A public art book making event powered by onestar press from Paris, taking place at Texas Contemporary Art Fair. BOOK MACHINE (HOUSTON) is supported by the Texan French Alliance for the Arts and the Cultural Service at the French Consulate 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 2014 edition of the Texas Contemporary Art Fair features the works of many talented international artists, among whom French contemporary artists: Carolle Benitah, Lauren Marsolier, Stephen Dean, Studio Marlot & Chopard and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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

Closing party of the San Antonio Museum of Art "Matisse: Life in Color, Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art" exhibit. Movie screening, poetry slam, music and much more.

The exhibit "Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River" opened at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum on June 29. The exhibit will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from October 2014 to February 2015.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art is the opening venue for the national tour of "Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris".

MFAH presents an exhibit devoted to French photographer Charles Marville who documented the transformation of urban landscapes and Parisian architecture in the 19th century.

Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia's work created during his Summer residency, will be showcased at ArtPace San Antonio as part of a group exhibit.

More Real Than Reality Itself at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston features works by Laure Prouvost and Camille Henrot, two acclaimed French contemporary artists using video as a vehicle to communicate their unique understandings of the world.

This year's edition of FOTOSEPTIEMBRE, an international photography festival in San Antonio showcases the works of French artists Alban Lécuyer and Thibault de Puyfontaine.

The French Scupture Census is a national archival research project run jointly through CISM and the Nasher Sculpture Center in the United States and the Musée d’Orsay, INHA, Paris, the Musée Rodin and the Ecole du Louvre in France. The project will be launched online this month and counts 6326 sculptures by 601 artists in 280 locations; its final estimate is 20,000 sculptures.

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

French artist Sylvie Blocher will be presenting her new exhibition "The Color of Confusion" this Fall at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Born in France, Sylvie Blocher works from Ville de Saint Denis, at the periphery of Paris. In 1993 she authored the term Je Nous Sommes ( I We Are) and the idea of ULA (Universal Local Art). These concepts are made manifest in her continuing video series Living Pictures. In 1997 she and architect and urban planner François Daune founded the collaborative art and social action group Campement Urbain, which received a 2002 Evens Foundation International Prize for art/community collaboration.

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

September 14 - Musical Masterpieces Concert
October 17 - Café-Concert
November 30 - Belle Voix

Yelle, Tinariwen, Yann Tiersen and Patrick Bruel are coming to Texas this Fall:

Patrick Bruel
November 4 - Houston, TX - House of Blues

Yelle
November 6 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's
November 7 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
November 8 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues

Yann Tiersen
November 7 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
November 8 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest

Tinariwen
November 7 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
November 9 - Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest

You already know Daft Punk and Justice? Discover new emerging French bands in this French Fall playlist designed just for you!
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This Fall, the MFAH is honoring the master of French cinema and major contributor to the French New Vague movement, Mr. François Truffaut. Discover his take on childhood through the legendary "Les 400 Coups" and more.

Les 400 Coups - Sept 1, 5, 6 & 7
L'Enfant Sauvage - Sept 13 & 14
L'Argent de Poche - Sept 20 & 21

L'étrange couleur des larmees de ton corps (The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears) directed by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani is screening this month starting September 5 at the Drafhouse Cinema Mason Park.

The Alliance Française of Tulsa is organizing its Ciné-Club in collaboration with Circle Cinema, screening Mood Indigo based on the novel "L'Ecume des Jours" by Boris Vian. The movie is a true return to form for Michel Gondry, exploring the surreal landscape of emotion and imagination along the lines of his classics The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Around its new exhibit "Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio is programming its "Rendez-Vous in Paris" film series:

September 7 - Paris, je t'aime
October 5 - Moulin Rouge
December 7 - Gigi

As part of its Ciné Club, the Alliance Française in Dallas will screen a refreshing comedy "Camille Redouble"  at Richland College Dallas. A "Freaky Friday" à la française that will certaintly make you laugh.

Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas and the memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, "La Reine Margot" by Patrice Chéreau takes place in the late 16th century during a religious war between the ruling Catholics and the Protestant Huguenots.

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

Tournées Festival is a program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses. The goal is to facilitate the organization of festivals on campuses, thus nurturing the appreciation of French film. Don't miss this great opportunity to develop a French films festival with considerable financial and promotional support. Please visit the Tournées Film Festival application and read the brochure here.

If you organize your festival during the month of March, the Cultural Service at the French Consulate will be able to include it in the official calendar of its French Cultures Festival (mois de la francophonie) thus adding to its visibility.

Contact: mary.einbinder@diplomatie.gouv.fr or 713-985-3263

ALBERTINE is a reading room and bookshop that brings to life French-American intellectual exchange. A permanent venue for free events and debates, the new space will offer more than 14,000 contemporary and classic titles from over 30 French-speaking countries around the world. ALBERTINE is a project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

From four stunning and accomplished French women, discover a fresh and spirited take on what it really means to be a "Parisienne": how they dress, entertain, have fun and attempt to behave themselves.

The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history—Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers—are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respective sons—and their undying love for their mothers.Written with a delicate touch, Jewish Mothers Never Die reveals in tender, funny, and searing portraits how some women continue to live through their children—even after death.

Robert Zaretsky, author of A life worth living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning, discusses Camus’ legacy as a superb writer and “one of our age’s great moralists.”  Endlessly dedicated to his writers’ “duty to truth and freedom,” Camus believed in the importance of exposing essential issues in our society through the written word.  Zaretsky, in turn, sheds new light on the engaged writer’s oeuvre.

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!

Focus Danse is an event designed specifically to help foreign professionals discover the choreographic scene in France. Initiated in 2008, Focus Danse has been held three times with growing success, bringing together many professionals from 40 countries worldwide. For this fourth edition, Focus Danse wishes to extend even further its role as the international springboard for French dance. Organised by the Dance Biennale in Lyon and Onda, this edition offers professionals a four-day programme with 11 shows (including new works); platform sessions with artists; debates; and the presentation of European professional networks. The theme of this year’s event is openness. The programme blends the disciplines that address the question of movement – dance, circus, visual arts – and expands its geographical horizons. Pia Agrawal, Program Director at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts is invited to participate in the Focus Danse at the Lyon Biennale.