As part of the Newport Music Festival's winter concert series, French harpist Coline-Marie Orliac will team up with Eric Ruske for a beautiful program of horn and harp. The program will include works by Strauss, Satie, Gounod and Massenet.

Coming in early 2015, Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe joins BEMF's GRAMMY-nominated series of opera recordings. Receiving rave reviews after its first performance at the 2011 Festival, this opera was recorded in 2013 in Bremen, Germany, and features Karina Gauvin and Philippe Jaroussky in the leading roles.
The BEMF and Jaroussky will also tour Europe with Niobe throughout January, with four stops scheduled in France. Tell your friends across the pond about this exceptional collaboration!

Rediscover France's most celebrated painter through the eyes of an eminent American artist, Ellsworth Kelly. The Clark Art Institute presents this one-of-a-kind art exhibit, following Ellsworth Kelly's inspirational journey through Claude Monet's works. It compares and contrasts the two artists' works, allowing viewers to discover their respective beauty in synchrony and distinction.

Among the many family-friendly films that the 12th Annual Family Film Festival in Belmont has selected to show from January 16 to 19, be sure not to miss Belle and Sebastian, Nicolas Vanier's heart-warming story of the friendship between a six-year-old orphan and a wild dog during WWII.

In homage to Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, the father of African cinema, ArtsEmerson will show Sembene's Black Girl (La Noire de... in French), a 1966 feature film widely considered to be the first Sub-Saharan African film by an African filmmaker to receive international attention. The screening will be preceded by an introduction and followed by a Q&A.

This event is free and open to all (limited seating).

In this groundbreaking exhibition, with works from all across the globe, artists explore and expand the traditional boundaries of typography by integrating elements of animation, craft, performance, nanoscience, and graffiti into their work. Especially noteworthy is the work of French artists Jerome Corgier, Evan Roth and Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, the exhibition "Over There!" at the Museum of Fine Arts features fifty wartime posters from the United States and Europe, including select examples from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia.

A related exhibition, "Over Here: WWI Posters from Around the World," is on view at the Boston Athenæum through February 1, 2015. It features 44 framed posters displaying striking but rarely seen images from one of the most critical moments in world history.