This lecture by Mark Rothko biographer, Annie Cohen-Solal places Rothko in the contexts of a Europe devastated by wars and anti-Jewish violence, and America’s postwar cultural scene, to tell the unlikely story of how a young immigrant became a crucial, transforming agent of the art world—a man whose legacy prevails to this day.

Following French artist Hugo Capron's Summer residency in Dallas at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Meadows School of Art, American artist Melissa Tran is going to Dijon, France for two months. This exchange program is organized in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Dijon, le Consortium, FRAC Bourgogne and SMU.

Swiss artist, Simone Holliger will be in residency at Fielwork: Marfa, a program lead by the School of Fine Arts of Nantes and HEAD Geneva. Her drawings are both the vestiges and the future of new instruments. They act as measuring tools and weights, bringing into balance the space over which they preside.

The Houston Center for Photography presents its 33rd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition. This year's selction by Russell Lord, curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art includes French photographer Pascal Amoyel.

This course takes students on an artistic journey to Paris, its arts scenes, and museums. Parisian museums have long functioned not merely as sites for the preservation and presentation of art, but also as emblems of national identity, reservoirs of collective memory, and centers for public education. Taught by Anna Tahinci at the Glassell School of Art, the course "Museums in Paris: Behind the Scenes" is still open for registration.

This new publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia’s early pieces as an Impressionist in the 1890s to his Cubist and abstract paintings of 1912–14, which constitute landmarks in the history of modern art.

The Blanton Museum of Art presents "Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World:, an exhibition of eighty paintings by Realist-Impressionist painter Francisco Oller and his contemporaries. The exhibition also features paintings by nineteenth-century masters including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth presents a selection of French masterpieces from Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Cézanne in the exhibition "Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland".

This immersive multi-media installation is a collaboration between Houston-based filmmaker, interactive multimedia producer, and community activist Carroll Parrott Blue, French composer and multimedia artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière and New York-based composer and computer interactive artist George Lewis on view at the Contemporary Museum of Arts, Houston.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy offer financial aid to American universities, libraries, bookstores, publishing houses, and other venues wishing to host French and Francophone authors for readings, signings and lectures.

We are pleased to welcome the following three writers in Texas in September and October:
- Pierre Lemaitre
- Fiston Mwanza Mujila
- Marc Dugain

Born in Paris in 1951, Pierre Lemaitre has established himself as a standout writer of the French contemporary roman noir genre. In 2013, Lemaitre was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious liteary award for "Au revoir là-haut". The English translation "The Great Swindle" will be released in the United States by MacLehose Press.
Don't miss Pierre Lemaitre at Brazos Bookstore in Houston on September 24th at 7pm.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila's writings have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Gold Medal at the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut as well as the Best Text for Theater in 2010. His first novel "Tram 83" was a French Voices 2014 grant recipient. The English translation will be published by Deep Vellum (Dallas).
Don't miss Fiston Mujila, his translator Roland Glasser and publisher Will Evans at:
- Brazos Bookstore in Houston on September 29th at 7pm
- Malvern Books in Austin on September 30th at 7pm
- Wild Detectives in Dallas on October 1st at 7pm

Born in Senegal in 1957, Marc Dugain worked in finance before becoming an entrepreneur in aeronautics. He began his literary career at 35 with "La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers’ Ward), a book inspired by his grandfather's experience during WWI which was adapted into a film in 2001 by François Dupeyron. Marc Dugain received numerous literary prizes in France. He will take part in the Texas Book Festival in Austin.

Psychedelic music isn’t defined by stylistic tropes; such expectations would suffocate a genre dedicated to pushing boundaries. Instead, psych rock is defined by an attitude — a commitment to taking artistic risks and forging new sonic frontiers. Listen to our French Psychedelic Playlist HERE.

Comprised of dynamic French DJ/Producers Charly, Pitchin and Julien, Dirtyphonics conquered festival crowds at UMF Miami, EDC Las Vegas, TomorrowWorld, Mysteryland, and so many more. Welcome them to Arkansas at Backwoods Music Fest.

Often referred to as “The Hendrix of the Sahara”, Vieux Farka Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali in 1981. He is the son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré.

Don't miss DJ set by French born born Miami resident Cedric Gervais, one of the most sought after House DJs & Electronic Music Producers in the World today.

Hugo Pierre Leclercq, better known by his stage name Madeon, is a 21 years old French electronic music producer from Nantes, France. He will be touring the US this Fall with various stops in Texas.

Raised in an atmosphere bursting with passion for music, LOUISAHHH!!! (born Louisa Pillot) started singing and playing instruments at an early age before discovering a passion for DJing.

Following the release of 2011′s critically acclaimed Weather, Meshell Ndegeocello announces the release of her 10th studio album, "Pour une âme souveraine" (For a sovereign soul), a dedication to fellow musician Nina Simone.

In this stunning hand-drawn animated satire that inspired the creation of Studio Ghibli, the ridiculous king of a totalitarian cloud kingdom chases his love interest, a young shepardess, who endeavors to escape with a chimneysweep. Directed by Paul Grimault.

At the Lycée Léon Blum in Créteil, on the outskirts of Paris, a teacher decides to make her weakest 10th grade class sit a national history exam. The students will be transformed by this experience. Directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. Presented by the Alliance Française of Tulsa.
 

Presented by the Video Association of Dallas and the Alamo Drafthouse DFW, the French New Wave Showcase includes the following listings every Saturdays thoughout September: Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard, Jules et Jim by François Truffaut, L'Année Dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais, Cléo de 5 à 7 by Agnes Varda and La Jetée by Chris Marker. 

Set in a WWI prisoner-of-war camp and partly based on the director’s own experiences, this powerful film is a brilliant meditation on class, chivalry, heroism and humanity. Directed and co-written by Jean Renoir.

Watch a conversation with French slam artist, poet, writer, and film director Abd al Malik about his literary work and autobiographical feature film Qu’Allah bénisse la France !, winner of the FIPRESCI Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. For more podcasts, go to Albertine Books in French and English.