French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has confessed that he stole money to finance his films in an interview with a German newspaper to be published on Thursday.
“I had no choice. Or at least it seemed that way to me. I even stole money from my family to give to (fellow French director Jacques) Rivette […]
Godard Says He Stole Money to Make Movies
Courbet restrospective
Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He also worked with social issues, and addressed peasantry and the grave working conditions of the poor. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. Rather, Courbet believed the […]
Giacometti at Beaubourg
More than 600 rare mixed-media works from 1901-66 by the Swiss Surrealist artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, on loan from the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation, will be shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou for an exclusive 4 months exhibition.
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some […]
Safavid style
An exquisite exhibition of paintings and scriptures from the fertile artistic era following Persia’s reunion under the Safavid dynasty will include an array of artefacts depicting human beings in all art forms, characteristic of the Safavid period (1501-1736), when pride of place was given to the written word.
When: 05/10/07 to 07/01/08.
Where: Musée du Louvre, rue […]
Chaîm Soutine: le fou de Smilovitchi
Chaîm Soutine was born in Smilovitchi (near Minsk) in 1893 to a Jewish Orthodox family. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius (Lithuania), Soutine settled in Paris at the age of 20, where he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts and befriended Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
His works are typified as representative of […]
The apogée of Impressionism
The Musée Marmotta Monet will host an exhibition featuring Impressionist paintings from George de Bellio’s private collection. Born in 1828 to a wealthy Romanian family, Bellio left his home country and settled in France during the Second Republic. He bought his first Monet in 1874, and became a close friend of the painter. He was […]
From Kuroda to Foujita: Japanese art in Paris
With Japan’s opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868- 1912) came an artistic revolution. Japanese painters began to learn European techniques, and many travelled to the Old Continent, particularly Paris, to undergo training. The result is the modernisation of Japanese art and the birth of a new style, yôga.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary […]
Bond in Dinard
Unless you have lived in a cave far from society for half a century, you know the name and you know the number. 007 is the theme for this year’s British Film Festival in Dinard. Judging by the packed-out pre-festival outdoor screening of Dinard’s 18th British Film Festival, this year’s show promises to be bursting […]
An American in Paris
An evening with John Baxter
Whether cruising the film studios of the world to research for his prize-winning biographies of Woody Allen, Robert DeNiro and Stanley Kubrick, or browsing a French flea market for rare books to enrich his extraordinary collection, John Baxter remains a man gripped by the same intense curiosity which drove him to abandon rural Australia to […]
