Tag: Cultural meeting
Release concert of the album “Psyché” by Ambroisine Bré
Cultural meeting Rising star of opera, French mezzo-soprano Ambroisine Bré, 33, makes her debut with an extraordinary first solo album. She imagined a mini-opera where she brings together 17 composers…
Venice Biennale: Francis Alÿs collects videos of endangered children’s games
Cultural meeting Francis Alÿs is the Belgian artist who represents his country at the Venice Arts Biennial, the most important artistic event in the world, taking place until November. He…
Oumou Sangaré releases “Timbuktu”: “Mali must pull itself together”
Cultural meeting Superstar in his country, as internationally: few artists can boast of having a record as brilliant as that of Oumou Sangaré. The Malian singer is releasing her new…
Portuguese artists honored at the Olivier Debré Center for Contemporary Creation
Cultural meeting As part of the France-Portugal Cultural Season, the Olivier Debré Center for Contemporary Creation in Tours, 200 km south-west of Paris, is hosting an exhibition co-produced with the…
Printemps de Bourges: Calamine, the queer rapper from Quebec who breaks the codes
It is the festival that gives the “LA” in terms of song with this particularity: two thirds of the artists programmed at the Printemps de Bourges are revelations, in particular…
Julie Mehretu, erudite and radical artist
Cultural meeting Julie Mehretu has become in recent years one of the most important and highly rated contemporary artists. The abstract paintings of this Ethiopian-born American fetch millions of dollars…
The thousand lives of Abd el-Kader at the Mucem, in Marseille
Cultural meeting If the name of Abd el-Kader (1808-1883) seems familiar to many, who really knows this eminent emir? In Marseille, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) looks…
“And there was a morning”: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the absurd
And there was a morning coming out this Wednesday in French theaters is an Israeli feature film presented in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival last year, in…
Pianist Ludovico Einaudi in concert at Salle Pleyel
His name is Ludovico Einaudi and he tops the charts with each album release. His international career owes a lot to cinema, for which he has written numerous pieces of…
The contemporary African art fair 1-54, goes up in rank in Paris
Cultural meeting The long-awaited and acclaimed 1-54 contemporary African art fair has become, in just a few editions, a must. Since its creation in 2013, this major event dedicated to…