| 3/30/2009: In memory of film music icon Maurice Jarre | |
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French film music composer Maurice Jarre died in Los Angeles last weekend at age 84. He wrote the music for more than 150 films and worked with some of the greatest directors of the last 50 years, amo...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/23/2009: French Ministry of Culture turns 50! | |
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This year France’s Ministry of Culture is celebrating its 50th anniversary. State intervention in the arts and culture domain has a long tradition in France and in 1959 the country is one of the first...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: The might of art | |
| French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel recently presented to the press the project La force de l’art 02 [The might of art 02], second exhibition edition of the great Triennial dedicated to the F...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Comic art at the Louvre! | |
| It is a premiere for the Musée du Louvre in Paris: With the exhibition Le petit dessein the Museum will for the first time and until April 13th 2009 present works by comic-strip artists.
Implementing...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/19/2009: Happy New Year to arts and culture | |
| During his visit to Nîmes last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy addressed his best wishes for the New Year to the arts and cultural world. He pointed out his hope to see the National Assembly pas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/5/2008: The Swedish ERIBA model: The World Tour | |
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In the 1980’s, some Swedish youngsters with a huge interest in punk music came up with an idea. They lived in the tiny and idyllic Swedish town Hultsfred, and for a visitor it was a place that did not...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/25/2008: Villa Medici: plans and ideas of the new director | |
| The Académie de France in Rome, founded under Louis XIV and named Villa Medici, accommodates artists for a specific period of time in order to allow them to perfect their artistic competences, be it i...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/21/2008: 2008 Power List of the contemporary art world | |
| For the seventh year in a row the famous magazine Art Review published a list of the 100 most influent personalities from contemporary art world.
Ranking first is Damien Hirst, leading the Young Brit...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/29/2008: Gainsbourg at the Cité de la Musique | |
| Gainsbourg the painter, Gainsbourg the film director and of course Gainsbourg the musician – the multifaceted French icon takes centre stage in the exhibition at the Cité de la Musique in Paris which ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/21/2008: Nobel Prize in Literature goes to France | |
| Since 1901 the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to authors whose works make important contributions to science, arts and culture. In the words from the will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel the...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/15/2008: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster transforming the Tate Modern | |
| According to curator Jessica Morgan the project created by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster for the London Tate Modern constitutes a whole exhibition in itself. The work entitled TH.2058 ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/30/2008: Pedro Almodóvar debated in Berlin | |
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The work of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar was debated last week (September 26th to 28th) at Humboldt University in Berlin. Experts from different countries analyzed its transgressive aesthetics...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/23/2008: Fernando Pessoa House all set for the new season | |
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Several exhibitions, an international congress and the recreation of the room of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa mark the program for the season 2008/2009 of the Fernando Pessoa House, which aims ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/16/2008: Lyon Dance Biennial 2008 | |
| Every two years at the beginning of autumn the city of Lyon hosts one of the most expected dance events of France and the whole world. Programmers of international dance establishments as well as the ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 8/22/2008: Successful fashion week in Stockholm | |
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Despite Sweden being on the edge of a possible recession, the just finished Stockholm Fashion Week has been a success. All shows have been sold-out, probably due to a new concept, where fashion, music...... Read Announcement... |
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