Events

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 (7)

Oct 6, 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
September 25, 2010
Saturday
September 30, 2010
Thursday

  • A season in the Congo, by Aimé Césaire

  • Sep 30, 2010 at 4:00pm to Oct 17, 2010 at 6:30pm
  • Location: Theatre Row, The Lion Theatre
  • Description: In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rico Workshop Productions and producers Jackie Jeffries and Rico Speight will present Aimé Césaire's '' A season in the Congo' at the Lion Theatre at New York's Theatre Row this fall. A Season in the Congo is the turbulent history of the Congo’s first year of independence and the rise and fall of the legendary leader Patrice Lumumba.
  • Created by: New York in French
October 6, 2010
Wednesday

  • Shifting Gaze Video-Art-Music Installation

  • Oct 6, 2010 at 7:00am to Oct 7, 2010 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Times Square, Manhattan
  • Description: “Shifting Gaze” is a film and video-art-music installation about CHOICE, DESIRE and MEMORY.Conceived and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video-artist) and created in collaboration with Erica Glyn (Music production, composer and singer) and Isabelle Duverger (Photography and Graphic Animations).The project nature is based in creative collaboration between different disciplines. Shifting Gaze looks at our feeling of place and time in its most stripped down state: simply ‘being’. Hovering on the borders of consciousness, the film is an exploration of both event and human presence. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Drawing on the fragments-presence of the body, urban construction, textures and remains of activity, this triptych pays homage to the submerged, the transformed, the no longer visible.Shifting Gaze is born out of the impulse to get close to the human behind the persona. The piece challenges self-expression and invents new forms of desire, breathing
  • Created by: Isabelle Duverger
 

  • Documentary Filmmaking as a Territory of Freedom

  • Oct 6, 2010 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Columbia University, Maison Française -- East Gallery, Buell Hall
  • Description: Wednesday, October 6, 6-8 p.m.DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING AS A TERRITORY OF FREEDOMA master class with filmmaker SIMONE BITTONEvent Location : East Gallery, Buell HallThe master class is in English, and is free and open to the public.Filmmaker Simone Bitton -- a citizen of both France and Israel and self-defined "Arab Jew who likes neither walls nor borders" -- works and makes films in Israel and Palestine. Bitton has directed more than 15 documentary films and won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the César. She will present clips from WALL, her award-winning documentary about the separation fence destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, and discuss her latest investigative documentary -- the controversial RACHEL -- about the American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer while protesting the Israeli destruction of Arab homes in Palestine. RACHEL will be showing in New
  • Created by: Carly DeFilippo
 

  • Gisèle SAPIRO - Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials in France from the Restauration to the Liberation

  • Oct 6, 2010 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of New York University
  • Description: Gisèle Sapiro is research director at the CNRS (Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris) and director of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (Paris). She teaches at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. She published La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (1999), and many articles on literature and politics in France, public intellectuals, translation. Among the books she edited: Translatio. Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation (2008); Les Contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale (2009); L’Espace intellectuel en Europe (2009). Forthcoming : La Responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature et morale en France (19e-20e siècles) (Seuil, 2011).Abstract:As Foucault suggested, censorship has shaped in large part the relation between the author and his work. Authors' legal responsibilities were redefined after the liberalization of French publishing in 1819. Parliament’s debates of the laws on the press, literary trials (including th
  • Created by: Frédéric Viguier
 

  • GISELE SAPIRO

  • Oct 6, 2010 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description: Institute of French Studies ColloquiumGISELE SAPIROResearch director at the CNRS (Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris) and director of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (Paris). She teaches at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. She has published La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (1999), and many articles on literature and politics in France, public intellectuals, translation. Among the books she has edited are: Translatio. Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation (2008); Les Contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale (2009); L’Espace intellectuel en Europe (2009). Forthcoming: La Responsabilité de l’écrivain. Littérature et morale en France (19e-20e siècles) (Seuil, 2011).Authorship and Responsibility: Literary Trials in France from the Restauration to the LiberationAs Foucault suggested, censorship has shaped in large part the relation between the author and his work. Authors' legal responsibilities were redefined
  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU