Twenty years after the catastrophy, The Shoah Memorial in Paris devotes an exhibition to the Rwandan genocide, committed between April 7th and mid-July 1994 and during which around a million persons were murdered. A rerence in knowledge of the Holocaust as well as of other 20th century genocides, the Memorial proposes this retrospective to commemorate […]
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After opening a gourmet restaurant, a brasserie and a hotel, French double-starred Chef Jean-François Piège only needed an icing on his cake! This is why he opened the patisserie Gâteaux Thoumieux, whose decoration was made by architect and interior designer India Madhavi, who also created the decoration of the design hotel of the same name. […]
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This exhibition is presented in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of World War I, in partnership with the French Ministry of Defence. It recounts the days before the war was declared, from July 23rd to August 4th 1914, as well as the first consequences of the war. Exhibition: "Summer 1914, the Last Days of the […]
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Organized by the AWI in partnership with King Abdulaziz's National Library, this exhibition recounts the history of the "hajj", a pilgrimage to Mecca which is one of the five pillars of Islam. Artists (such as Orientalist painters), journalists, travellers and pilgrims express their views on this practice, whether it be mystique, religious or individual. Exhibition: […]
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The Cinémathèque française (French film library) pays tribute to its founder, Henri Langlois (1914-1977), with an unprecedented retrospective on the man who made a connection between cinema and arts. It was also thanks to Henri Langlois that cinema moved from a status of entertainment to that of seventh art. He left behind a rich collection […]
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This exhibition of Jean-Pierre Bonfort's photographs is based on the recount of Louis Barthas, a cooper from the Aude department who went to the front in 1914 and stayed there for four years. Composed of 19 notebooks, the texts was discovered and published in 1978 by historian Rémy Cazals. Little by little, the photographer followed […]
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This exhibition is based on the Atlas Mnémosyne by early 20th century art historian Aby Warburg. Conceived by art critic Georges Didi-Huberman and artist Arno Gisinger, this event shows how images from the past can survive until present time, through painting, cinema, and arts in general. Exhibition: "New Ghosts Stories", from February 14th to September […]
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The French will soon be able to produce power with their smartphones. An Aix-en-Provence based start-up called Sunpartner has designed a transparent film that you can stick on glasses and screens to turn them into solar pannels. Invisible to the naked eye, it contains tiny photovoltaic cells which, when you let them in the sun, […]
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In its exhibition dedicated to the secrets of how a cartoon is made, the Gaîté Lyrique museum unveils the works of around fifteen international artists specialized in animated movie. The public will be shown mock-ups, sketches, wood, paper and plasticine figurines, as well as storyboard archives. For instance, you will learn that it takes 24 […]
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In partnership with the Fondation Jean Jaurès, the French national Archives present an exhibition devoted to the life of Jean Jaurès, a brillant French speaker very committed in politics and in journalism, who was murdered in 1914. The founder of democratic socialism, Jean Jaurès became a reference of French republic. He also launched the newspaper […]
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