Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson discuss their work producing forms, objects, images, and experiences and their research in Marfa. Attentive to the materializing of the immaterial—how to photograph temperature or wind, how to sculpt and photograph sound, how to formulate or make an image audible—since 1998, the artists have explored together the way time makes its mark and how objects can record, hold, and reveal embedded narratives.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth presents a selection of French masterpieces from Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Cézanne in the exhibition "Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland".

FotoFest presents "I Am A Camera", LGBTQ communities seen from within, a group exhibition about self-representation featuring the work of French artist Frédéric Nauczyciel. His photography series "The Fire Flies" documents the individuals engaged in the voguing scene in Baltimore.

French artist Hugo Capron from Dijon was selected for a Summer residency in Dallas at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Meadows School of Art. American artist Melissa Tran will be going to France for two months. An exhibition featuring their work will open at the Pollock Gallery on August 29th. This exchange program is organized in partnership with the ENSA Dijon, le Consortium, FRAC Bourgogne and SMU.

Fieldwork: Marfa, the international research and residency lead by the School of Fine Arts of Nantes and HEAD Geneva welcomes American composer, sound artist and scholar of sound Erik DeLuca. The artist will explore field engagement as an interdisciplinary theory and practice for making sound art, music, and ethnographic compositions. He will discuss his Marfa residency and present a new piece featuring pianist Charlie Magnone at the Contemporary Austin on August 12.

This immersive multi-media installation is a collaboration between Houston-based filmmaker, interactive multimedia producer, and community activist Carroll Parrott Blue, French composer and multimedia artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière and New York-based composer and computer interactive artist George Lewis.

The Blanton Museum of Art presents "Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World:, an exhibition of eighty paintings by Realist-Impressionist painter Francisco Oller and his contemporaries. Providing historical, geographic, and cultural context for Oller’s work, the exhibition also features paintings by nineteenth-century masters including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

In 2015, Roland Barthes would have been one hundred years old. To celebrate this anniversary, the Institut Français is inviting web users to take part in a unique digital experience: viewing reality through Roland Barthes' eyes by contributing to a major image collection. Participate here: Barthes/Vision.

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 programs:
FRENCH VOICES AWARDS
HEMINGWAY GRANTS
ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS GRANTS

Apply HERE

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work. Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation.

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.

The authors listed below are still available for booking in Texas:
- Pierre Lemaitre I 25 September
- Fiston Mwanza Mujila I 28 September - 2 October
- Marc Dugain I 17 - 19 October
- Gilles Leroy I Fall 2015
- Valérie Zenatti I Fall 2015
- Dorothée de Monfried I Fall 2015

To view the complete list of authors visit: http://frenchculture.org/books/authors-on-tour

One of France's brightest new star auteurs Mia Hansen-Løve, was asked by the Austin Film Society to select two films that were inspirational for her as she developed her latest film, "Eden". Mia selected "The Mother and the Whore" by Jean Eustache and "Something In the Air" by Olivier Assayas on view at the Austin Film Society on July 1, 7 and 10.

The annual French cinema week returns to the OKCMOA just after Bastille Day and presents five innovative new titles from France along with a recently re-released masterpiece of Jacques Rivette.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s fourth feature is a rare achievement: an epically scaled work built on the purely ephemeral, breathlessly floating along on currents of feeling. "Eden" is based on the experiences of Hansen-Løve’s brother (and co-writer) Sven, who was one of the pioneering DJs of the French rave scene in the early 1990s.

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes. Directed by Anne Fontaine.

Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin "The Artist" plays radically against type in this gripping thriller from the files of the same criminal ring that inspired William Friedkin’s classic The French Connection. Dujardin is Pierre Michel, a Marseilles magistrate who dedicates himself to apprehending fearsome heroin czar Gaetano Zampa (Gilles Lellouche, "Little White Lies"). Directed by Cédric Jimenez.

France Rocks is back for a second edition of the College Radio compilation, with fifteen of the most exciting acts coming out of France today, from international pop superstars like Stromae, Lilly Wood & the Prick, and Christine and the Queens to up-and-coming underground electro acts like Cotton Claw, Bobmo, and Einleit, with everything in between for your listening pleasure.

Elevate yourself with these new French sounds and upcoming artists.
ESCAPE PLAYLIST HERE: http://spoti.fi/1TSH6a9

Take advantage of summertime to learn French and find a French language course that suits you by visiting www.qualitefle.fr. All centers listed online have received a French as a Foreign Language Quality Label.

Commemorating the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the Fête Nationale will widely be celebrated:

Austin, TX I July 11 I Alliance Française
Dallas, TX I July  14 I Bastille on Bishop
El Paso, TX I July 18 I Alliance Française d'El Paso
Houston, TX I July 14 I French Consulate Bastille Day at Awty International School
Oklahoma City, OK I  July 11 I Alliance Française
Tulsa, OK I July 14 I Alliance Française