Tag: modernity
What traces of Africa in “The Paris of Modernity”?
What was the place of Africa and African art in Paris when the “City of Lights” was the world capital of art? In a unique way, an exhibition at the…
Arts: in Côte d’Ivoire, the exhibition “The Culture Shock” questions the relationship between tradition and modernity
In Ivory Coast, the exhibition “The Culture Shock” was extended until September 11 at the Adama Toungara Museum of Contemporary Cultures located in the commune of Abobo in Abidjan. It…
Brahim Alaoui: “Restore through stories the history of the art of modernity in Arab countries”
Through 50 portraits of artists from the four corners of the Arab world, Brahim Alaoui attempts to write a history of Arab art. The author who has long been at…
“Black Knight”: the film that recounts the youth of Tehran with modernity
Black Knight, The first feature film by director Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi, who has been living in France for several years, portrays the idleness of youth. The film, which was released…
Studio Shap Shap, a Nigerian group that instrumentalizes tradition and modernity
Studio Shap Shap, behind this name hides one of the most original bands in West Africa. A group from Niamey, Niger, whose name means ” quickly done well done “.…
the origins of modernity in literature
Ignoring the censorship that weighed on the novelist James Joyce in the Anglo-Saxon world, a Parisian publisher published a hundred years ago, in Paris, the complete version of Ulysses in…