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An Arab in My Mirror at the Irondale Center
On the stage, a woman is crawling, surrounded by other actors lurking around her threateningly. The woman tries to defend her with her words, tries to save face, but stammers. Her words are useless against their anger. An Arab in My Mirror at the Irondale Center">[+]New York
Feb. 09, 12
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Johan Amselem Receives 2012 McKnight International Fellow at the University of Minnesota
Paris-based choreographer and dancer, Johan Amselem, has been selected as the first McKnight International Fellowship, coordinated by Northrop Concerts and Lectures of the University of Minnesota. He will be in residence in until June [+]Minnesota
Feb. 08, 12
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A Memorial Forest for NYC
Studio a+1, an architecture studio based in New York City and run by the French-Singaporean duo Mateo Paiva and Lily Lim, has won the competition to design an AIDS Memorial Park opposite the site of the old St Vincent’s Hospital. [+]Feb. 08, 12
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Focus on French Contemporary Art
Opus + One, Jean-Luc Moulene
Dia:Beacon
Until December 31, 2012
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Étant donnés are proud to support the Dia Art Foundation in presenting: OPUS + ONE, the first comprehensive museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Moulène.
Commissioned by Dia, Opus + One will comprise objects and images created over the past two decades and will be on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, in New York’s Hudson Valley for one year. Organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will be accompanied by a new work commissioned for the Dan Flavin Art Institute, in Bridgehampton, NY, and a major publication. Read more
Liberty, Equality & Fraternity: French Design for Living
Wolfsonian Museum FIU, Miami
Until March 26, 2012
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University was invited by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to organize an exhibition and publication from the design collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (National Center for Visual Arts or CNAP). The exhibition, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: French Design for Living, will be presented at The Wolfsonian from December 2011 to March 2012, and will travel to other venues in North America.
The exhibition explores French cultural identity through design produced in the twentieth century to today. Approximately 150 objects will be exhibited, including furniture, industrial design, and craft, created by some of the most celebrated French designers of the past and present, including Pierre Paulin, Roger Tallon, Olivier Mourgue, Philippe Starck, and the Bouroullec Brothers, as well as others little known in the United States. Wolfsonian Museum http://www.wolfsonian.org
Portrait of a Young Man, Laurent Grasso
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
Until February 12, 2012
French artist Laurent Grasso investigates shifting and multiple time frames in his conceptual art practice. His project at the Bass Museum of Art juxtaposes historical works from our permanent collection of Renaissance and Baroque art with his own series of paintings, sculptures, videos and neons. Here, Grasso provocatively forms literal and figurative connections between the past and the present.
The exhibition takes as its departure point Laurent Grasso’s reflections on the rationality of the Renaissance, “the age of discovery,” a period in time when man began seeing the world in a completely different manner, becoming interested in individuality, the natural world, science, cosmology and the study of geography. A time when science and the arts were not disparate fields but rather informed one another. Bass Museum www.bassmuseum.org
Tour de France/Florida:
Contemporary Artists from France
Frost Art Museum FIU / France Florida Foundation for the Arts, Miami
November 9, 2011 – March 18, 2012
This exhibition is born from a desire to measure the presence of French art, diffused yet significant in private collections of the region. The elaboration phase of the exhibition demonstrated the abundance of collections in Florida and the generosity of the collectors. Together these artists demonstrate a number of interesting perspectives as it showcases artists of international renown, like Christian Boltanski and Sophie Calle; artists not well recognized in Florida, outside of the circle of well-versed collectors, like Jean-Pierre Khazem and Denise A. Aubertin, and young artists like Gyan Panchal.
Also lending to the exhibitions perspective are works from The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, which relies on the articulation between visual arts and writing. This exhibition opens on November 9th, 2011 from 6 pm to 9 pm during Target Wednesday After Hours at The Frost Art Museum at FIU located at 10975 SW 17 Street, Miami, FL 33199. Frost Art Museum www.thefrost.fiu.edu
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Written on Oct. 07, 11
