Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia is currently in residency at ArtPace San Antonio. A group exhibit will showcase his work alongside the works of N’Gone Fall, Margaret Meehan (Dallas, TX) and Jungeun Lee (Frisco, TX) from July 10th to September 14th, 2014.

Sourced from the McNay’s rich holdings of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, this exhibition features works in all media, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and theatre designs.

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

San Antonio Museum of Art presents "Matisse: Life in Color, Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art" from June 14 to September 7, 2014.

The 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 the French photographer Charles Marville who documented the transformation of urban landscapes and Parisian architecture in the 19th century.

Lectures about French Photography and Art History are organized around this exhibit:
Sunday, July 13 I 2 PM History, Modernity, and Nature in Early French Photography presented by Malcolm Daniel
Sunday, July 13 I  3 PM Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris in the Age of Haussmann presented by Sarah Kennel
Sunday, August 17 I 2 PM Paris: Becoming the City of Light presented by Helga K. Aurisch

The Dallas Museum of Art presents a selection of 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" exhibit.

Every evening “San Antonio I The Saga” a captivating video art installation is on view on the magnificent façade of San Fernando Cathedral. Created by renowned French Artist, Xavier de Richemont, this 7,000-sq.-ft. projection with custom choreographed music in surround sound will narrate the historical discovery, settlement and development of San Antonio. The projection will continue until 2024.

On July 3 - 4, Barolosolo Cirkus Company from Carcassonne, France will perform at Discovery Green Park downtown as part of MARAVILLOSO! Contemporary circus annual series event.

North Texas audiences can see the conniving and clever quips in Moliere’s Tartuffe as the 43rd season of Shakespeare in the Park kicks off this summer. Tartuffe, a French classic, will run Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from June 25-July 18.

Les Misérables is playing at Dallas' Wyly Theatre, a musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the eponymous book by Victor Hugo.

Two French films have been selected for the 2014 Marfa Film Festival: Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo and Olivier Babinet's Life on Earth.

French movie "Je t'aime, je t'aime" directed by Alain Resnais is screening at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Austin Film Society this July.

AFS July 6 - July 7
MFAH July 18 - July 19

Featuring world-renowned actor Jean Reno and comic Michaël Youn "Comme un chef" is screening in Austin at the Arbor Regal Cinema.

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is programming its annual French Cinema Weekend to celebrate "Bastille Day" on July 14th. The film series will run from July 18th to July 20th.

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

On June 21st we created a "Fête de la Musique" playlist to celebrate music and upcoming French and francophone artists.
Make it your Summer playlist! Follow frenchfest and France Rocks on Spotify.
www.francerocks.com

David Guetta, the world famous Ibiza DJ, is coming to Texas for the second time this year! He performed this May at the Plano Suburbia Music Festival. You missed it? No excuse then for this Summer, come listen to him at El Paso's Sun City Music Festival!

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

Second Edition of "France and Its Empire Since 1870" written by Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman and Robert Zaretsky will be released in the United States on July 15th. Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation, one that has been shrouded in myths, many of its own making, "France and its Empire Since 1870" seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin them.

Join this month's Summer of Proust Book Club at Brazos Bookstore's second event. A freestyle conversation about one of the greatest masterpieces of French literature, Proust's "Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time."

JULY 16 I 7 PM

The Mausoleum of Lovers Journals 1976–1991 by Hervé Guibert translated by Nathanaël published by Nightboat Books. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a mausoleum of lovers — comes to take its place.

I Remember by Georges Perec, translated by Philip Terry published by David Godine  is the last of Perec's major works to be translated into English. An affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography, the work consists of 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with "I remember."

From the magnetic 1998 World Cup victory to the disappointing 2006 loss to Italy, the French men’s national soccer team has seen it all. For this summer’s 2014 World Cup season, we found three titles for diehard football fans, those “tag-along” friends, and anyone else interested in taking a dip into the creative pool of the current soccer frenzy.

In the Crowd by Laurent Mauvignier (Faber & Faber, 2008)
Zidane’s Melancholy by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2007)
Jouer Juste by François Bégaudeau (Gallimard, 2003)

Fieldwork: Marfa is the joint project of two leading European art academies, Les Beaux-Arts de Nantes and HEAD – Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design). This international researcher-in-residence program is dedicated to the practice of art in public space, critical approaches to landscape and borders and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. Located in Marfa, Texas, this unique platform is intended for emerging artists, curators and researchers whose projects require immersion into the specific environment of Marfa and Texas territory, and encourages the development of experimental research methods, diverse modes of inquiries and fieldwork practices.

2015 Fieldwork: Marfa apply here

We are pleased to announce that the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Institut français and FACE are now accepting applications for their translation assistance programs.

You may apply directly online to the following three programs:
FRENCH VOICES AWARDS
HEMINGWAY GRANTS
ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS GRANTS

Apply HERE

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.  In addition to five contemporary French films, Tournées participants will now also select a film from the list of French classics that were restored/re-released in the U.S. in 2013.
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 the French Cultures Festival (mois de la francophonie) thus adding its visibility.
Contact: mary.einbinder@diplomatie.gouv.fr or 713-985-3263

The MFAH Glassell Studio School of Art offers French Art History classes this Summer and Fall 2014.

Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River (ARH 313) - Dr. Anna Tahinci - Fall 2014
Thursdays (starting August 28th) 7:00 – 9:00 pm

We are proud to announce that Dr. Nathan Bracher, professor of French at Texas A&M received a Hemingway Grant for the translation of "Selection of Articles by François Mauriac From Journal III". 
The beneficiaries form a wide collection of remarkable books on art, poetry, fantasy world, and great literary figures. Learn more about Hemingway Grants HERE

Selection of Articles by François Mauriac From Journal III translated by Nathan Bracher and published by The Catholic University of America Press as "Paris Herald Tribune:  François Mauriac On Race, War, Politics, and Religion."

Commemorating the storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789, Bastille Day takes place on the same date each year. The main event is a grand military parade along the Champs-Élysées, attended by the President of the Republic and other political leaders. It is accompanied by fireworks and publics celebrations.

This year, the Fête Nationale will be celebrated on the evening of Monday, July 14 at Awty International School
For more details please visit the Consulat Général de France à Houston's website