Tag: Culture
Utrecht composer Jochem Weierink wins prize for music at BBC series
He recorded the exciting music that Weierink composed, especially with many violins, in his studio in Utrecht. “I had been briefed and the music had to work well with icy…
Jérôme Bel and Valérie Dréville, dances for an actress
Dancer and choreographer Jérôme Bel asked actress Valérie Dréville to interpret certain dance moments that have remained as major moments in modern dance. A meeting between two personalities from the…
Music: the slam committed to the East of the DRC by Ben Kamuntu
The slammer from Goma comes to present his new album to us. Screw », a year after the title « bosembo », slam which denounced the serious crimes committed in…
“On the road to the chiefdoms of Cameroon”, this exhibition which “shakes up the codes”
It is an exhibition as rare as it is spectacular and original in its approach. Because most of the 270 objects and works of art on display at the Quai…
For photographer Sebastião Salgado, “it is essential to show the difficulties of access to water”
Cultural guest The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado exhibits until September 22 at the gates of Paris, on the forecourt of the business district of La Défense, on the theme of…
Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru
Royal finery, gold and silver jewelry, funerary objects never exhibited outside Peru, the City of Architecture and Heritage, offers until September 4 an unprecedented vision of the history of Machu…
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…
Music: Sahad, “fusion” singer and environmental activist
Cultural guest His first name refers to the harvest in the Serer language. And we can say that with Sahad, the harvest is generous! The Senegalese singer has just released…
Willie and the Billies for the 20th time at Amersfoorts Smartlaagfestival .
The song of life, and preferably one in which a sentimental and sad story is told in an “excessively complaining” way. The smartlap will be back next week from never…
Alberto Manguel, a polygamous reader
It seems that the books breed at night. That’s what I thought I heard in some whispering libraries. It seems thatAlberto Manguel, this reading thinker knows a lot about the…