Come and meet French author Lola Lafon at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. Lola is a singer, songwriter, performer and writer. She will be presenting her recently translated book published by Seagull books We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm.

In commemoration of the centennial of collage "Cut, Paste, Repair" a group show curated by Gabriela Rangel features new works by Kader Attia at the Sicardi Gallery.

The Dallas Museum of Art presents rarely seen works on paper by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Edouart Manet, Jacques-Louis David, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix as part of the "Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne".

A solo exhibition by French artist Mokha Laget featuring works with clay-based pigments on view at Gallery Sonja Roesch in Houston.

Monet, Renoir, Degas, Fantin-Latour... come discover these French impressionist painters at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Check out the museum's fall program of lectures, workshops, concerts and much more organized around the exhibit.
The McNay Museum and the Cultural Service at the French Consulate partner for the teacher workshop « DESSINER C'EST PARLER, using graphic arts in the French classroom» by Bernard Gruas, on October 7th.

The Menil exhibit "Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence" is the first international project to explore the resonance of Gandhi's ethics of non-violence "satyagraha" in the visual arts. French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's documenting of Gandhi's last years are major testimony of the period.

The Chinati Foundation in Marfa presents its annual Chinati Weekend featuring free art talks, exhibitions and musical events. French writer, critic and activist Elisabeth Lebovici willl give an exhibition talk on Sunday, October 12 at 11 am at the Ice Plant.

The exhibit "Faces of Impressionism" at the Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, explores the character and development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture from the late 1850s until the first years of the 20th century.

Rachel Cook, Associate Curator at Diverse Works, Houston is invited to participate in this year's Institut Français FOCUS Visual Arts program which includes the FIAC (International Art Fair of Contemporary Art in Paris), the Rennes Biennale (Les Ateliers de Rennes) and the opening of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

The shipwreck La Belle will be reconstructed live at the Bullock Museum in the special exhibit, La Belle: The Ship That Changed History. Showcasing the recently conserved hull timbers excavated from the 1686 French shipwreck in Matagorda Bay, this exhibition tells an incredible story through newly edited film footage, rare artifacts, touchpad interactives, and interviews with conservators. Even more extraordinary is the opportunity to watch live as experts reassemble a 600-piece timber jigsaw puzzle into the very vessel that changed history.

After a success at the Philbrook Museum of Art, the exhibit "Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River" is coming to Houston to explore Monet's take on the Seine River. An extensive lineup of activities for all ages is organized around the exhibit.

The first major American exhibition to consider the French floral still life across the 19th century will premiere at the Dallas Museum of Art this month.

Fieldwork: Marfa, the joint researcher-in-residence program designed by two leading European art academies, Les Beaux-Arts de Nantes and HEAD Genève in Marfa Texas welcomes a new resident this fall. Luc Mattenberger is a Swiss artist living and working in Geneva and Berlin, working essentially in the field of sculpture and installation.

The US tour of SOKO opens this October in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas! Discover her melodious rhythms and independent style which will undoubtedly enchant you. A performance not to be missed.

French mezzo-soprano Virginie Verrez and pianist Bretton Brown will perform a repertoire of French music while taking you on a journey through scenes of love, nature, and beauty. Join the Dallas Opera and the Dallas Museum of Art for an interdisciplinary partnership uniting the performing arts with the visual arts in a new and exciting way.

French electronic music sensation RONE (otherwise known as Erwan Castex) will be in Texas this October. El Paso, Houston and Austin get ready to welcome RONE!

The McNay Museum in San Antonio has reserved many surprises to the public around their "Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" exhibit.

October 17 - Café-Concert
November 30 - Belle Voix

The progressive French metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France will be in Austin and Dallas as part of their Mastodon US Tour.

Cédric Gervais, the Grammy winning French DJ living in Miami is coming back to Texas for the Something Wicked Festival. Get your tickets HERE!

Want to discover new and upcoming French artists? Follow us on Spotify @frenchculturesfest and listen to our Autumn Leaves playlist:

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Win two tickets for the exceptional performance of Yann Tiersen and Tinariwen at the WareHouse Live on November 7th. Like us on Facebook French Cultures Festival and WareHouse Live Facebook pages and stay tune for more details.

Susanne Theis, programming director at Discovery Green, Houston is invited to participate in a professional program dedicated to circus art in France. Organized by the Institut Français in partnership with the City of Toulouse and Région Midi-Pyrénées it allows foreign programmers and festival directors to discover the latest creations in the field of circus art.

CORE Performance Company is entering the next stage of its international exchange project with "Houston-Toulouse: A Creative Dialogue". This collaboration and cultural exchange with the dance company Association Manifeste from Toulouse, France culminates in the creation of a new choreographic work with ties to Toulouse and Houston, shares insight into the creative process, and offers public performances free of charge.
 

The MFAH's tribute to the legendary film critic and auteur continues with highlights from his middle and late periods. Truffaut died on October 21, 1984 and still remains one of the most celebrated French directors.

Claude Berri (Jean de Florette; Manon of the Spring) directed this vibrant yet elegiac contemporary romance, which is distinguished by a stellar cast lead by Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Serge Gainsbourg. Screening as part of the Movies Houstonians Love Film Series at the MFAH

Around its new exhibit "Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio its "Rendez-Vous In Paris" Film Series:

October 5 - Moulin Rouge (1952) by John Huston
December 7 - Gigi (1958) by Vincente Minnelli (based on the 1944 novella by Colette)

Described as “the most inspired thing I’ve seen [at Cannes]” by Grantland critic Wesley Morris, Bird People, from writer-director Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley), introduces the most unexpected and whimsical plot twist you are likely to see on screen this year. Far be it from us to spoil Ferran’s extraordinary coup de cinema – one that is achieved through a visual technique that defies easy explanation. Screening at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
 

The Austin Film Festival 2014 edition is screening the French film "Les frémissements du thé" (The Way of Tea) by Marc Fouchard as part of its short film series.

The MED Film Festival seeks to unite Mediterranean countries around a weekend of film screenings. Each Consulate sponsors a movie that is then screened as part of the festival. The Cultural Service at the French Consulate is opening this year's festival with "Marius" by Daniel Auteuil. All screenings are free and open to the public.

Screening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science of the 3D large format documentary film "D-DAY NORMANDY 1944."

On the occasion of the US release of Swim Little Fish Swim, French Culture met directors Ruben Amar and Lola Bessis to discuss the film and projects. Swim Little Fish Swim was presented at SxSW in 2013.

A surreal animated film directed by Stéphane Berla and Mathias Malzieu, full of fabulous steampunk inventions, unforgettable characters and fantastic adventures, eccentric characters and fantastic adventures. A film produced by Luc Besson and Virginie Silla.

The French Embassy offers financial aid to American institutions universities, libraries, bookstores, publishing houses, and other venues across the United States wishing to host French authors for readings, signings, and symposia. Check out the 10 authors available for booking in the United States right now!

The idiosyncrasies of language tell us a lot about a culture. In this delightful book, Clotilde Dusoulier, creator of the award-winning food blog Chocolate & Zucchini, delves into the history and meaning of fifty of the French language’s most popular food-related expressions

Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia is a thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures. This Prix Renaudot by Emmanuel Carrère was recently translated by John Lambert.

This collection of rare theatrical texts includes original translations—never before published in English—of ten monologues, three one-act plays, and twelve shorter dialogues, skits and burlesques drawn from Allais’s columns in such publications as Le Chat noir and L'Hydropathe. In addition to Doug Skinner’s fascinating notes on the texts, you’ll find an appendix of scarce photographs from the Paris production of "Le Pauvre Bougre et Le Bon Génie." This delightful compilation is proto-Dada at its most delicious!

Written by Rhonda Garelick, this cultural biography Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History will teach you as much about the designer's life as the historical period she lived because her life becomes  "even more compelling when studied in relationship to European history, especially the interwar period."

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy is pleased to announce the opening of Albertine Books in French and English, the first reading room and bookstore in New York devoted to works in French and in translation. Albertine offers the most comprehensive selection of French-language books and English translations with over 14,000 contemporary and classic titles from 30 French-speaking countries. Albertine will also be a venue for French-American and European-American debates and discussions. The bookstore was inaugurated this September by French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius.