The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents the exhibition "Double Life" which features works by the internationally celebrated artists Jérôme Bel, Wu Tsang, and Haegue Yang. "Double Life" includes an immersive light and sculpture installation, a 16mm film loop, live dance presentations, and a newly-commissioned video work. Funded in part by FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance program.

The Book Department of the Cultural Services works to promote French and Francophone literature and to encourage English translations of French fiction and non-fiction. The deadline for French Voices Award, Hemingway Grant and Acquisition of Rights program is February 2015.

Last month, writer Alain Mabanckou was invited to Texas by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate in Houston for workshops and a public conversation at the University of Houston. Read his interview by Publishing Perspectives: Alain Mabanckou in Houston.

Published on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy (Soft Skull Press, December 9th, 2014) is writer Alain Mabanckou’s ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin’s life in context within the greater African diaspora. Translated into English by Sara Meli Ansari.

A visually incomparable treat and a brilliant homage to Hitchcock’s "Rear Window", this unusual accordion book opens in two directions, written and illustrated by Pascal Rabaté.

A microhistory of arguably the most important documentary ever made. Night and Fog by Sylvie Lindeperg is a 2012 French Voices Award winner. An engrossing account of Alain Resnais’s incomparable film, this book documents how a film that began as a cinematic spin-off of an educational exhibition became a significant step in the building of a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II.

A lecture on "Edouard Vuillard and Impressionism" by Kimberly Jones, Associate Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.

Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, sits down with Philippe de Montebello esteemed curator, professor, and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to discuss de Montebello’s storied career in the world of fine arts.

The Glassel Studio School of the MFAH presents a course on Auguste Rodin and his Cultural Impact, starting January 22nd. Taught by Anna Tahinci, Ph.D, it examines how French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) interacted with his contemporaries and why the origins of modern sculpture are traced to him.

Come January, European installationist/illusionist artist Loris Gréaud lands at the Dallas Contemporary in one of the most eagerly watched openings of the international spring season from January 18th to March 21st, 2015. Read the Papercity Magazine Article HERE.

Around its new exhibit "Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio is programming numerous events and film screenings. Check out Gigi by Vincente Minnelli starring the lovely Leslie Caron.

The movie "Joyeux Noël" directed by Christian Carion will be screened at 14 Pews in Houston. It is a 2005 French movie about the World War I Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish and German soldiers.

The event is free, open to the public and sponsored by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate, the German Consulate in Houston and the Goethe Institut.

The Alliance Française of Dallas Ciné-Club is screening "Les Petits Ruisseaux" a film by Pascale Rabaté. The screening is in French with English subtitles. An event sponsored by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate in Houston and the Institut Français.

Unifrance Films International and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy are pleased to offer a variety of recent French films not yet released in the United States to American colleges and universities. This selection, made by French sales agents and producers, represents the impressive diversity of contemporary French cinema.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and ARTE, the European cultural TV channel, are thrilled to offer ARTE Docs USA, a list of documentaries, for American Universities, non profit institutions, schools and Alliances françaises.

“1914: War and Remembrance” performed by the Houston Grand Opera features music by Fauré, Ives, Poulenc, Weill, and Horowitz. The program commemorates important anniversaries that have occurred in 2014: the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, the 140th anniversary of Ives’s birth, and the centennials of both the publication of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and the outbreak of the World War I.

Cécile performs unique interpretations of unknown and scarcely recorded jazz and blues compositions.

French-Produced American Jazz singer, Gregory Porter exploded onto the international music scene with his debut CD, Water in May of 2010, and has racked up a continuing stream of amazing accolades and awards. Gregory Porter is on the labels Blue Note and Universal Publishing for France.

Read this interview of Jean-Louis Agobet, French composer who was commissioned to write a piece for orchestra for the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. "Oculus" premiered in November 2014 and was part of the American Prelude.

If you haven't already discovered these emerging talents on the French music scene listen to this End of the year playlist!
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Film Premiere of Dance Salad Festival 2014 performances featuring Paris Opera Ballet's Etoiles Manuel Legris and Laetitia Pujol as well as a choreography by Jean-Philippe Dury.

Following a five-day research residency in Houston in April 2014 sponsored by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate in Houston, the Théâtres du Shaman presented the theatrical piece "Apollo" about spatial exploration at MC2 Grenoble and Les Subsistances – Lyon. The play will be presented in March 2015 at La Comédie de Saint Etienne.

The FUSED program offers grants to U.S. and French non-profit presenting institutions willing to pledge to a new bilateral dance project with possibilities for residencies, commissions, and/or touring the work of at least one choreographer/performer from the partner country. Co-productions between presenters are highly encouraged.

The French-American Fund for Contemporary Theater, is dedicated to fostering innovative artistic collaborations in the field of theater and to contributing to the dynamism of intercultural dialogue and exchange between France and the U.S.

From November 21 to November 23, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States presented its educational programs and opportunities at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Annual Convention and World Languages Expo.

Campus France just launched "France Alumni", the first online alumni network for foreign students who pursued their studies in France. Sign up HERE!

Chateaubriand Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) is a fellowship program offered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US. It targets outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who seek to engage in research in France, in any discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences.