Méditation Calligraphique : L’Art Conscient de Thich Nhat Hanh
- Sep 6, 2013 to Dec 31, 2013
- Location: ABC Home
- Description:
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
- Created by: Francois Servranckx
Thursday, December 5, 2013 (9)
Dominique Nabokov: The World of the New York Review of Books, Photographs 1980–2009
- Oct 31, 2013 to Dec 6, 2013
- Location: La Maison Française of NYU
- Description:
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
- Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
SLA French/Mandarin elementary school info sessions
- Nov 13, 2013 at 1:30pm to Dec 10, 2013 at 3:00pm EST
- Location: SLA International School
- Description:
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.
Click the links above, or go to our Admissions page at slaschool.org and click the links to sign up.
Sarah Creider, Office Manager
Science, Language & Arts International School - Created by: Science, Language and Arts
French artist Nelly Cougard Featured in NYC Art Show
- Nov 22, 2013 at 6:00am to Dec 13, 2013 at 1:00pm EST
- Location: Agora Gallery
- Description:
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
- Created by: Lee Eagle
Festival International des Films de la Diaspora Africaine
- Nov 28, 2013 to Dec 15, 2013
- Location: Thalia Cinema
- Description:
- 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
- Created by: ArtMattan Productions
MAUVAIS SANG by Leos Carax at Film Forum
- Nov 29, 2013 at 8:00am to Dec 5, 2013 at 4:00pm EST
- Location: Film Forum
- Description:
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
- Created by: Amélie Garin-Davet
Exposure 2013
- Dec 4, 2013 to Dec 21, 2013
- Location: Ceres Gallery
- Description:
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
- Created by: Laurence Neron-Bancel
Artist's RECEPTION
- Dec 5, 2013 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm EST
- Location: Ceres Gallery
- Description:
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
- Created by: Laurence Neron-Bancel
Making History: a Roundtable Discussion with Natalie Zemon Davis
- Dec 5, 2013 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm EST
- Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
- Description:
Moderated by Emmanuelle Saada (French & History)
Natalie Zemon Davis is one of the most influential and versatile contemporary historians. A pathbreaking scholar of early modern European social and cultural history, she has also explored the Mediterranean world as seen by Leo Africanus and the culture of slavery in Suriname. Her books explore marginal subjects of history and the place of narrative and fictionality in historical research. Interdisciplinary and original, her work has inspired scholars across many fields as well as a feature film: The Return of Martin Guerre (1982).
In this roundtable discussion, Columbia University scholars explore key aspects of Natalie Zemon Davis's work as well as its impact on their own approach to their disciplines.
Discussants:
Elisheva Carlebach (History & Jewish Studies)
Matthew Jones (History)
Natasha Lightfoot (History)
Claudio Lomnitz (Anthroplogy & Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race)
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and the Depart
- Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise