Paris In New York

Juliette Binoche...everywhere in New York this month !

She will be dancing, exhibiting paintings, releasing a book and more. Many events will offer the american public an unique opportunity to discover a new facet of this multi-talented artist.

If you are nostalgic of Paris, don't miss the opening of the last movie from Cedric Klaplisch, "Paris", a kaleidoscopic letter to the City of Lights and its inhabitants, on Friday at the IFC Center.

From 09/10 to 10/09, 58 of her ink-wash portraits of herself and her co-stars of various films and poems will be on display at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy at 972 5th Avenue. Admission Free. From 1pm to 6pm.

Beginning of September, she also presented her book "Portraits. In-Eyes" at Barnes and Noble

From September 15 to September 26, she will be performing with Akram Khan a contemporary piece for two "In-l & Jubilations" at the BAM. Artist talk tonight.

And BAMCinematek will present Rendez-Vous With Juliette Binoche, a 14-film retrospective.

September 19, Damage

September 20, Flight of the Red Balloon

September 21, Blue, with Q&A and book signing with Juliette Binoche

September 22, Family Life

September 24, Mauvais Sang

September 25, Cache

September 26, Code Unknown

September 27, Summer Hours....

September 28, English Patient

September 29, Mary

September 30, Disengagement

Napoleon III and Paris at the Met

This dossier photography exhibition will focus on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city’s narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards and grand public works that still define the urban landscape of the French capital. The exhibition will feature portraits of the Imperial family and also include works in other media from various departments of the Museum.

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum until September.

 

One of the marvels at the Morgan Library

The Prayer Book of Claude de France is a tiny, jewel-like manuscript that was made for Claude (1499–1524) around 1517, the year she was crowned queen of France. Her coat of arms appears on three different folios. The book is richly illustrated: the borders of each leaf are painted, front and back, with 132 scenes from the lives of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints. The manuscript  and a companion Book of Hours also made for the queen (in a Paris private collection) were illuminated by an artist who was given the nickname Master of Claude de France after these two volumes. Active in the French city of Tours during the first quarter of the sixteenth century, the artist worked in a style that can be characterized as the pinnacle of elegance. The colors of his delicate palette are applied in tiny, seemingly invisible brushstrokes. Only about a dozen manuscripts painted by the artist survive. 

In 1514, at age fourteen, Claude de France was married to François d'Angoulême (1494–1547), who became King François I in 1515. The marriage was political: Claude was duchess of Brittany, a duchy the king wanted to keep under his control. Short and hunched, Claude still managed to provide seven children (her second son became King Henry II) in ten years of marriage before dying of exhaustion at age twenty-four. 

Also viewable on this Web site is the Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne. Anne (1477–1514) was Claude's mother. She was queen of France twice, first as the wife of King Charles VIII and then as the wife of King Louis XII, who was Claude's father. Anne commissioned her book around 1495 for her son the dauphin, Charles-Orland (who died of smallpox shortly thereafter). Anne's manuscript was illuminated by Jean Poyer, a leading Tours illuminator in whose workshop the Claude Master is thought to have trained. These two codices thus juxtapose a mother's book with her daughter's and the work of one illuminator with that of his protégé. 

Sketching with wine and a French chat - Saturday March 28 - 6-10pm

@ Gilles Larrain Studio

95 Grand street

www.ArtSalonParty.com

Holidays Gifts with a French Flair- Le Marché de Noël

Shop and meet French people at Le Marché de Noël.

Tomorrow Friday 12th and Saturday 13rd, Accueil New York, a French Association, organizes  a traditional Christmas market for the French expatriates.

Don't miss the hand-made fabrics and apparels from Louda Collection. They are used by some of the most prestigious Parisian fashion houses.

10% of sales will be benefit the Entraide Francaise, whose mission is to provide support to French visitors or residents in difficulties

Location:

@louda Popova and Gilles Larrain

95 Grand Street 

Cash only

Sonya Sklaroff: a New York artist at Drouot Montaigne

"Last Light" by Sonya Sklaroff was sold during the March 15th Auction "Tableaux Impressionnistes, Art Moderne et Contemporain", organized by E&VE Auction House at Drouot Montaigne - Paris

"Sonya Sklaroff is inspired by the urban landscape. From her studio in SoHo she captures the energy and character of New York City. Her paintings frequently include water towers, fire escapes, street lamps, and other seemingly mundane elements of the NYC infrastructure. However, these structures are just one aspect of her paintings-- at the core of her work is a strong interest in abstraction. Sonya challenges herself with different methods of composition, contrasting elements of light and dark, complementarycolors, and negative space".
To read more about her, go to www.myartspace.com, or to www.sonyaslkaroff.com

Art Agents : G&O Art
New York - 347.739.8366 www.goartonline.com Paris - 06.20.73.11.09

Water Tower and Lamp Post, oil on panel, 30x30

Jose Van Gool's Reveries... an ode to femininity

Just few days left to see the colorful paintings of José van Gool’s .

The exhibition organized by G&O Art show the relationship between color and movement. All paintings follow, one to the next, a certain pattern. A solitary dancer, a pair of dancers, or a group of three or four are always the presumed focus of the composition. These subjects are women, strong
women, with coal black hair. The red dresses they wear, revealing brief stretches of marble-
carved shoulder, neck, and arm, suggest emotional music, a passionate sound that calls for
vigorous movement. But these paintings inhabit a movement unique to van Gool, one she
summons up through her dramatic charge of color.

José Van Gool was born the fifteen of November 1945 in Baarle Hertog (Belgium). In 1968 she
moved to Amsterdam (Netherlands) and has been living and working there since. After one year
at the Rietveld Academy, she spent 5 years at the Van Gogh Museum workshop.

The Corning Gallery at Steuben Glass
667 Madison Avenue @ 61St - Lower level, New York City
Mon - Sat, 10am - 6pm

LAST DAY: MARCH 21, 2008

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Embroideries by French artist Mireille Vautier

Mireille Vautier uses fragile media such as plastic bags and creates complex shapes and patterns that evoke both the intricacies of the body and the fragility of the vessel.

Mireille Vautier writes “The human body is my main source of inspiration. Its inside and outside, its wounds and its vivid memory; skeleton, organs, ex-votos, precious jewelry protected by the skin....The human body is a relic, a base for work dealing with memory.”

She graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1986 and has exhibited works on paper, glass as well as her embroideries in numerous exhibitions across France. “Embroidered” will be the artist’s first one-person exhibition in the United States.

From February 14th through March 23rd

at Safe-T-Gallery in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn

Opening reception on Valentine’s day February 14th, from 6 to 8 PM.

Safe-T-Gallery Inc.
111 Front St. Gallery 214
Brooklyn NY 11201
Phone: 718 782 5920

"I am drawing, therefore I am (well, I try !)"...Serge Bloch, an illustrator that makes you smile

You only have few more weeks to go and enjoy Serge Bloch's humor at the Living Art Gallery in Soho.
Serge Bloch is a contributing illustrator to several US publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, GQ, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Scholastic, National Geographic Magazine and France Amerique: "A page of newspaper is like a wall of a gallery that hundreds of thousands of people can visit without being afraid to enter. You can be on a train, in bed or on a bench in the sun. But the exhibit is ephemeral because the following day, it's gone. It's become a piece of paper used to dry your boots or to peel vegetables". Serge enjoys doing humorous work, and refers to it as a work of modest art. http://www.sergebloch.net

Exhibition : January 31rst- February 29.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday. Noon to 6 pm
or by appointment. Please call: 917 783 5737
Or email: livingwithart@mac.com

Living with Art gallery
153 Lafayette Street 7th floor
New York NY 10013

www.livingwithartusa.com

The Living Art Gallery managed by a couple of French people always have interesting artists to present. I highly encourage you to go check their exhibitions.

French Events in Manhattan, this summer

Eventhough, most of the French people living in NYC flee back to France for summer, you can still enjoy some very interesting French Events in town.

. La Comedie Francaise at the Lincoln Center : July 10 to 15th

Lincoln Center Festival 2007 will present La Comédie-Française, one of the world’s greatest theater companies, in the U.S. premiere of Les Fables de La Fontaine, directed by Robert Wilson. In Wilson’s visually striking interpretation, 19 of La Fontaine’s allegorical tales are brought to life by some of France’s finest actors. Wilson originally staged Les Fables de La Fontaine for performances at the Comédie-Française in 2004. When it was greeted with wide critical and public acclaim, the production was repeated in 2005. Featuring a company of 15 actors, Les Fables de La Fontaine revolves around the animal characters of the tales—lions, birds, foxes, and crows—with their parables of human behavior seen through the eyes of a 21st-century theatrical visionary. Performances: July 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
www.lincolncenter.org

. Bastille Day : sunday, July 15th. Noon to 6pm

On July 14, France celebrates Bastille Day and commemorates the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution. New York is joining in the celebration with some fun events for the whole family: petanque, pastis, accordeon, waiter's race, French Cancan...a Street Fair with French Flair organized by The Alliance Francaise and French Tuesdays.

On 60th street from Fifth to Lexington Avenue, everyone is invited to be French for a day...

http://www.bastilledayusa.com/

. Citroen Automobiles and Velosolex motorized Bicycles Tour around Manhattan on July 15th

Have fun to look as the famous "2CV" driving down the city. Meeting point at Riverside Drive south and 122th (Grants Tomb). The route

Don't miss on TV:

. Le Tour de France : July 7th to 29th

. "France Will Never Forget"
On June 30th at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, more than 3000 people will form a chain on the beach and write together on the sand "France will never forget. Thank you America"

Broadcast on TV on July 4th.