Tag: Arts
Sarcophagi discovered at Notre-Dame: “A very informative excavation”
/ Podcasts / Guest France By : Clementine Pawlotsky The preventive excavations which began after the fire which ravaged part of Notre-Dame de Paris in April 2019 made it possible…
Record year for auctions on the art market
2022 will have been the year of auction records on the art market. Three of the world’s largest auction houses published excellent results, which might come as a surprise given…
“Timeless manifesto of the arts of prehistory”, by Pascal Picq
The France book of the week deserves its place under the tree. the Timeless manifesto of the arts of prehistory is interested in all that has been created beautiful by…
Kehinde Wiley gives new colors to the black model
As an extension of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition, organized at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini during the 59th Venice Biennale, the Musée d’Orsay presents until January 8, 2023, within its huge…
Germany officially returns Benin Kingdom bronzes to Nigeria
The German Foreign Minister, visiting Nigeria since Sunday, returned this Tuesday, December 20, 22 bronzes looted in the former kingdom of Benin. These artifacts are among some 1,130 items that…
Germany returns 20 bronzes to Nigeria
The German Foreign Minister is visiting Nigeria where she will personally return twenty works of art looted from the former kingdom of Benin, the current city of Benin City, in…
Laurentine Périlhou, macrame and her inexhaustible manual know-how
Laurentine Périlhou develops creations with patience and passion, without needles, hooks or looms, only her hand shapes the knots that give birth to her creations. She perfectly masters the macrame…
Unclassifiable, collective creations come out of the woodwork at the Mucem
They remain almost invisible on the art market and difficult to classify in one category or another. They do exist, however, these collective creations born of friendship, fortuitous or deliberate…
Myriam Mihindou, the sculpted body
Myriam Mihindou calls herself a sculptor at heart. And the body of this visual artist is no stranger to it. A body working to give birth to itself and its…
In the second part of his trilogy, Rocío Molina explores the purity of flamenco
Rocío Molina, flamenco dance prodigy, presented the second part of his trilogy at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, as part of a long tour until the end of…