Impressionism is seldom associated with the notion of decoration, neither with walls, objects, fans, ceramics nor with any bas-reliefs. Nevertheless, certain impressionist works considered nowadays as easel paintings - landscapes, flowers or modern life scenes - were initially created with the aim of decorating. Feeling concerned with the part played by beauty in everyday life, […]
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- June 24, 2022
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How to protect our planet has to be taught. In the United-Kingdom, the Education Department has chosen to prepare the youngsters to face the climate crisis starting from school years. Secondary school students will soon be able to choose a new speciality for their General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), the equivalent of the Brevet […]
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- June 20, 2022
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Female artists of the first half of the XXth century played a major part in the development of the great modern artistic movements , and yet, nevertheless, they were never recognized as such. The course of the exhibition wishes to reinscribe them in the process of art in transformation : from fauvism to abstraction, via […]
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- June 17, 2022
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The delicate orchid named Prasophyllum morgani, identified for the last time in 1933, has recently been observed in Australia. A discovery that delights Australian botanists, seldom witness of the reappearance of species they thought extinct. Whilst it had been spotted for the last time in 1933, new specimens of the Prasophyllum Morgani orchid were located […]
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- June 12, 2022
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Theater Through a succession of short skits, the story covers a period stretching from the XVIIth to the XXth centuries. In Russia, in the 30´s, Boileau, Chapelle and La Fontaine invite themselves at Boulgakov’s who is utterly distraught because all his works have been removed from theaters and libraries. From this point, to the author […]
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- June 06, 2022
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Thanks to a selection of around a hundred works - paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and artistic objects - , the exhibition invites the visitors to come and discover the heroines , either resumed or created by romanticism : heroines of the past, heroines from fictions, heroines from the stage. This journey in three phases offers the […]
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- June 03, 2022
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Thanks to surprising immersive staging , plunge into the enchanting world of the Incas, heirs of ecological, technological and artistic disciplines of the ancient Peruvian civilizations. More than a traditional exhibition of remarkable archeological objects, the exhibition is an immersive experience in the universe of ancient Peru societies which built , during over 3000 years […]
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- June 01, 2022
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The electric ferry Movitz is a new type of ferry developed in order to bring a contribution as regards reducing the sea traffic gas emissions. The ferry is equipped with two electric engines and can carry up to 120 passengers. It has also been conceived to be particularly quiet, which will also contribute to reducing […]
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- May 27, 2022
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« Over the course of a slow twilight »: such is Hofmannsthal’s stage direction for the representation of Elektra, Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy, of unbelievable violence and darkness. Such is also the expression currently in use to describe the ultimate splendours of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the cosmopolitan Europe in the early years of the XXth […]
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- May 23, 2022
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For this concert, the artists of the Academy have chosen classics of the American and Anglo-Saxon repertoire. Particularly the Hermit songs and Dover Beach by Samuel Barber, the old American songs by Copland and the Songs of travel by Vaughan-Williams.
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- May 20, 2022
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