation of traditional Ethiopian know-how
/ Podcasts / Live elsewhere The French tax impatriation regime was created in 2004 and applies to French expatriates returning to France. This system allows these impatriates to benefit from…
The exhibition to see: Ferdinand Hodler and Valentine, death at work
“Death has the beauty of truth. It is death, it is its greatness, that I see through those traits that were lovable, loved, adored, and that it invades”, wrote Ferdinand…