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DECEMBER 2015
 
French culture
 

Highly renowned French sociologist and political science professor will be holding this month three conferences in Los Angeles. He will be discussing two key themes: "The Roma Question" and "Sex and Islam" at UCLA and USC.

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PERFORMING ARTS
December 3 - 4, 2015 | 7:30 PM | Los Angeles. The Theatre Raymond Kabbaz will present "Les Yeux Ouverts" ("Open Eyes"), starring French film and theatre legend Marie-Christine Barrault, with Éric Pierrot and Paul Spera. The play is based on the book "Les Yeux ouverts" ("Open Eyes"), which portrays an exceptional woman, Marguerite Yourcenar, in interviews she granted to literary critic Matthieu Galey. READ MORE
 
VISUAL ARTS
December 3, 2015 l 5:30 PM - 8PM l San Diego. Organized with the collaboration of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San Diego and sponsored by the Loire Valley Wineries of France, come admire pop art paintings by famous Australian artist Shane Bowden while enjoying wine tasting with delicious appetizers. READ MORE
December 5, 2015 l 12PM - 9PM l Los Angeles. French film director Juju Sorelli's store The Evil Rock N Roll Cat will be presenting an exhibition by cult rock n roll photographer Donna Santisi of pictures from the 70s punk rock scene of Los Angeles. READ MORE
December 5 - 19, 2015 | Santa Ana. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of the exodus of over a million Vietnamese people to other countries including France, for political, economic, and other reasons following the end of the Vietnam conflict. This exhibition aims to present a survey of the thematic concerns of artists of Vietnamese heritage and artists inspired by Vietnam over the past forty years. READ MORE
December 15, 2015 to May 1, 2016 | Los Angeles. Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV will be the first major museum exhibition of tapestries in the Western United States in four decades. During Louis XIV’s time, colorful and glittering tapestries, handwoven after designs by the most renowned artists, were the ultimate expression of status, power, taste, and wealth. READ MORE
 
MUSIC
December 6, 2015 | 4:00 PM | Los Angeles. Don't miss the third concert of "Le Salon de Musiques" concerts series in Los Angeles, "Romantic illuminations" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillon, 5th floor. It offers a more personal touch to listeners eager to familiarize themselves with Chamber Music and learn through a new dialogue between artist and audience. READ MORE
 
BOOKS AND IDEAS
December 2-3, 2015 l 6:00 PM l Tucson. Discover the many facets of Brazil with themes such as the impact of French scientific missions in Brazil and the origins of Afro-Brazilian studies in France with University of Arizona's French Professors of Anthropology Julie Cavignac and French Language Alain-Philippe Durand. READ MORE

December 3, 2015. Why LA? Pourquoi Paris? written by author Diane Ratican and illustrated by famed artist Nick Lu and French artist Eric Giriat, vividly captures the fascinating similarities between two contemporary metropolitan icones, Los Angeles on one hand and Paris on the other.

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December 3, 2015 l 6:30 PM l Los Angeles. UCLA will host French philosopher Alain Badiou with a conference entitled "Cinema and Philosophy: What's the status of Badiou's 'Life of Plato' film?". READ MORE
December 4, 2015 l 8PM - 10PM l Los Angeles. As world leaders convene for the COP21 climate talks in Paris, join JBL and Creative Migration for a special event through #COPisHere, part of OpenIDEO's Accelerate program. Experience the story of the native astronaut through a series of fictional journal entries authored by a theoretical entity: The First Human Born In Space. READ MORE
December 4, 2015 | 7:00 PM | Los Angeles. The Final Passage offers a cinematic journey in 3D of the French prehistoric Chauvet-Pont d'Arc painted cave, listed in the World Heritage of the UNESCO at the Getty Center. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the making of this film, the preservation of the site, and the archaeology of rock art. READ MORE
December 7, 2015 l 4:30 PM l Los Angeles. Eric Fassin's lecture proposes to articulate Michel Houellebcq's work of the 1990s, that focused on sex, with his publications since Platform in 2001, centering on Islam. READ MORE
December 7, 2015 l 12:00 PM l Los Angeles. Eric Fassin, sociologist and professor of Sociology at Paris-8 University will be at the University of California Los Angeles for a conference on the theme "The New Politics of Race in Color-Blind France and Neo-liberal Europe". READ MORE
December 8, 2015 | Los Angeles. Eric Fassin, sociologist and professor of Sociology at Paris-8 University will be at the University of Southern California for a conference on the theme "The New Politics of Race in Color-Blind France and Neo-liberal Europe". READ MORE
December 8, 2015 | 7:30 PM | Los Angeles. The Redcat Theatre is happy to host a discussion on the occasion of Semiotext(e)’s publication of Jean Baudrillard’s lecture for Chance, with French professor and philospher Sylvere Lotringer along with American writer Chris Kraus and American artist Becket Flannery. READ MORE
 
IT'S STILL ON!
October 9–December 12, 2015 | Los Angeles. Everyone’s Heart is Full of Fire reflects on the works of Dorothy Iannone (b. 1933) and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (b. 1950), through these artists’ chronicles of love stories, each linked to a fascinating artist and character. READ MORE
November 21 - December 13, 2015 | Los Angeles. The Human Resources Gallery will host a new exhibition, "The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning", with artists from all around the world, including the French artist Christine Rebet. READ MORE
September 15, 2015 - January 3, 2016 | Los Angeles. This exhibition celebrates the dramatic stylistic transformation and technical skill of French frame making in the 17th and 18th centuries, which presents an array of French design in wall furniture under four kings. READ MORE
July 17, 2015 - January 4, 2016 | Pasadena. The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition titled, "Revolution of the Palette", exploring the use of Prussian blue pigments, followed by the introduction of cobalt blue and synthetic ultramarine, by French artists from the Rococo period to the threshold of Impressionism. READ MORE
July 17, 2015 - January 04, 2016 l Pasadena. You still have time to visit the Norton Simon Museum's exhibition Fragonard's enterprise : The Artist and the Literature of Travel. It presents 60 drawings created by a young Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) during his first and most important stay in Italy in the mid-18th century. READ MORE
October 16, 2015 - February 15, 2016 l Pasadena. The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of Paysages et Intérieurs (Landscapes and Interiors), Édouard Vuillard’s (1868-1940) exquisite print album of 1899. This French printmaker was one of the most innovative artists of his century. READ MORE
September 13, 2015- March 20, 2016 | Los Angeles. An exhibition of Franck Gehry's extraordinary body of work is organized by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée National d’Art Moderne Paris, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Canadian-born, Los Angeles–based architect presents a comprehensive examination of his work from the early 1960s, featuring over 200 drawings, many of which have never been shown publicly, and 65 models that illuminate the evolution of his thought. READ MORE
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 14, 2015 | 7:30 PM | Los Angeles. Discover the American premiere of Pierre Richard III in Los Angeles, a one-man show starring French popular actor Pierre Richard, at the Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, theatre of the Lycée français of Los Angeles. READ MORE
January 19 - May 15, 2016 | Claremont. The Pomona College Museum of Art will host a new exhibition entitled "Restoring the spirit: celebrating haitian art". This exhibition is a landmark survey of Haiti’s complex visual traditions from 1940 to the present, a portrait of its artists’ devotion to creative endeavors in the face of national adversity. READ MORE
January 19 - May 15, 2016 | Claremont. The Pomona College Museum of Art will host an exhibition entitled "The Shake of a Man in Fever: Haiti's February Revolution Through the Lens of Danny Lyon". “The Shake of a Man in Fever” presents photographs from the museum’s permanent collection of U.S. photographer Danny Lyon’s series “Merci Gonaïves” (1986). READ MORE
January 22, 2016 l 9:30AM - 5:15PM l Los Angeles. An international conference on “Casanova, libertine legend" will be held at UCLA, with French Professors including Chantal Thomas from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), as key note speaker. READ MORE
March 3 - 5, 2016 | Claremont. Pomona College Museum of Art and Claremont Graduate University presents The Crossing/La traversée: Art in Haiti and the U.S. (1915-1986), a symposium convening national and international scholars and artists to examine the deep connections between artists in Haiti and artists in the United States. READ MORE
 
French Culture
IN THIS ISSUE
PERFORMING ARTS
 
VISUAL ARTS
 
MUSIC
 
BOOKS AND IDEAS
 
IT'S STILL ON!
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 

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