In the framework of the exhibition "Renoir: The Body, The Senses" on view though January 26, the Kimbell Art Museum presents this month a special programming around Renoir: free lectures (Why Renoir Matters: A Conversation on Nov. 15, Naked vs. Nude: Bodies and Bathers in Nineteenth-Century on Nov. 22), film screenings (A Day in the Country and The Little Match Girl on Nov. 10), as well as an adult drawing workshop on Nov. 20.

This fall, McNay visitors will have a special opportunity to view Mary Cassatt’s The Cup of Tea in Mary Cassatt’s Women. Joined by the McNay’s own suite of Cassatt’s well-known and beloved aquatints and other works on paper, The Cup of Tea, painted in 1880-1881 while the artist was living in Paris, is on loan exclusively to the McNay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mary Cassatt’s Women focuses on the artist’s images of the ordinary and often intimate moments from the daily lives of upper-middle class women like herself. The artist lived much of her adult life in France.

Luminaria's Contemporary Arts Festival will showcase Les Cent Visages (The Hundred Faces), an interactive video artwork that morphs as participants caress projected faces, created by French digital artists Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt.

Lasserre and met den Ancxt, also known under their artist name Scenocosme, mix art and digital technology to discover the substance of dreams, poetry, sensitivity, and delicacy. Techno-avant, their works are hybridizations of technology and the living world.

This winter, Discovery Green presents Paloma Sponsored by PNC Bank, a temporary site-specific public art exhibition featuring Paloma by Pitaya and Here and Now by Lina Dib. Commissioned by the Discovery Green Conservancy’s Public Art Committee, the two-part installation brings an immersive light and sound experience to the park’s Brown Promenade.

Paloma consists of 200 “origami” birds made from powder-coated aluminum. The suspended colorful sculptures will be illuminated by dynamic LED lights after dusk to create the illusion of flight. The work was conceived by Pitaya, a French creative studio founded in 2006 by David Lesort and Arnaud Giroud.

Gandhi Djuna, better known by his stage name Gims, is a French rapper, composer and producer. His music is influenced by hip-hop, dance music with pop and latino twists. Famous for more than a decade in France and Europe, Gims will be on tour in the U.S this month and will perform at the South Side Music Hall in Dallas, TX, on November 9. Get your tickets | Listen to his last album Transcendance.

 

French conductor Fabien Gabel, music director for the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and recently appointed music director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, is invited by the Houston Symphony to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and will share the stage with legendary, seven-time Grammy Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax.

Society for the Performing Arts presents Camille Thomas & Roman Rabinovich. French cellist Camille Thomas, the first cellist signed by Deutsche Grammophon in over 40 years, blends a brilliant command of her instrument with a rare musicality to offer truly memorable concerto and recital appearances. Whether she is playing Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Lalo, Haydn, Schumann or some neglected works that she champions, this award-winning cellist will deliver a passionate and compelling performance that will leave you awestruck with her talent.

Join the Rice University School of Humanities on November 15 in a panel discussion with famed French film director Euzhan Palcy.

Free event open to the public.

Cyrano, My Love (Edmond), directed by Alexis Michalik, opening on November 8 at Regal Arbor @ Great Hills ▪ Nofinofy, directed by Michaël Andrianaly, on November 17 at 1pm at Austin Film Society ▪ La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, on November 21 at 7pm at Austin Film Society ▪ I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous), directed by Gaspar Noé, on November 22-23 at Austin Film Society.

Frankie, directed by Ira Sachs and starring Isabelle Huppert, opening on November 22 at Circle Cinema in Tulsa, OK ▪ By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu), directed by François Ozon, on November 22-24 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art ▪ Synonyms (Synonymes), directed by Nadav Lapid, on November 29-30, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.