An exhibition featuring ancient and modern optical illusions has opened at the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts. "Trompe l'oeil" takes a look at works designed to trick the eye, from Greek frescoes to innovations in fashion and interior design.
In today’s show, Juliette Binoche enters dark and controversial territory in ‘Elles.’ Director Malgoska Szumowska joins us in the studio to explain why the film has got everyone talking. We also visit Christian Dior's childhood home and take a look at Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut.
Socialist presidential hopeful Francois Hollande outlines his vision for the country in his first major speech. Meanwhile, France gives New Zealand back 20 Maori heads. They were brought to France by colonialists almost two centuries ago and kept in a museum as a cultural curiosity. Finally, bartering is back in Paris. If the crisis has left you short of cash, why not just start swapping instead of buying?
The gentle neurotic, Jonathan Ames, in the studio to talk about his new risqué book "The Double Life is Twice as Good." We also meet Europe’s up and coming stars at the Eurosonic festival in Holland, and visit the largest American art collection in the world, once again available for viewing at New York's Met.
Today on Culture we're tackling the taboo of teenage sexuality with frank and funny Norwegian film, "Turn Me On, Goddammit!" Director Jannicke Systad Jacobsen joins us in the studio. Also, Clint Eastwood's new biopic about the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover divides critics, and we find out whether modern art could revitalise a dreary French city.
A 1939 oil painting by Pablo Picasso was stolen from the National Gallery in Athens Monday along with two other works. Spanish-born Picasso donated "Woman's Head" to Greece in 1949 to recognise the country's resistance to Nazi Germany.
The Groninger museum in the north of the Netherlands pays tribute to Tunisian-born couturier Azzedine Alaïa with a new exhibit showing the past decade of the artist’s work.
France's famed Louvre has consolidated its position as the world's most visited museum, welcoming a record 8.8 million visitors in 2011, up five percent from the previous year.
We're looking at some of the best modern art this week courtesy of "The Eternal Detour" exhibition at Geneva's MAMCO museum. From sleepwalking cats to dead dogs and a giant skeleton, the mood is definitely eerie. But it's young French visual artist Natacha Lesueur who's caught our eye with her playful yet provocative work using food and female figures.
Dreamer in Concert - the jazz 'chanteuse' Stacey Kent is in the studio to chat about her latest live album, famous fans and love for France. Also on the show, Johnny Depp takes up the role of the gonzo legend Hunter S. Thompson in his new film, and hundreds of displaced Israeli works find a home in Tel Aviv's revamped modern art museum.
