In his youth, Englishman Walter Sickert began a brief acting career. Then he embraced painting by entering Whistler’s studio. His taste for the theater has never left him, however, judging by the many music-hall paintings and self-portraits, as changeable as a chameleon, exhibited today at the Petit Palais. This is one of the charms of … Read more
Published on : 18/09/2022 – 00:10 In Senegal, the Tara laboratory boat is doing its final research on the Casamance river in the south of the country until September 19, before returning to France on October 15. But in Dakar, awareness of the role of the ocean and the need for its protection continues, especially … Read more
The steel carcass of a gigantic fish lies on either side of the nave of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux. In the middle, as if emerging from the animal’s belly, among half-open mesh boxes, strange costumes in bright colors, in the shape of octopus, starfish or coral, seem to be waiting only … Read more
Cultural meeting Published on : 01/03/2022 – 00:14 Representation of Molière reading his play “Tartuffe” at Ninon de Lenclos’s painted by Nicolas André Monsiau in 1802. (Illustration image) © Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images 1622-2022: France celebrates the year Molière, born 400 years ago. The author of learned women, from doctor in spite of himself … Read more
Rama and Onésime take pictures of themselves in front of the showcases of the thrones of Kings Ghézo and Glélé. “How did geniuses manage to sculpt such a thing? These are proofs of our great history! », rave these Beninese heritage students who came to Cotonou by bus with their class. These majestic seats welcome … Read more
Striking vision: a child, seated and naked, plays with a small car in the huge rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris. At a good distance, the carcass of a life-size pick-up responds to him, while the self-portrait of the artist, seated on a stele, seems to observe the scene. Invited to exhibit in … Read more
ABC Updated:02/11/2022 21:34h Keep Forty years after his first exhibition, the Aragonese painter Pepe Cerdá brings his most recent work to Madrid, a large exhibition with his figurative-style landscapes and portraits. He does it in the Casa de Vacas, in the Retiro Park, a room that has become a reference for contemporary realistic painting. Before … Read more
Ivannia SalazarFOLLOW, CONTINUE Correspondent in London Updated:29/01/2022 00:28h Keep Walking among the works of Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is not exactly a pleasant task: they are full of crudeness and disturbing scenes that some people have not even had in their worst nightmares. But it is impossible to observe him with indifference and in each stroke the … Read more