Friday 30 May 2008
Olivier Roller, portrait virtuoso
A favourite among the French press, photographer Olivier Roller specialises in portraits of models, artists and politicians. Yet, for him, taking pictures of other people is always a way of talking about oneself.
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- THEATRE
- Howard Buten, the clown who didn't want to grow up
- Tuesday 12 August 2008
- By day, Howard Buten is a psychiatrist for autistic children. By night, he becomes Buffo the clown at the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris. He has played Buffo for more than 30 years, a way for him to preserve the child he still is.
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- ORCHESTRA
- Semyon Bychkov, conductor
- Monday 11 February 2008
- Russian-born Semyon Bychkov was renowned in St Petersburg as a free thinker. When Soviet authorities disapproved of him conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and cancelled his concert, he left to start a new life in the US, aged just 22.
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- PAINTING
- Mahi Binebine, a tireless artist
- Friday 08 August 2008
- Mahi Binebine is devoted to representing the "painful things" of his native country, Morocco, whether through painting or writing. He is the author of several books, and some of his paintings figure in the permanent Guggenheim collection.
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- CUISINE
- Pierre Gagnaire, the poetic chef
- Thursday 07 August 2008
- For three-star chef Pierre Gagnaire, food is much more than mere sustenance. Being a chef is synonymous with being a "composer of pleasure", capable of bringing emotion to the table, as well as tasty dishes.
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- LITERATURE - TRAVEL
- Sylvain Tesson, the travelling writer
- Wednesday 06 August 2008
- Writer Sylvain Tesson spent more than 15 years of his life touring the globe, from the streets of Berlin to the summits of the Himalayas. His books are a record of his many travels, and he also holds conferences to talk about his adventures.
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- MUSIC
- RoKia Traoré on the music scene
- Tuesday 05 August 2008
- The award-winning singer/songwriter discusses the origins and influences behind her music and the recent success of her gold album.
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- SCUPTURE
- For artist Ndary Lo, material has 'three lives'
- Monday 04 August 2008
- Ndary Lo says the found materials he uses in his art have "three lives", as raw material, as manufactured products, and their reborn existence after having been thrown away when he recycles cycles them into his sculptures.
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- COOKING
- Thierry Marx: "cooking is a fantasy"
- Friday 01 August 2008
- He's been named chef of the year several times and has claimed two Michelin stars. Thierry Marx goes against all the rules blending traditional and innovative styles.
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- FASHION
- Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint-Laurent's muse
- Thursday 31 July 2008
- Chance turned a young English girl with little interest in fashion into Yves Saint-Laurent's muse. After spending 30 years at his side - "like a marriage" - she has become a jewelry designer herself.
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- LITERATURE
- Colum McCann, writer
- Wednesday 30 July 2008
- For the Irish writer, every scrap of paper and every passer by can be a source of inspiration. "Everybody has a story to tell", he says. To transform them into novels, he just puts them on paper, before reading them aloud to himself.
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- LITERATURE
- Mukasonga, a survivor of the Rwandese genocide
- Tuesday 29 July 2008
- Scholastique Mukasonga arrived in France from Rwanda before the 1994 genocide. She took up writing as a way of accepting her family's death. "I cover my mother's corpse with the pages of my books", she says.
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- CUBA - LITERATURE
- Zoé Valdes, Cuban author
- Friday 25 July 2008
- Exiled from her island in 1995 after publishing a novel against Castro titled "La nada cotidiana", novelist Zoé Valdes decided to come to Paris. Thirteen years later, her nostalgia for Cuba remains very strong.
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