Visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris can now tour the galleries with a Nintendo games console instead of a traditional audio guide in hand. The innovative video devices come complete with a navigation system and a guided “masterpieces” walk.
A German court ended a seven-year-long legal battle on Friday by ruling that the German Historical Museum in Berlin must return thousands of posters seized by the Nazis to an American man whose Jewish father had collected the rare artworks.
A new Henri Matisse exhibit opening this week at the Centre Pompidou in Paris shows for the first time the Fauvist's penchant for repeating the same composition again and again before he was satisfied with the result.
He has brought us some of the best and most disturbing pictures of the Syrian uprising. Photojournalist Mani meets with France 24's reporters. Next, in Yemen, it’s election time but separatists in the south are sitting this one out. They want to break away from the rest of the country instead. Finally, we discover the martial art of ninjutsu, which is gaining a cult following in Iran.
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.
