The Louvre and Met Exhibition: A Comparative Look at Oriental Antiquities

The Louvre and Met Exhibition: A Comparative Look at Oriental Antiquities

By Le Figaro with AFP Published 2 hours ago, Updated now “The exhibition travels from Iran to Mesopotamia and presents the works of the Louvre in a different way, […] that we will better understand thanks to the works at the Met,” Ariane Thomas, French curator of the exhibition, told AFP. Netfalls / stock.adobe.com The … Read more

Nice Carnival: Pop Culture Theme Marks Rejuvenation for 139th Edition

Nice Carnival: Pop Culture Theme Marks Rejuvenation for 139th Edition

By Le Figaro with AFP Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago Nice Carnival Access the slideshow (5) The festivities began this Saturday with a grand opening parade bringing together, around the King and the Queen, some of the parade floats, as well as flower battles, for an edition placed under the sign of … Read more

Giants Exhibition: Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Unveil Rich Collection of African-American Artists at Brooklyn Museum

Giants Exhibition: Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Unveil Rich Collection of African-American Artists at Brooklyn Museum

The global R’n’B star and hip-hop producer unveil, in the Giants exhibition, their rich collection of African-American artists at the Brooklyn Museum, Saturday February 10. She is a world star of R’n’B, he an influential hip-hop producer: music’s leading couple, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats have also assembled a rich collection of art, focused on … Read more

US Government Implements New Rules to Return Native American Artifacts to Tribes

US Government Implements New Rules to Return Native American Artifacts to Tribes

By Le Figaro with AFP Published on 01/27/2024 at 07:23, Updated on 01/27/2024 at 18:14 The goal of the U.S. government is to return these Native American artifacts to the tribes. Itza / stock.adobe.com The institution is complying with new government rules, requiring museums to obtain consent from descendants of indigenous tribes before displaying objects … Read more

Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes Welcomes 800,000th Visitor Since Opening

Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes Welcomes 800,000th Visitor Since Opening

On Wednesday January 10, the Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes welcomed its 800,000th visitor since its opening on June 2, 2018. A winning bet for the museum which quickly established itself among the cultural sites and must-visit places in Occitanie. More than 800,000 visitors! In 5 and a half years since its inauguration on … Read more

Rare Books, Personal Items, and Artwork Belonging to Winston Churchill on Sale at Winter Fair of Antiques and Designers in New York

Rare Books, Personal Items, and Artwork Belonging to Winston Churchill on Sale at Winter Fair of Antiques and Designers in New York

Books, letters, furniture and paintings that belonged to the former British Prime Minister are on sale, until January 28, at the Winter Fair of Antiques and Designers. The «old lion» Winston Churchill, hero of the Second World War and British Prime Minister, was also a painter and Nobel Prize winner for literature: some of his … Read more

Controversial Article Sparks Outrage Over Taylor Swift’s Sexual Orientation

Controversial Article Sparks Outrage Over Taylor Swift’s Sexual Orientation

By Le Figaro with AFP Published 3 hours ago, Updated now ” data-script=” > An article published Thursday in the American daily draws up a list of acts carried out by the star which suggest that she is “queer”. Many fans, who reject this hypothesis, are calling for the article to be removed. A press … Read more

The Birth of the Olympia: From Music Shed to Iconic Venue

The Birth of the Olympia: From Music Shed to Iconic Venue

The entrepreneur Joseph Oller inaugurated the “music hall” in 1893, shortly after creating the Moulin Rouge. Sixty years later, when the place had become a cinema, Bruno Coquatrix, who dreamed of a space dedicated to song, became the owner of L’Olympia. The Olympia, the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Mutuel have the same father, Joseph … Read more

Françoise Hardy’s Plea for Assisted Dying Sparks National Debate

Françoise Hardy’s Plea for Assisted Dying Sparks National Debate

Suffering from two cancers, the singer suffers martyrdom. In La Tribune Dimanche, she addresses a letter to the head of state. A plea to stop the suffering of “French people who are very sick and have no hope of getting better”. “Her life has become so painful that we sometimes wonder if it would not … Read more

Germany to Close Goethe Cultural Institutes in France and Other Locations

Germany to Close Goethe Cultural Institutes in France and Other Locations

By Le Figaro with AFP Published 3 hours ago, Updated 14 minutes ago Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin in May 2022. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP The signal sent “is not very happy”, we regret at the Élysée, while the sites of Turin, Genoa, Trieste, Rotterdam and Washington are also condemned. Berlin cited … Read more