In celebration of the new website www.frenchsculpture.org featuring a comprehensive catalogue of French sculpture from 1500 to 1960 in American public collections, Laure de Margerie and panelists from the project’s international partner institutions will share stories of favorite works drawn from the website's database.

"Becoming Modern: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings" is on view this month at the Menil Collection. This exhibition celebrates the remarkable holdings of French drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum and the Menil Collection, institutions with an ongoing collaboration to foster meaningful conversation about drawing.

Considered one of the most promising European artists of his generation Loris Gréaud presents "The Unplayed Notes Museum" at Dallas Contemporary. This large-scale multi-media installation is one of the most eagerly watched openings of the season.

Sponsored by the Institut Français

The exhibition "Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso: Birth of Cubism" marks the beginning of the "Modern Masters Series: Highlights from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum", a project made possible by a two-year-long collaboration between the El Paso Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.

Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film, "Timbutku" directed by Abderrahmane Sissako is screening in Texas and Oklahoma starting this month.

Dallas - Landmark Magnolia
Houston - Sundance Cinemas
Fort Worth - Fort Worth Museum of Art - To be announced
Oklahoma City - February 26 & 28  - Oklahoma City Museum of Art

"Mommy" by Xavier Dolan is Canada's official submission to the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner. A passionate widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son.

The Austin Film Society presents "Upside-Down and Inside-Out: Five Encounters with Jacques Rivette." The film series ends with "Le Pont du Nord" on February 5th.

"Two Days, One Night" directed by the Dardenne brothers is a must see! Sandra (Oscar nominated for Best Actress Marion Cotillard, ) works in a small solar-panel factory in a Belgian industrial hamlet. While on leave following a nervous breakdown, her co-workers vote to receive their yearly bonus in exchange for their recovering colleague’s dismissal.

"Entropya" directed by Yassine Marco Marroccu is screening as part of the Houston African Film Festival. The movie will be screened in French at the Houston Museum of African American Culture.

Considered one of the most beautiful and influential movies ever made, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" is based on a screenplay by influential writer Marguerite Duras. The masterpiece chronicles a brief relationship in post-World War II Japan between a French actress and a Japanese architect. The film screens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Film lovers from around the world have access to the complete selection from the world’s first online festival of French cinema. The 5th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival, created by UniFrance films runs until February 16th, 2015.

"Une Place sur La Terre" directed by Fabienne Godet is screening as part of the Alliance Française Ciné-club. Please RSVP here: admin@afdallas.org
Sponsored by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate in Houston and the Institut Français

Firmly established as one of the Museum’s most popular annual film series, Five Funny French Films delights and intrigues with innovative approaches to humor. This fifth edition includes five weddings, a funeral, political intrigue, and much more!

The Texas Christian University is one of the lucky recipient of the Tournées Festival grant. A program of FACE, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, it brings French cinema to American college and university campuses. All screenings are free and open to the public.

The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville is organizing its Tournées French film festival with a program of five contemporary French language films and a classic film. All screenings are free and open to the public.

Albertine Books in French and English, a new reading room and bookshop opened in September 2014 at the French Embassy in New York with 14,000 titles from 30 French-speaking countries. An accompanying online shop albertine.com has just launched and offers the most comprehensive selection of French-language books and English translations in the United States.

Curated French Corners sections in independent bookstores across the United States also offer a taste of French literature throughout the country. In houston, come and visit our "French Corner" at Brazos Bookstore.

The Midland County Public Library is hosting world-renowned picture book author and illustrator Hervé Tullet for the Texas premiere of his exhibition, “Mix it Up.” Coming from Paris, France, Hervé Tullet will be in Midland to discuss the inspiration for his beloved children's books. Tullet and the students will examine color and shape as they collaborate to create a giant mural 4-6 p.m February 12 at the Centennial branch. The exhibit will be on view until April 17, 2015.

To celebrate the publication of the first in a four-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia, scholar and Picabia authority William A. Camfield, professor emeritus of art history at Rice University, will discuss his magnum opus and sign copies at the Menil Collection in Houston. Camfield will speak briefly at 7:30 p.m.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promote French and francophone literature and encourage English translations of French fiction and non-fiction. The application process for 2015 grants session - French Voices Awards, Hemingway Grants and Acquisition of Rights program - is open online at www.facecouncil.org/applications

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 Jérôme Bel's performance "Cédric Andrieux" and video "Véronique Doisneau".

This month, we developed a playlist around the theme of Freedom. Follow "Liberté" on Spotify @frenchculturesfest 
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Dr. Roy Howat, musicologist specialized in French music and pianist, Keyboard Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Music, London will present the lecture "Baudelaire, Fauré, Debussy, and the flowering of French mélodie." The lecture-recital will include musical excerpts played by Dr. Howat on the piano.

Presented by the Center for Translation Studies and School of Arts & Humanities at the University of Dallas, Texas

Each year, we celebrate "la Francophonie" during the month of March in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. If you wish to participate, volunteer or want to organize an event in March 2015, please write to: frenchculturesfestival@gmail.com. You are all invited to the FCF kick-off concert on March 13 at Discovery Green Park in Downtown Houston!

And don't forget to like our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/frenchculturesfestival and follow us on Instagram @frenchculturesfestival

For 7 years, the North Texas American Association of French Teachers has organized its annual Fête Française, which allows all high school students of French to compete against their peers in academic and non-academic events. Competition categories include poetry, prose, sight reading, drama, music, dance and art.

Supported by the Cultural Service at the French Consulate in Houston