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Paris: capital of art photography
16/11/2012 - CULTURE

Paris: capital of art photography

Virginie Herz takes us around "Paris Photo", a huge art photography fair with 150 exhibitors from 22 countries. We discover nudes, David Lynch’s photo selection and pictures from the surrealist artist Man Ray.
Elliott Erwitt: an 'eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera'
09/11/2012 - CULTURE

Elliott Erwitt: an 'eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera'

Elliott Erwitt has spent over half a century photographing everything from stars - including JFK, Che Guevara, and Marilyn Monroe – to unknowns, street scenes, and a fair few charismatic animals. The American great is with us as a retrospective of his photos opens in Paris. He tells Catherine Nicholson about his fascinating life and career, whether he thinks Barack Obama would make a good photo subject, and why he takes so many snaps of dogs.
Israel, Holy Land of Contemporary Art
05/11/2012 - CULTURE

Israel, Holy Land of Contemporary Art

In this edition we're heading for the Middle East: the "Pluriel" exhibition at Villa Emerige in Paris surveys Israel’s contemporary art scene, with some 15 artists from different backgrounds. The fascinating thing about these artists is how they turn the social and political context they live in into form: painting, photo, video, installation.
Cover Story
26/10/2012 - CULTURE

Cover Story

The art editor of the magazine The New Yorker, Francoise Mouly, is in the studio to show us the covers we were never meant to see. Also on the show a Paris exhibition looks at the influence Europe has on one America’s greatest artists, Edward Hopper and the singer/songwriter Bastian Baker plays his new single live.
Singer 'Christine and the Queens' aims to become music royalty
08/10/2012 - CULTURE

Singer 'Christine and the Queens' aims to become music royalty

We take you to a new exhibition in Paris featuring dazzling tiaras and other jewellery as worn by Princess Grace of Monaco, and the former Empress of Iran. Next, French singer Christine and the Queens tells us how drag queens and Michael Jackson inspire her shows. Finally, we take you to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where legendary photos of the Great Depression of the 1930s have found a new home.
Canaletto and Guardi, the two masters of Venice
01/10/2012 - CULTURE

Canaletto and Guardi, the two masters of Venice

Antonio Canal, also known as Canaletto, is the great promoter of the "veduta", a genre of landscape painting that takes the urban context as a subject in itself. The Musée Maillol in Paris is celebrating the Venetian master with a major show. Among his talented pupils was Francesco Guardi, who developed his own idiosyncratic style. Another exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André shows the relationship between these two masters of Venice.
1912: German artists' modern mission
24/09/2012 - CULTURE

1912: German artists' modern mission

In 1912, the Special League of West German Artists and Art Lovers also known as the Sonderbund chose to stage a groundbreaking exhibition in Cologne. The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum celebrates the centennial of that show with a retrospective. The aim of the Sonderbund exhibition, "Mission Moderne", was to introduce the latest developments in European Art to the German audience: Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Cubists, and Symbolists from across the continent.
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An Artist in Exile
11/09/2012 - CULTURE

An Artist in Exile

He creates some of the most complex and provocative art in the Middle East, the Iranian artist RAMIN HAERIZADEH is in the studio. Also on the show; the budget black and white adapt of Shakespeare’s ‘Much ado about Nothing’ made by the blockbuster director Joss Whedon and the long lost Renoir bought for 5 euros at a flea market.
Visa pour l'Image: the globe's photojournalism extravaganza
07/09/2012 - CULTURE

Visa pour l'Image: the globe's photojournalism extravaganza

The world's biggest photojournalism festival is underway in the southern French town of Perpignan. "Visa pour L'Image" showcases some 30 exhibitions from all over the globe and covers a wide variety of themes, from child brides to the war in Syria. France 24's Eve Irvine is just back from a week-long stay at the festival. She tells us about what she saw.
Star power at the Venice Film festival
31/08/2012 - CULTURE

Star power at the Venice Film festival

The spotlight is on the stars in Venice, both on the red carpet and on the silver screen. Also on the show, we head to a new exhibition in Monaco where bigger is better. Meanwhile, the artist, graphic novelist and political cartoonist Nicolas Vadot joins us in the studio.
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