Events

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 (9)

Sep 22, 2010
August 10, 2010
Tuesday

  • Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917

  • Aug 10, 2010 at 5:00am to Oct 11, 2010 at 3:00pm
  • Location: MoMA
  • Description: In the time between Henri Matisse's (1869–1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. Works from this period have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as an aberration within the artist's development, or as a response to Cubism or World War I. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse's studio practice. Through this shift of focus, the exhibition reveals deep connections among these works and demonstrates their critical role in the artist's development at this time. Matisse himself acknowledged near the end of his life the significance of this period when he identified two works—Bathers by a
  • Created by: Quentin Jouberton
August 11, 2010
Wednesday
September 12, 2010
Sunday

  • Farm City: Where Are You Growing? A Celebration of Urban Agriculture

  • Sep 12, 2010 at 7:00am to Sep 25, 2010 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Locations throughout NYC
  • Description: Over three weekends, Farm City celebrates Urban Agriculture and explores the possibilities of a new agrarian future within the current urban reality. Components include: Farm City Fair, Farm City Film, Farm City Tour, and Farm City Forum, spotlighting the work of artists, farmers, activists, planners, architects, chefs, and foodies devoting themselves to feeding the city both culturally and agriculturally. Presented by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), Farm City is part of the Crossing the Line fall festival, conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of transdisciplinary artists working in France and New York City.
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher
September 22, 2010
Wednesday

  • French and Spanish Foreign Ministers in Conversation at NYU 9/22

  • Sep 22, 2010 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Kimmel Center, New York University
  • Description: The Center for French Civilization and CultureandThe King Juan Carlos I of Spain CenterofNew York Universitycordially invite you toThe European Union and the Middle East Peace Processa conversation between:BERNARD KOUCHNERFrench Minister of Foreign and European AffairsandMIGUEL ANGEL MORATINOSSpanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and CooperationFree and open to the public.Valid photo i.d. required for entry to the Kimmel Center.
  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 

  • French Culture Nights Unveils New York Sings In French

  • Sep 22, 2010 from 2:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Location: Touch
  • Description: New York has Francophone Talents! French Culture Nights is proud to unveil New York Sings In French, the first annual French Music Talent Contest at Touch, 240 W. 52nd Street, on Sept. 22.This contest will showcase up-and-coming Francophone singers living in New York. A panel of three judges, along with attendees, will select the winner. The prize is a sculpture specially designed by Francophone artist Pierre-Henry Guérard, a gifted sculptor who was featured at our May 2010 event. More than 500 people are expected to celebrate French music and its ambassadors – new Francophone talents.FEATURED FINALISTS- Floanne Ankah: Floanne‘s vocal repertoire includes French classics, opera arias and her own songs. For more information, please visit www.NewYorkSingsInFrench.com- Eleanor Dubinsky: Born in the U.S., Eleanor sings sincere, heartfelt melodies in French, Spanish and English and uses her music to express her passion for a diversity of people and cultures. For more information, please visi
  • Created by: Enrique Gonzalez
 

  • ROSEMARY WAKEMAN: The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958

  • Sep 22, 2010 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Francaise of NYU
  • Description: ROSEMARY WAKEMANProfessor of History, Fordham University; author of The Heroic City (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009)The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958The Heroic City is an account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests, young people and students on parade, North Africans arriving in the capital of the French empire, and radio and television shows broadcast live from the streets, Paris continued to be vital terrain. Wakeman analyzes the public life of the city from a variety of perspectives. A reemergence of traditional customs led to the return of festivals, street dances, and fairs, while violent protests and political marches, the housing crisis, and the struggle over decolon
  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 

  • Rosemary WAKEMAN - The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958

  • Sep 22, 2010 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison française of New York University
  • Description: Rosemary Wakeman is a professor of History and the director of the Urban Studies program at Fordham University. She is the author of The Heroic City: Paris 1945-1958 (2009) and Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945-1975 (1998). She writes regularly for the Revue Urbanisme, most recently an article on the New York mega-region. She has published numerous articles on urban history and on cities, including a recent special issue of French Politics, Culture & Society on “The Renovation of Les Halles” in Paris. She is also co-editor of the Metropolitan Studies series published by Berghahn Books.Abstract:The Heroic City is an account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests,
  • Created by: Frédéric Viguier
 

  • Bouchra Ouizguen Madame Plaza

  • Sep 22, 2010 from 4:00pm to 6:30pm
  • Location: Florence Gould Hall
  • Description: Moroccan dancer/choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen and three traditional Aïta singers present a striking choreo-vocal encounter that addresses their corporal freedom through their custom of songs, incantations, and dances. To her work Ouizguen brings the unique sensibility of her experience as a soloist in oriental dance, and her time with French choreographers Mathilde Monnier and Boris Charmatz.Part of Danspace Project’s Platform 2010: Certain Difficulties, Certain Joy, curated by Trajal Harrell.
  • Created by: Quentin Jouberton
 

  • Bouchra Ouizguen’s Madame Plaza

  • Sep 22, 2010 at 4:00pm to Sep 23, 2010 at 4:00pm
  • Location: FIAF; Florence Gould Hall
  • Description: A unique event, part performance, part intimate revelation, Madame Plaza by Moroccan choreographer and performer Bouchra Ouizguen makes its U.S. premiere this fall in New York, presented by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), in partnership with Danspace Project. Madame Plaza is part of FIAF’s Crossing the Line 2010, conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of transdisciplinary artists working in France and New York City.In Madame Plaza, Ouizguen joins with three traditional Morrocan Aïta singers, creating a potent and engaging framework to address their corporal freedom through a tradition of songs, incantations, and dances, utilizing their singular and bewitching chants and gentle hip-swing. The Aïta is a call or an appeal, blending sensuality with a deeper search for truth and meaning, and evoking the ancestral memory of a rural world, complete with its heroes, mythical figures, and legends.Presented by the French Institute Alliance Françai
  • Created by: Jennifer Kutsher