Le 7 septembre prochain l’institution new yorkaise ABC Home, ouvrira ses portes pour la première fois aux Etats Unis aux oeuvres calligraphiques de Thich Nhat Hanh, à travers l’exposition Calligraphic Meditation: The Mindful Art of Thich Nhat Hanh

Tich Nhat Hanh, maître du Bouddhisme Zen, fervent défenseur de la non violence lors de la guerre du Vietnam fut soutenu par Martin Luther King lors de sa nomination pour le prix Nobel de la Paix en 1967. Il est considéré par le New York Times comme le deuxième personnage le plus important du Bouddhisme après le Dalai Lama.

Son histoire est intimement liée à celle de la France, où il trouva refuge en 1972 après avoir été expulsé des Etats Unis. Son opposition à la guerre du Vietnam le contraint à l’exile alors qu’il enseignait à Princeton et Columbia. En 1982, il fonda dans le Périgord un monastère qui allait devenir la plus grande communauté bouddhiste d’Occident. Son enseignement et ses écrits ont depuis atteints des millions de personnes à tr

For over three decades, French photographer Dominique Nabokov has turned her camera lens on friends and colleagues at The New York Review, producing an incisive and intimate portrait of many of its key players. The approximately 50 black and white photographs in the exhibition capture both the spirit of the magazine and offer informal portraits of its editors, contributors, and supporters. Nabokov has subtly documented many convivial moments and the occasional intellectual jostling between the Review’s varied personalities. The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of The New York Review, which famously coalesced during the New York printers’ strike of 1963.

The exhibition is made possible by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

An illustrated catalogue with introduction by Ian Buruma will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. It will be available online for free download; visit www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise for details. La Maison Française is open to the public Monda

Science, Language & Arts International School (PK-5th)

A French and Mandarin immersion elementary school in the heart of the BAM Cultural District!

Remaining information sessions for 2014 admissions:

Wednesday, November 13, 6:30–8 p.m. (almost full)

Saturday, November 23, 10–11:30 a.m. (almost full)

Tuesday, December 10, 6:30–8 p.m.
 

Attending an information session is not required for admission, but it is the best way to get information about SLA, ask questions, and see classrooms. 

NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of French artist Nelly Cougard in Unbound Perspectives. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 22, 2013 through December 13, 2013.  The opening reception will be held on Thursday night, December 5, 2013 from 6-8 pm.

About the Artist

Nelly Cougard’s vibrant abstractions in acrylic and oil on canvas or paper are as emotive as they are resonant. A process-oriented artist who names movement as a governing quality of her work, Cougard works across media, incorporating a variety of materials into her works, including paper and structural gels. Interested in removing the “object” proper from the optical projections mediating time and space, her masterful compositions invoke the primal and seductive rhythms of music and nature. Drawn to balance and the “energetic trace” of gestural forms, her paintings depict the continually changing aspects of human existence, that which is at once ephemeral and fragile. Says the ar

- Le 21ème anniversaire de l’Africain Diaspora International Film Festival  -FIFDA en Français- sera célébré à New York du 29 novembre jusqu’au 15 décembre 2013 avec la présentation d’une vingtaine de productions françaises et francophones.  La Tunisie, Haïti, l’Algérie, l’Egypte, La République Démocratique du Congo, le Québec, la Suisse, Madagascar, la France, le Luxembourg, le Mali, le Maroc, le Sénégal, et la Guyane Française sont les pays et régions francophones mise à l’honneur dans FIFDA 2013.

À l’affiche, une première mondiale basée sur une histoire vraie Raltat de Al Robbins.  Suite à une d'erreur d'identité grave, Mme Mohamed Atta, femme marocaine mariée à un homme du même nom que l’un des terroristes impliqué dans les évènements du 11 septembre au World Trade Center, est arrêtée par le FBI à JFK. Le film, tourné à Casablanca au Maroc et Washington DC, est une collaboration entre un réalisateur Afro-Américain et une maison de production marocaine.

Une autre collaboration US/Afr

MAUVAIS SANG, Leos Carax's iconic second feature opens at Film Forum with a new restoration! 

November 29 - December 5 

Starring DENIS LAVANT, JULIETTE BINOCHE, MICHEL PICCOLI, JULIE DELPY 

Marc and Hans, two old gangsters, are ordered by a rival, the American woman, to repay a debt. They plan to steal the vaccine for a mysterious virus, STBO, which affects those who make love without being in love and is wreaking havoc among teenagers. After the death of their associate Jean, the two accomplices call on his son, Alex, known as "Chatterbox", who is a talented conjuror. Alex, who has just left his girlfriend Lise, falls madly in love with a girl in a white dress he sees on a bus. Her name is Anna and she turns out to be Marc's mistress...

“CARAX'S MOST PURELY DELIGHTFUL WORK! Bittersweet, haunting, and as original and eccentric as homage movies get, infusing arch neo-Godard poetics with grace notes cribbed from Griffith, Chaplin, and Cocteau. [...] This is chiefly a movie of pulse-quickenin

EXPOSURE 2013

I will show you my new series of collages.

on view for 3 weeks

I will be attending 2 artist's reception on Thursdays dec 5 and 21

hope to see you there

Natalie Zemon Davis

A Distinguished Eugene J. Sheffer Lecture

Introduction by Madeleine Dobie

Lazӑr Șӑineanu (1859-1934) was a pioneering philologist and folklorist in his native Romania, bringing to bear on Yiddish and Romanian the historical and pluralistic approach to language developed in France by Michel Bréal.  As an émigré to France in 1901, Lazare Sainéan applied his method successfully to the history of French argot and to the language of Rabelais, but got little response to his work on Yiddish.  “Languages of the People” traces the relation of this philological trajectory to the conflicts of the time –-in Romania and in France and among Jewish groups in Europe –- about what constitutes a nation and who can belong to it. 

Natalie Zemon Davis is Professor Emerita, Princeton University and senior fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. A prolific scholar of global social and cultural history and historiography, her wide ranging and influential books include: T