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Illustration Week in NYC 9 Nov 2012 | 04:21 am
In 2011, Mayor Bloomberg officially proclaimed the first week of November to be Illustration Week in NYC. Sponsored by the Society of Illustrators, Parsons the New School for Design, and AI-AP, Illust...
Huis Clos / "No Exit" 8 Nov 2012 | 10:49 pm
LRP in association with Brice Baillié presents Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos ("No Exit") at the 45th Street Theatre. Performed in the original French with supertitles in English. Directed by Roxane Rev...
Remembering Elliott Carter 7 Nov 2012 | 01:05 am
Elliott Carter, the celebrated American composer, has died at the age of 103. Mr. Carter had deep ties to France thoughout his life. In the 1930s he spent three years studying with Nadia Boulanger in ...
New Literature From Europe 2012 30 Oct 2012 | 06:18 pm
Literature has been inspired by visual art and music for as long as there has been literature, whether it be the dramatic “Song of the Sea” in the book of Exodus celebrating in song the crossing of th...
Ambassador Delattre at Columbia University 30 Oct 2012 | 06:11 pm
On October 22nd François Delattre, the Ambassador of France to the United States, was invited to Columbia University to discuss “The Current and Future State of Euro-American Relations in Times of Cri...
Woodkid in Concert at Irving Plaza 26 Oct 2012 | 12:46 am
Woodkid, aka Yoann Lemoine, well known for his work as a music video director: Yelle, Moby, Katy Perry, The Shoes or more recently Lana Del Rey Born To Die and Blue Jeans, and even the Drake featuring...
THE OTHER SON directed & co-written by Lorraine Lévy opens in New York OCT 26 25 Oct 2012 | 09:12 pm
Joseph (Jules Sitruk), an 18-year-old musician preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in a comfortable suburb of Tel Aviv with his parents, France-born ph...
Jean-Marc Vallée'CAFÉ DE FLORE starring Vanessa Paradis opens Nov 2 25 Oct 2012 | 08:56 pm
Writer/Director Jean Marc Vallée (THE YOUNG VICTORIA) delivers a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound ways. The film chronicles the parallel fates of a young m...
HERE AND ELSEWHERE: The Films of Jean Rouch Part I&II 25 Oct 2012 | 08:15 pm
Anthropologist Jean Rouch's filmography includes over a hundred titles-from ethnographic studies of divine possession to a collective improvisation about itinerant chicken vendors-and although its cen...
French Comic Book Party! 24 Oct 2012 | 07:37 pm
Six of the most innovative voices in French contemporary comics will present their work and discuss their creative process in a panel discussion at the French Embassy, followed by a cocktail reception...
