Tag: Culture
Alexia Gredy, magician of a bedroom pop
Singer Alexia Gredy is experiencing a meteoric rise in French pop. Five years after her debut with a promising EP, this young author-composer from Mulhouse signs “Hors Saison”. A timeless…
From Ethiopia to the Rhone Valley, Armenia by Boris Adjemian
And here we are right now in April. And because there was 1915, Avril is Armenian. No ESM commemoration, but memory in all cupboards, thanks to Boris Adjemian. The name…
‘I can survive without English, but without a cello it would be very bad’
Justus van Herson comes from a musical family. His parents are both conservatories and they let him choose an instrument when he was four. That became the cello. “I once…
At the Paris Book Fair, Senegal is the new leader of the African pavilion
Africa has been present for more than ten years at the great Parisian literary mass. The traditional Book Fair has given way today to the Paris Book Festival, set up…
Julien Tuffery, the link between earth and fashion with the Tuffery workshop
The Tuffery workshop, created in 1892, is celebrating its 130th birthday this year. Julien Tuffery is the 4th generation to take over the workshop. Beyond the transmission of craftsmanship, it…
Exhibition: artist Zineb Sedira represents France at the Venice Biennale
The 59th Venice International Art Biennale opened its doors to the public on Saturday 23 April. It is the world meeting place for contemporary art and it lasts this year…
“The Odyssey of the Ants”, by Audrey Dussutour and Antoine Wystrach
The French Book of the week is interested in a much more varied world than we think: that of ants. It is the result of years of study by two…
Amala Dianor, bar body
I don’t really know who he is. I know he dances like he breathes. I know talking isn’t his thing. Dancing, flying (from moonwalking to break dancing) being in motion,…
75 years later, the Indian author Aanchal Malhotra tells the score through objects
At the time of the Paris Book Festival which is currently taking place and where Indian literature is the guest of honor, meeting with Aanchal Malhotra, Indian artist and historian,…
Women in the spotlight at the 59th Venice International Biennale of Contemporary Art
This is the Holy Grail of artists: representing your country at the Venice Art Biennale, the 59th edition of which opens its doors in the Serenissima this Saturday, April 23.…