AUGUST 2018
Cultural Agenda

VISUAL ART

DALLAS, TX | UNTIL FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, An Enduring Legacy presents 32 19th- and early 20th-century artworks featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by French artists Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Georges Braque, among many others.

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HOUSTON, TX | AUGUST 10-11 | 3 PM

Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of “Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse” from the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

From the exhibition walls of the innovative 2016 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to the beauty of artists’ gardens like Giverny, the documentary shows how Monet and his contemporaries cultivated gardens to explore expressive motifs, abstract color, decorative design, and utopian ideas.

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MUSIC

ROUND TOP, TX | AUGUST 18 | 3PM

The Chamber Music Trio will perform on the Round Top Festival Institute Concert Hall stage. Featuring French cellist Louis-Marie Fardet (founding member of the Francoeur Chamber Music Society), Bulgarian violinist Chavdar Parashkevov, and pianist Viktor Valkov, the trio will perform music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich.

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AUSTIN & DALLAS, TX | OCTOBER 4-5

The internationally-renowned French band Phoenix will be performing at the Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater of Austin on October 4th and at the South Side Ballroom of Dallas on October 5th, in the framework of their North American tour. Whereas the Austin event is already sold out, tickets for the Dallas performance are still available. Do not wait too long!

 

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BOOKS

SAN ANTONIO, TX | AUGUST 19 | 4-5PM

The McNay Art Museum is hosting a presentation by William Middleton, author of Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil. This is the first and definitive biography of the celebrated French couple and art collectors Dominique and John de Menil. Books will be available for purchase, and Mr. Middleton will be signing books after the discussion.

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On June 6th, the second Albertine Prize was awarded to writer Anne Garréta and translator Emma Ramadan for Not One Day, published by Austin-based literary publisher Deep Vellum. The Albertine Prize is given each year to an author and translator for a French book published in the United States in the preceding calendar year.

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CINEMA

HOUSTON, TX | AUGUST 4-5

Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of the 2017 French drama film "The Guardians" (Les gardiennes) directed and written by Xavier Beauvois, starring Nathalie Baye and Laura Smet.

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FORT WORTH, TX | AUGUST 10-12

Screening of 2017 French film "Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti" (Gauguin - voyage de Tahiti), directed by Edouard Deluc and starring Vincent Cassel at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

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AUSTIN, TX | AUGUST 11, 12, 14 & 17

Screening of the 1973 animated science fiction film "Fantastic Planet" (La planète sauvage) directed by René Laloux at the Austin Film society.

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HOUSTON, TX | AUGUST 18-19

Screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of the 1977 French film "One Sings, The Other Doesn't" (L'une chante, l'autre pas), written and directed by Agnès Varda.

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Congratulations to Texas Lutheran University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Central Arkansas and West Texas A & M University. Each one has been selected to receive a Tournées Film Festival grant that will contribute to the screening of six French films as part of a festival on their campuses during the 2018/2019 academic year.

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