Tag: Pompidou
Why the government should take inspiration from the Pompidou method, by Nicolas Bouzou – L’Express
The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Georges Pompidou was little celebrated. Christophe Tardieu and David Lisnard published an inspired essay on the modernity of the former president (Lessons from…
Why Georges Pompidou was a visionary environmentalist, by Jérémie Gallon – L’Express
It may seem surprising to associate the term “ecology” with Georges Pompidou. At a time when this word was not yet part of the common vocabulary, the native of Montboudif…
France: “Over the rainbow” at the Center Pompidou, when art translates the LGBT + struggle
Paintings, photographs, film posters or even video extracts from activist meetings… At the Center Pompidou in Paris, the temporary exhibition Over the rainbow highlights the struggles led by the LGBT+…
At the Center Pompidou, immersion in the segregationist America of the 1950s
For the first time, the Center Pompidou is offering an augmented reality installation. We go back to this installation in the heart of Alabama in the 1950s. This is the…
Sculptor Germaine Richier highlighted at the Pompidou Center
/ Podcasts / Cultural report His name may mean nothing to you. Germaine Richier is nevertheless one of the greatest modern French sculptors. In Paris, the Pompidou Center offers him…
back to the 2023 literary festival at the Center Pompidou
From March 8 to 12, the annual literary festival Effractions was held at the Center Pompidou, devoted to the ferment of reality through the prism of contemporary fiction. About forty…
“The great art” of the Indian painter SH Raza celebrated at the Center Pompidou
How to speak of a dialogue of cultures when entire civilizations remain neglected in the globalized space of contemporary creation? Very few know the name of Sayed Haider Raza (1922-2016).…
Exhibition: “Colonial Décadrage” at the Center Pompidou
“Colonial Décadrage” is the title of a small photo exhibition at the Center Pompidou that explores an immense history of the representation of the black body. The images come mainly…
Africa in the spotlight at the “Cinéma du réel” festival at the Center Pompidou
Cultural meeting From March 11 to 20, 2022, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, the “Cinéma du réel” festival, the biggest event in France devoted to documentaries, is making a…
At the Center Pompidou, the Gaston Paris exhibition plunges us into the world of entertainment in the 1930s
The Rendez-vous culture takes us today to discover a photographer reporter whose pictures tell of a pivotal period, that of the 1930s. His name is Gaston Paris. His images were…