The Take Away Night, July 30th PAris
Since a few months French indie music blog, la Blogotheque has become the ideal example of a 21th century alternative artistic actor. Not only they discover, promote and spread the word about the current main artists, but they do create some new ways to make them know. So well that Blogotheque’s initiatives such as Vincent Moon’s “Take away shows” have already travelled the world and started being admired transatlantic.
Blogotheque’s new event is the 1st "Take Away Night”, which will gather for one night some of the artists already seen in these musical and animating paintings. Beirut, The Kocani Orkestar, Inlets, Jeremy Warmsley and others will try to play with eachother, with the beautifull Fleche d'Or set up, with the public and Vincent Moon will do the rest...
LA BLOGOTHEQUE
"Amniotic Reaction" Art Opening
On Thursday, July 19th, visionary French artist Guilain Jonchary will make his American debut. He will be presenting a multimedia installation containing nine framed plasma screens with original music. This is by no means your typical stuffy gallery opening. The event will be held at the much talked about Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn and the music by DJ Fabian Alsultany (GlobeSonic), o.blaat, and DJ Jacques Renault may even start up a dance party (if we're lucky). Wine will be provided by Beaujolais and the event is free with RSVP to rsvp@passionatemarketing.net. See you there!
Amniotic Reaction Official Website
Spotlight on a lighting Designer...
"Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer" is the name of the upcoming exhibition of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum from September 14, 2007 to January 27, 2008 . As its title suggests it, this retrospective will offer an overview of the artist four decades of work.
In preparation to the show Mr Maurer is redoing his SoHo shop, where a renovation sale has started. It runs through July 29, at Ingo Maurer, 89 Grand Street in New York. Forty of his pieces will be about half price.
Two different ways then to get familiar with the munich-based designer...So consumer or esthete just follow the light!
Black and White masterpiece...
Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the father figures of the French New Wave, is known to be one of the French film noir masters. The long unseen Le Doulos(1961) is a classic French gangster with its share of memorable sequences. Le Doulos will be shown in a new 35-millimeter print. This is a unique occasion to discover or rediscover this unfluencial masterpiece. During the Film Forum and for 2 weeks (from June 29 to July 12) the 209 W Houston Street will be one of the most scheming place in New York...
1962 | 108 minutes | Black & White | 1.66:1 | Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville| Director of Photography: Nicolas Hayer | Music by Paul Misraki | A Rialto Pictures Release
Showtimes daily: 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 & 9:50
Lincoln Center Festival, July 10th
Jean de La Fontaine is on of these timeless authors who go through the times with the same accuracy. His allegorical tales offer a universal language which can be spoken by everyone whatever the age, the nationality, the time. As a proof, the very talented American director Robert Wilson will direct at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 15 of the best French actors in the 19 La Fontaine selected vignettes, lasting no more than 5 minutes each.This new set up, mixes music, visual art, and literature and reveal all the poetry, the humour and the modernity of La Fontaine writing. The play will be in French with English subtitles.
Lincoln CenterFrench Culture.org
