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CULTURAL/EVENTS AGENDA
MAY 2010
This agenda presents a selection of French or French-related events in the Midwest.
For a complete calendar of events for the French and French-speaking associations
in your area, please visit their respective web sites.
Agenda culturel pour la région de Chicago / Cultural Agenda for the Chicago area: "LIAISON" |
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HENRI IV OF FRANCE: THE VERT GALANT AND HIS REIGN
MAY 4 - JULY 15
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks the anniversary of Henri’s death by showing some of the remarkable cultural and political accomplishments of this popular monarch’s reign. Free admission
The Newberry Library - The R. R. Donnelley Exhibition Gallery |
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AN DROUZ VOR AT THE 14TH ANNUAL CHICAGO CELTIC FESTIVAL AT MILLENNIUM PARK
MAY 8 AT 6:15 PM at Dance Stage
MAY 9 AT 2:30-3:15 PM at Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage |
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The festival presented by the Department of Special Events of the City of Chicago brings world renowned artists to Chicago to celebrate the culture of the seven ancient Celtic nations. For the 2010 edition, France is represented by the Celtic Group An Drouz Vor . Based in the historic coastal town of Port-Louis in Brittany, An Drouz Vor combines traditional dances, songs and music in a dynamic performance. The theatrical troupe is accompanied by its singers, its musical band and its bagpipers trio .Free Admission - Complete information. |
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CHICAGO SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL CUP Hosted by the Chicago Fire Soccer Club
MAY 19 & MAY 22 AT TOYOTA PARK |
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NOT TO BE MISSED! Joining the Fire for the two-day, four-team international tournament are Legia Warsaw of Warsaw, Poland, Paris Saint-Germain of Paris, France and Red Star Belgrade of Belgrade, Serbia. Famed Parisian club Paris Saint-Germain, one of the most decorated outfits in French soccer, has won two Ligue 1 titles, seven Coupes de France, a record three Coupes de la Ligue and two Trophées des Champions.The Paris Saint-Germain recently won the Coupe de France 2010! |
Les Parisiens feature French World Cup finalist and Champions League winner (Real Madrid) midfielder Claude Makélélé along with former Barcelona striker Ludovic Giuly and former France national team goalkeeper Grégory Coupet. “Paris Saint-Germain Football Club is delighted to participate in its first soccer tournament in the United States. PSG is privileged and honored to represent the City of Paris in the Chicago Sister Cities International Cup,” said Paris Saint-Germain President Robin Leproux.
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WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CELLO?
MAY 27 AT 7:30 PM
The International Voices Project @ the Alliance Française de Chicago |
| What Shall We do with the Cello was written by Matei Visniec, translated by Mioara Tarzioru and directed by Max Truax of the Trap Door Theatre. Premiere Theatre & Performance (PTAP) presents The International Voices Project (IVP), a series of concert readings by playwrights of international origins. These one-night events, produced in collaboration with the Consulate Generals of Spain, France, Japan, Canada, and India includes a performance, a post performance dialogue with the cast and audience, and a reception. The Alliance Française de Chicago is proud to partner with the first edition of the International Voices Project and the Cultural Services of the French Consulate in premiering the exceptional work of French playwright Matei Visniec. Free Admission. Complete information. |
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MATISSE - RADICAL INVENTION, 1913-1917
THROUGH JUNE 20
This groundbreaking exhibition presents the first sustained examination of one of the most important periods of Matisse’s career—the years in which he labored over the Art Institute’s monumental and mysterious Bathers by a River among other works. Merging new art historical and archival information with new scientific technologies, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 offers a fresh look at this modern master’s most ambitious and inspiring work. Rigorously purged of descriptive detail, sharply composed, and dominated by the colors black and gray, the works Matisse produced between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Though Matisse himself identified two canvases from this time—Bathers by a River and The Moroccans—as among his most “pivotal,” scholars have typically described these and other works of the period as singular responses to Cubism or World War I, disconnected from the rest of his artistic career. |
Henri Matisse. Bathers by a River, 1909, 1913, 1916. Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. © 2010 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. |
This original exhibition is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of Matisse’s work from this important period, revealing fascinating information about his working methods, experimental techniques, and compositional choices, uncovered through extensive new historical, technical, and scientific research undertaken at the Art Institute and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Powerfully representing this remarkable aspect of his career are nearly 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from around the world. Also on display are the artist’s innovative etchings, engravings, and monotypes—prints made only during this period—as well as the little-known series “Civil Prisoners of Bohain-en-Vermandois” which demonstrates how the artist attempted to unite art, life, and wartime concerns in the early 20th century.
Art Institute of Chicago - Regenstein Hall |
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SPATIAL CITY: AN ARCHITECTURE OF IDEALISM
MAY 23 - AUGUST 28
EXHIBITION RECEPTION: MAY 23 FROM 3-5 PM |
The Hyde Park Art Center presents Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, a major touring exhibition of contemporary art drawn from the French Regional Contemporary Art Funds (Frac) on view through August 8, 2010. This is the first exhibition of the Frac collections in the United States, and it will tour the Midwest throughout 2010. Spatial City brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists - with an emphasis on artists living in France - whose work contends with utopian thinking and, in counterpoint, the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality.
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The exhibition traces the connection between the vanguard concepts of urban space dominant in the mid-twentieth century and championed by Yona Friedman to the art of the present, bringing together historical and recent examples of artists from the US and abroad. Originating curator Nicholas Frank (Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee) worked with participating curators Allison Peters Quinn (HPAC) and Luis Croquer (the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) to develop the exhibition and tour.
The Hyde Park Art Center will host Paris-based photographer Philippe Durand in residence from June 22nd until July 12, 2010. The residency is made possible through the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. The artist is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris.
Spatial City : An Architecture of Idealism, is supported in part by CulturesFrance-French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (Délégation aux Arts Plastiques), the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Consulate in Chicago and friends of the Hyde Park Art Center.
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Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism est la première présentation des collections des Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain (FRAC) aux États-Unis. Associant l'ensemble des FRAC, cette exposition circule pendant toute l'année 2010 entre trois villes du Midwest : Milwaukee (05/02-18/04), Chicago du 23/05-08/08 au Hyde Park Art Center et Détroit (10/09-26/12) au Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Communiqué de presse. Dossier complet.
Les fonds régionaux d'art contemporain ont été créés en 1983 sous l'impulsion de Jack Lang, alors ministre de la culture. Symboles de la décentralisation, ils sont subventionnés pour la plupart à part égale entre région et Etat. Leur mission consiste à acquérir des oeuvres d'art et à les diffuser auprès du public le plus large. Ils sont au nombre de vingt-quatre, en métropole et outre-mer. (Extrait du Monde du 05/03/10) |
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EXHIBITION: TRACING PROUST
THROUGH MAY 23
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) has been called the greatest novelist of the twentieth century. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Kolb-Proust Archive together own one of the world's leading research collections of Marcel Proust materials. This exhibition includes original manuscripts, correspondence, and prints from these collections that expose traces of the compositional process, revealing the creative play of Proust's artistry and the artist himself. Guest Curators: Caroline Szylowicz and Chatham Ewing. Exhibition sponsored by Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; and Krannert Art Museum Council.
Krannert Art Museum - University of Illinois at Urbana. |
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RFI IN THE UNITED STATES
RFI has signed an agreement with AudioNow to broadcast its French programs on the telephone network, 24 hours a day, in 5 American cities: Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami and New York City. You can now listen to RFI in Chicago by calling the following phone number (only local charges will apply): 312.646.7684. On November 15 2009, 6 more U.S. cities will be added to the list including, New Orleans, Lafayette, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington D.C. where RFI will be available 24 hours a day in French. Read the press release. |
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MANET AS PRINTMAKER
THROUGH AUGUST 1
Although Edouard Manet’s printmaking career was relatively short, his graphic work reveals the evolution of his artistic style and his mastery of the medium. This installation includes several examples of his etchings in the more traditional Realist style favored by the nineteenth-century Etching Revival, as well as his looser, more impressionistic lithographs, including a rare proof of his groundbreaking print The Races [Race at Longchamp].
Indiana University Art Museum - Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor |
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BODY UNBOUND: CONTEMPORARY COUTURE FROM THE IMA'S COLLECTION
THROUGH JANUARY 30, 2011
This exibit examine the many ways designers have manipulated, transformed and liberated the female figure. The exhibition will feature groundbreaking designs by Rudi Gernreich, Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianni Versace and other avant-garde fashion designers. Body Unbound will explore how these designers used modern construction and unexpected materials to contort, conceal, reveal or mock their wearers. Fashions by visionaries Rudi Gernreich and Jean-Paul Gaultier illustrate how some designers played with the notions of shape and construction, challenging mid-century ideals of form. Examples by Issey Miyake and Junya Watanabe, based on the theories of androgyny and “universal beauty,” demonstrate how Japanese designers working in Paris in the 1980s and 1990s promoted an alternate way of styling the body, concealing its contours and silhouette.Pieces by Thierry Mugler, Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino display how designers utilized innovative textiles and subversive design elements to toy with the concepts of seduction and femininity.
Indianapolis Museum of Art. |
Image: Rudi Gernreich, American, (1922-1985), dress, 1968 wool, vinyl. |
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FROM MONET TO PICASSO: THE RILEY COLLECTION
MAY 22 - SEPTEMBER 19 |
Local collectors Tom and Nan Riley have been quietly creating an extraordinary collection of European art of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. With significant but little-known works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissaro, Chagall, Cassatt, Dufy, Matisse, Léger, Mondrian, Miró, Dali, Braque, and Picasso, the Riley Collection has become one of the most significant private collections in the state of Iowa. These European masterworks join works by local artists Grant Wood and Marvin Cone, infusing a bit of American art into the collection. The exhibition shares, for the first time, this extraordinary collection with the public.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
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| Photo: Claude Monet, Étretat: Falaise d’amont, gros temps (Étretat: Upper cliffs, rough weather), about 1884-1886, pastel on gray paper, laid down on another sheet, courtesy of Tom and Nan Riley. |
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NEWS AND NIGHTMARES: HOMER, ERNST, AND WOOD ENGRAVING
THROUGH JUNE 13
This exhibition looks at 19th-century wood engraved illustrations created for the mass media from the perspective of two radically different artists. From 1857 through the 1880s, Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) designed over 200 wood engravings for illustrated periodicals such as Harper’s Weekly. Homer’s drawn-on-the-spot illustrations depicted the public and private life of Americans, including their entertainments, holidays, and sports, as well as portraits of political figures and events, and images of the Civil War. In 1933, Max Ernst (French, born Germany, 1891-1976) cut up and recombined illustrated melodramatic and romantic 19th-century French periodicals to create his astonishing Surrealist collage novel. |
News & Nightmares includes 16 prints designed by Winslow Homer from the Art Center’s complete collection of Winslow Homer’s wood engravings. The exhibition also features 26 images from the Art Center’s recent acquisition, Max Ernst’s une semaine de bonté, ou les septs elements capitaux (A Week of Kindness, or the Seven Deadly Elements) 1934. Plese visit the website for other programs related to this exhibition.
Des Moines Art Center - Print Gallery.
Photo: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) Thanksgiving Day—The Church. Published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper on December 23, 1865. Electrotype from wood engraving, with typographic text on paper 13 15/16 x 9 3/16 inches (page); 15 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (image) Gelman 156. Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Richard and Kay Ward, 2003.110 |
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MASTERS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE PRINT
THROUGH MAY 23 |
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Spanning 500 years of Western printmaking history, In the Footsteps of Masters features approximately 80 reproductive prints from the 15th to the 20th century, including original prints and drawings by artists Albrecht Dürer, Annibale Carracci, Jusepe De Ribera, Edouard Manet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Francisco Goya, and Grant Wood, as well as reproductive prints made after the works of famous masters such as Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Jan Van Eyck, Titian, Michelangelo, and others.
Figge Art Museum - University of Iowa Museum |
| Photo: Cornelis Galle the Elder (Flemish; Antwerp, 1576-1650), Procne Showing Tereus the Head of his Child (after Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish; Antwerp, 1577-1640), c. 1637, Engraving, Museum purchase 1980.92 |
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MACHINE IN A VOID
THROUGH MAY 22
Several years in the making, the Spencer-organized Machine in a Void will present nearly 150 works of graphic art made during the years of the First World War (1914-1918), with a post-script on the art of the decade following the war. By invoking the perspective of primarily European artists, the exhibition will bring attention to the substantial roles played by the graphic arts during WWI (1914–1918) as a tool for official propaganda and as means of voicing individual responses to the war ranging from documentation to dissent.
The Spencer's collections are rich in works from France, Belgium and Germany and the exhibited artists include Otto Dix, Kerr Eby, George Grosz, Jules de Bruycker, Henri de Groux, André Devambez, Erich Heckel, Henri Ibels, Jean-Emile Laboureur, Karl Maes, Maxime Maufra, Ludwig Meidner, Robert Michel, Johannes Molzahn, Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Georg Scholz, Max Slevogt, Edmond van Dooren, and, Jean Veber. Stephen Goddard, senior curator of prints & drawings, is organizing the exhibition following a sabbatical spent primarily in Germany and a fellowship at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University—one of the world’s great repositories for WWI-era material culture. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Spencer will offer programming that involves the campus and the community, including curricular initiatives at KU, a film/book series, children’s art classes, and social networking. A catalogue is planned.
Spencer Museum of Art |
Henry de Groux
1867-1930
born: St-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium ; died: Marseille, France
Lanceur de granade (Grenade Thrower), 1914-1916
Le Visage de la Victoire
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WORLD OPERA IN CINEMA: ROMEO AND JULIETTE
MAY 27 AT 7 PM
MAY 29 AT 2PM
With its four duets for the title couple Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is one of the most famous love tragedies in opera literature. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of this year’s best director of a musical Tony Award for his revival of South Pacific on Broadway) makes his European opera debut with this production of Roméo et Juliette at the exceeding ambience of the Felsenreitschule. |
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| Rolando Villazón, one of the leading lyric tenors of our day and has been acclaimed for performances at leading theatres across the world, acts as Romeo. As Julia acts the young Georgian soprano Nino Machaizde, who made her La Scala debut in 2006 as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of Jeffrey Tate. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director designate of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts for the first time in Salzburg. Detroit Film Theater. |
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STEPHANE WREMBEL
MAY 28 AT 7 & 8:30 PM
Stephane Wrembel calls his music “gypsy jam”: gypsy jazz infused with African and Latin rhythms, as well as other assorted world strains. For this performance he leads a celebration of the centenary of jazz guitar great Django Reinhardt’s birth.
Detroit Institute of Art |
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MOVEMENT: DETROIT ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
MAY 29-31
Movement Electronic Music Festival takes place in downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza every May, celebrating techno music in the city where it was born. Saturday through Monday, from noon til midnight the beats don’t stop. Experience electronic music being performed by top artists from around the world including French artists and join nearly 100,000 revelers for one of biggest parties of 2010! Complete information. |
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FILMS AT THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MINNEAPOLIS - SAINT PAUL
CINE-CLUB
MAY 14 at 7 PM
Buffet froid directed by Bertrand Blier (1979)
Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men.
MAY 28 at 7 PM
L’homme de Rio directed by Philippe de Broca (1964)
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. |
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AMERICAN WOMEN REBUILDING FRANCE, 1917 – 1924
THROUGH JULY 11
This exhibition, organized by the Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt, France, consists of more than forty vintage photographs and rare silent film footage that bring to life the extraordinary work undertaken between 1917 and 1924 by 350 American women – all volunteers – who left comfortable lives in the United States to help the war-ravaged civilian population of northeastern France. The dynamic leader of this effort was Anne Morgan, daughter of financier J. Pierpont Morgan, who collected private funds and founded the American Committee for Devastated France. |
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The Franco-American Museum, Château de Blérancourt (Blérancourt, Aisne, France) was created after World War I by Anne Morgan and is today a French national museum devoted to the history of friendship and collaboration between the United States and France.
The Franco-American Museum Curator, Anne Dopffer, has selected the photographs featured in this exhibition.
A first time collaboration with the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, the exhibit will subsequently be presented at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City from September 1 – November 21, 2010.
This special exhibit is supported in part by The Florence Gould Foundation, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation and the American Friends of Blérancourt, Inc., an American non-profit organization based in New York City.
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FACES BEHIND BARBED WIRE: THE RIVESALTES INTERNMENT CAMP MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
THROUGH MAY 6 |
Between 1938 and 1946, the French government interned 600,000 persons, men, women, children, elderly and the infirm. Spaniards, foreigners, gypsies, Jews, communists, prostitutes, black marketeers, suspects of collaboration and German civilians were held in these 200 camps created by the French government. For decades after the war this history was hidden from public view. The Rivesaltes internment camp is the only trace of this dark chapter in French history. During World War II, Rivesaltes was one of Southern France's main internment camps. The Rivesaltes military base, near the border with Spain, in fact holds a notorious place in French history as the camp was only closed in 1970. The Rivesaltes Internment Camp Memorial (which has been subject of profiles in the New York Times and Washington Post) will be the first Holocaust memorial in Southern France and the largest Holocaust memorial in Western Europe. Thousands of Jews were sent from Rivesaltes to Auschwitz. Many of them were children. This exhibition tells the story of Rivesaltes and those of who survived their internment there. The exhibition is based in part on the groundbreaking research of one of France's most acclaimed historians, Denis Peschanski. Photographs and documents have been generously provided by the Musée Mémorial du camp Rivesaltes and by a Holocaust survivor based here in St. Louis, Missouri. Rivesaltes survivor testimonies from Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation will be screened at the exhibition. In June 2010, nearly 70 years later, these survivor testimonies filmed by Steven Spielberg's organization will be personally delivered by Rabbi Haziza-Sokol and Congregation Kol Am's leadership to the Director of the Holocaust Memorial at Rivesaltes in France. Faces Behind Barbed Wire includes original contributions by some of Europe's greatest writers and scholars, including Moris Farhi, Professor Alejandro Baer, and Academy Award winner Frederic Raphael.
Holocaust Museum and Learning Center |
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HATS BETWEEN THE WARS: 1918-1940 DISPLAY AND LECTURE
MAY 12 AT 7 PM
St. Louis native and Francophile Genevieve Cortinovis will lecture in English on hats worn between the wars 1918-1940. Ms. Cortinovis received her Masters in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Bard Graduate Center in New York. She works as a freelance researcher and writer in Paris.
Alliance Française School & Cultural Center. |
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THE HORSE SHOW
THROUGH MAY 29
The Horse Show is an exhibition of horse objects from the Sheldon's remarkable collection of sculpture as well as two-dimensional holdings and sculpture on loan from private local collections. Included will be Deborah Butterfield's Derby Horse, Marino Marini's Horseman, and Boris Lovet-Lorski's On Parade (Stallions). Two additional folk art pieces, our 19th-Century Horse (Shop Sign) by an unknown artisan and Carousel Horse (Bessie), also from Sheldon's permanent collection. On loan from private collectors for the exhibition in the Great Hall will be Niki de Saint Phalle's Le Cheval et la Mariee (The Horse and the Bride) and Five Horses—Side by Side by Immi C. Storrs as well as another Butterfield, Gus, and Jean Pierre Larocque's Untitled Horse III.
Sheldon Museum of Art. |
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN directed By André Téchiné
MAY 14 - MAY 27
André Téchiné’s seductive drama THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN opens with an extended traveling shot inside a tunnel. The camera appears to be perched at the front of the train, so that it looks as if we’re hurtling through the dark toward the nearing light, an apt description of what happens to the title character and, to an extent, the viewer. The film can be described as a character study or a fictionalized slice of terribly real life. Mostly, though, it is an inquiry into the mysteries of other people
THE SECRET OF KELLS directed By Tomm Moore
MAY 14 - MAY 27
Do not miss the highly anticipated new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Triplets of Belleville! Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Features the voices of Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter, In Bruges), Mick Lally, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney. |
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THE SECRET OF KELLS directed by Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey
OPENS MAY 7
Don’t miss the new Academy Award-nominated masterpiece from the producers of KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS and TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE! Magic, fantasy, and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. |
SMALL CHANGE directed by François Truffaut (1976)
MAY 28 - JUNE 3
A comedy, a romance, a mystery -- in a word: childhood -- captured, distilled, and transformed effortlessly from sketchbook to symphony in the hands of a master named Francois Truffaut.
The film offers vibrant vignettes of young people in a small town in the French countryside as they go about their routines: going to school, horsing around, going to the movies, dealing with their parents, falling in love, and so on. These small moments add up to a gentle, honest, and comic portrait of childhood itself. Complete information.
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN directed by André Téchiné (2009)
May 21 & 22
Catherine Deneuve, Émilie Dequenne (Rosetta), and Michel Blanc star in the new film from master French filmmaker André Téchiné (Wild Reeds). Inspired by a true 2004 case in which a young Gentile French woman claimed to have been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, the movie is less an exposé of this scandal than a subtle character study of a needy young woman and her cool and somewhat detached single mother.
TOWN CALLED PANIC directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar (2009)
May 28 & 29
Three plastic toys—a cowboy, an Indian, and a horse—embark on a series of surreal, unsynopsizable adventures in this full-length puppetoon based on a popular Belgian TV series. With a plot that encompasses everything from a shipment of 50 million bricks and a journey to the center of the earth to alternate universes and a giant robot penguin, the movie could be described as Toy Story on acid. It was also the first stop-motion animated feature to be an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN directed by André Téchiné (2009)
MAY 7 - MAY 20
Based on a true-life girl-who-cried wolf incident, The Girl on the Train tells the story of a young woman who claimed to be the victim of an anti-Semitic attack on a Parisian train in 2004, only to be exposed as a liar when her tale failed to add up. The story became a frenzied media sensation in France, but the acclaimed filmmaker André Techiné (Wild Reeds) has used the incident to explore the mysteries of human behavior while subtly addressing the thorny social issues that the event addressed
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LOURDES directed by Jessica Hausner (2009)
MAY 21 - JUNE 3
The slyly humorous, affecting and thoughtful Lourdes tells the story of Christine, a young woman confined to a wheelchair who makes a pilgrimage to the city of Lourdes—along with thousands of others—hoping for a miraculous recovery. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle and the leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this newfound chance for happiness while her cure provokes envy and admiration.
Wexner Center for the Arts |
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CONSUMING CLAY: PORCELAIN WARES FROM THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTRUIES
THROUGH JULY 10 |
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Value, whether monetary or sentimental, actual or perceived, is not static and can be determined by a complex range of variables. Connected to social and class status, porcelain wares from the 18th and 19th centuries were once tangible signifiers of wealth, position and power in Western Europe and the United States. Tables were piled with lavish settings of hand-decorated, fine porcelain—an ostentatious practice that related to ceremony, consumption, ritual and cultural identity. Emphasizing the relationship between consumer practices and luxury goods, Consuming Clay features historical tableware and decorative objects from premier Western European manufacturers such as Sèvres, Meissen, Höchst and Belleek, as well as Chinese export ware.
Art Museum – Miami University - Gallery 3 |
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IMPRESSIONISM & POST IMPRESSIONISM
THROUGH JUNE 20
Prints created between roughly 1860 and 1900 by French and Northern European artists, including Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection will be featured.
The Toledo Museum of Art - Hitchcock Gallery |
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WHISTLER: INFLUENCES, FRIENDS AND THE NOT-SO-FRIENDLY
THROUGH MAY 30
Featuring works on paper from the Toledo Museum of Art’s renowned collection, the exhibition highlights the talents of the iconic American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), positioning his work within the context of his contemporaries, influences, friends, and enemies. |
As a printmaker, Whistler was a leading personality among all modern etchers. His name is often linked with Rembrandt’s as the most experimental, accomplished, and refined masters of the etched line. In addition to more than 60 prints by Whistler, works by Felix Braquemond, Henri Fantin-Latour, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Charles Émile Jacque, Alphonse Legros, Charles Meryon, and Joseph Pennell will be exhibited. IMAGE: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903) Nocturne. Lithotint, 1878. Museum purchase, 1923.75.
The Toledo Museum of Art - Works on Paper Galleries |
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