Pompidou Centre exhibits "too crude" sculpture rejected by Louvre
Paris's Pompidou Centre of modern art has agreed to exhibit a sculpture appearing to depict a man having sex with an animal after the Louvre judged it "too crude" to show on the Tuilieries Gardens.
View ArticleSicilian bard Pippo Pollina sings of hope and justice
An exciting live performer, poet, and one of the music world’s great humanists, Italy's Pippo Pollina recently played four dates in France. RFI met him at Les Trois Baudets in Paris where he talked...
View ArticleLiving legend Aznavour to attend Wong Kar Wai’s Lumière Award Ceremony
The Lumière film classics festival has invited 93-year-old entertainer Charles Aznavour as a special guest at Friday's award ceremony for Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai. It will serve as a warm-up for...
View ArticleFeelin’ good!
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the recent lunar occultation. There’s “On This Day”, some great music, and of course - the new quiz question. Just click on...
View ArticleWong Kar-Wai dedicates French award to 'my wife, my muse'
Receiving the 2017 Lumière award for lifetime achievement in the French city of Lyon on Friday, Chinese director Wong Kar-wai dedicated the honour to his wife, whose name, he pointed out, is the first...
View ArticleDuchamp's Mona Lisa with a moustache sold for 632,500 euros
A picture by French artist Marcel Duchamp depicting the Mona Lisa with a moustache and beard sold for 632,500 euros at an auction in Paris on Saturday. It was part of a sale of collection of surrealist...
View ArticleNew noise levels giving French clubbers headaches
France's superstar DJ Laurent Garnier banded together with the country's top nightclubs on Monday to sound the alarm about new noise restrictions imposed on music venues.
View ArticleForgotten Rodin's Napoleon found in New Jersey
Napoleon Bonaparte and Auguste Rodin are both household names in their own right. But a bust of the French emperor created by the master sculptor faded into oblivion in an American town, only to be...
View ArticleAndré Derain arrives at Paris' Centre Pompidou
André Derain is an artist who is a small fish in a big pond. He had the fortune to befriend Maurice de Vlaminck with whom he became known as one of the "Fauve" painters, depicting nature and figures in...
View ArticleBeauty and the Dogs tells not-so-pretty Tunisian rape tale
In this month’s Cinefile, Rosslyn Hyam’s two guests have both made films about feisty women characters. Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania's feature film Beauty and the Dogs, is about a rape case...
View ArticleLouvre launches crowdfunding campaign to buy antique prayer book
The Louvre museum in Paris is calling on the public to help bring back one of the French Renaissance’s greatest decorative works of art.
View ArticleThousands of Proust letters to be posted online
A trove of Marcel Proust's correspondence is to be digitized and put online for free, with the first batch of letters timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, organizers...
View ArticleFrench world music festival launches "Music from here" prize
To mark its 20th anniversary, the Villes des musiques du monde festival near Paris has launched the Prix des Musiques d'Ici (Music from here) to promote sounds and rhythms that have migrated into...
View ArticleSix degrees of separation
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Botswana’s demonyms. There’s reflections on our small world, some great music, and of course - the new quiz question. Just...
View ArticlePolanski to face protests in Paris after #Metoo demos across France
#Metoo protests in France on Sunday attracted several hundred people, mostly women, as the fallout from the scandal over Hollywood moghul Harvey Weinstein continues. And French feminists were set to...
View ArticleProust the PR man revealed in rare Swann's Way sale
A rare edition of Marcel Proust's novel Swann's Way was sold at auction for more than half a million euros in Paris on Monday. Attached to it were hand-written letters by the author that showed he paid...
View ArticleParis kids' film festival breaks down generational barriers
Cinema can break down the barriers between generations. Mon Premier Festival, or My First Festival opened last week with Rachid Hami's La Mélodie (The Orchestra Class) and ended last night with a...
View ArticleIs 'inclusive writing' endangering the French language?
A textbook for primary school pupils has sparked a debate in France about gender in the French language. It uses “inclusive writing”: a way of including both masculine and feminine forms of a noun.
View ArticleThe idealists won!
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. There’s an RFI Listener Bouquet, some great get-up-and-dance music, and of course - the new quiz...
View ArticleNazi-themed works straddling fact and fiction win French book prizes
France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, has been awarded to 49-year-old writer Eric Vuillard for a book on German society's complicity on the Nazis' rise to power, while another prize,...
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