March playlist: 1 hour of music!
Every month, Culturez-vous presents a playlist with a selection of the latest music releases! In this new selection : Annael, Oete, Mathieu Saïkaly, Rone, Fakear, Stromae, Lucy Dacus, Chevalrex et Pi Ja Ma, Maxence Cyrin, Animal Triste, La Belle Vie, Anna Majidson, Maud Lübeck, Corde et Princess Chelsea. You can also find this playlist on Youtube, Deezer and Spotify ! […]
5 exhibitions not to be missed in Paris in March
Many exhibitions have just opened in Paris at the beginning of the year. So which ones are not to be missed? Here are my 5 favourite exhibitions of the moment that I strongly recommend you go and see! Meeting the Little Prince, at the MAD The MAD ( Museum of Decorative Arts) is paying tribute […]
Bizet’s Carmen: the story of an opera that caused a scandal!
“Love is a gypsy child, it has never, ever, known a law” … You certainly know this famous aria from Carmen, an opera by Bizet! However, this opera caused a scandal in its time and was almost forgotten. What is the story behind Carmen? And how did this opera become so famous? A look back […]
Who was Iannis Xenakis? An innovative artist to (re)discover at the Philharmonie de Paris
“I was born twenty-five centuries too late” confided Iannis Xenakis. Yet this lover of Greek antiquity was resolutely modern, to the point of reinventing music and creating new architectural forms. Architect, engineer, composer, mathematician… Xenakis was all these things at once, which makes him a particularly atypical artist. On the occasion of the centenary of […]
At the macLYON: 4 new contemporary art exhibitions to discover
Lyon’s charm lies in its pralines, its traboules and… its museum of contemporary art, the “macLYON“. Yes! I classify this museum on the same level as the pralines, that’s how much I love this amazing cultural place. What strikes you about this museum is its openness. It is open to the public, to local and […]
The Departure of the Infantrymen at the Paris Eastern train station: Albert Herter’s tribute painting to his son
Today we are interested in a painting that is not exhibited in a museum or an art gallery but… in the Eastern Train Station in Paris! And this hanging owes nothing to chance. The painting “Le départ des poilus, août 1914” (The Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914) by the American painter Albert Herter reminds […]