Haydar Hamdi: voice of Tunisia's free youth sings of broken dreams
After taking an active part in the so-called Jasmine Revolution in 2011, Tunisian musician Haydar Hamdi moved to Paris and formed an oriental dub band with four friends. They've forged an original...
View ArticleThe new Viva Villa! Festival showcases works from French overseas art residences
Viva Villa! is a new arts festival happening in Paris, and "made in" elsewhere. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams reports this week on an event where the works of artists from France, as well as from other...
View Article'Paris is Cinema' - French films in France, with subtitles
A new film festival in Paris opens this week which aims to give foreigners in Paris the full French movie experience. In this week's Arts in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets Séamas McSwiney. He set up...
View ArticleIranian soprano Darya Davdar still waiting for new musical dawn
Darya Dadvar was the first Iranian woman to perform on stage as a soloist in Iran, 24 years after the Islamic revolution. She loves her country but has made Paris her home. Blessed with a silky soprano...
View ArticleParis's Pompidou Centre to open Brussels museum
Paris's world-famous modern art museum, the Pompidou Centre, is to open a branch in Brussels in a building currently used as a Citroën garage. The opening is planned for 2020.
View ArticleArt exhibitions in Paris, September 2016 - February 2017
No doubt about which show will pack in the crowds in Paris this season – René Magritte at the Pompidou can count on a large fan base that goes beyond the cognoscenti. As can Oscar Wilde, whose personal...
View ArticleChoreographer Lucinda Childs is the focus of Paris Autumn Festival
In this week's Arts in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets US dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. She's one of the Portraits in the Paris Autumn Festival, which has a special focus on her long career.
View ArticleAlsarah & The Nubatones
Sudanese-born singer songwriter Alsarah heads the band The Nubatones. They sing in Arabic, are inspired by Nubian "songs of return" but have coined their sound East African Retropop. Alsarah talks to...
View ArticleFrance pays tribute to Polish film giant Andrzej Wajda
French ministers and cultural figures paid tribute Monday to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, who died on Sunday at the age of 90.
View ArticleNatalia M King - jazz, blues and Black Lives Matter
American singer-songwriter and guitarist Natalia M King has made France her home but her latest album BlueZzin' T'il Dawn sees her embracing the jazz and blues of her native Brooklyn. She talked to RFI...
View ArticleDeneuve dedicates Lumière achievement award to farmers
Veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve’s star shone again Friday night at the Lumière film festival. Deneuve, whose career spans more than 50 years, was awarded the coveted life-time achievement...
View ArticleAbbey St Riquier, a mediaeval home for digital language
In this week's Arts in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams visits the Abbey St Riquier, a little-known mediaeval site in the north of France in the Somme valley, which has a very significant place in French...
View ArticleUS racial segregation at Quai Branly's 'Color Line' exhibition
The Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris is hosting an exhibit of African-American artworks created over the last 150 years. Many of the artists are unknown, or badly known, especially outside of...
View ArticleUS-based IBMF slaps Paris with body beat
Body music or body percussion has become a performance genre in the past ten years and it now has its own annual festival which travels the world. For the first time, the International Body Music...
View ArticleBatuk's pan-African house music
Batuk are a South African collective with a post-modern approach to spreading pan-Africanism. Currently touring Europe with music from their debut album Musica de Terra, RFI caught up with them at the...
View ArticleAmerican collectors donate 350-million-euro collection to Paris's Orsay museum
Paris's Musée d'Orsay is to receive a massive donation of 600 works of 19th- and 20th-century art, including impressionists, modernists and the Nabis group of painters. The gift by US collectors...
View ArticleHollande honours US couple after €350m art donation
French President François Hollande has awarded the Commander's grade of the Légion d'Honneur to an American couple who donated 350 million euros worth of artwork to Paris's Musée d'Orsay.
View ArticleParis' Pompidou Centre celebrates Iranian filmmaker Panahi
A retrospective of the works of Iranian filmaker and photographer Jafar Panahi is running at the Pompidou Centre in Paris until November 13. In 2011, a court in Iran banned him from making films for 20...
View ArticleStep right up and feast your ears: the Sound Kitchen is open!
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Solar Impulse. There’s “On This Day”, some great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo...
View ArticlePicasso widow accused of hiding art at electrician's theft trial
A retired electrician who kept nearly 300 Pablo Picasso artworks in his garage in France for almost four decades has claimed the artist's widow may have wanted to keep the works from other members of...
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