Virginie Herz on photography, Amobe Mevegue on music, Sean Rose on exhibitions, Jessica Michault on fashion, Lisa Nesselson on cinema and Sylvia Whitman on literature... Every evening, our culture critics give you the lowdown on the latest trends. Monday to Friday at 8.50 pm.
Photos from Sudan : an exhibtion beyond the clichés
For this first snapshot review, Virginie Herz talks about “Sudanese photography”, an exhibition she really loved because it shows another perspective on Sudan, far away from the usual clichés. The Bayeux Festival of war correspondent is also at the menu. And to finish, she focuses on Great Wall of China overcrowded, it’s the picture of the week…
Olivia Salazar-Winspear brings us the latest from the world of photography, with an art fair in Los Angeles, the discovery of some 70-year-old lost negatives and a Chinese artist who's the chameleon of the contemporary art scene.
We all need a bit of comedy in our lives. Sometimes we just want to laugh;sometimes we want to engage with something serious in a humorous way. Today our book critic Sylvia Whitman will talk about three books that have made her giggle recently – from diabetic owls to existential cats!
French polymath Boris Vian's 1947 novel "L'Ecume des jours" has been
brought to the screen with relentless creativity by director Michel
Gondry. Upstaged by hand-made gizmos and analogue special effects,
Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou and Omar Sy star in the film, whose English
title is "Mood Indigo."
Phoenix are a French band who sell more records in America than in France. Winners of a Grammy Award in 2009, they are releasing their fifth album with accents of the 80s. The ever-changing David Bowie is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Aladdin Sane, another character from his collection of pseudonyms. And although his name doesn’t make it apparent, Hanni el Khatib is American and is putting out a new album which is pure rebel rock and roll.
Paris’ Museum of Modern Art is staging an exhibition on Keith Haring, the famous American street artist who died of AIDS in 1990, aged 31. The show, entitled "The Political Line", focuses on Haring’s radical fight against the oppression of the individual in whatever form it may take – state, religion, or social prejudice. He is an emblematic figure of 1980s New York.
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