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The original work of three contemporary French artists Cedric Cocoyer, Sylvie Michault and Tina McDowell will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC. The opening reception will take place Thursday, May 26th, from 6-8 PM.
Artists Laurence de Valmy (France) and Mary Beth McAllister (USA) are pleased to announce their respective exhibitions French Reflections and Les Gardiens du Jardin at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in Montclair. The exhibitions will open on Friday, May 20 and will remain on view through Thursday, June 16, 2016 in FIAF Montclair’s new, expanded space.
An opening reception will be held at FIAF Montclair on Friday, May 20th at 6 pm with both artists and the FIAF Montclair team. The exhibitions are included on the Montclair Art Walk tour, which takes place that same evening. Both exhibitions are curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser, Director of FIAF Montclair: “While both artists have different universes and backgrounds, they share a love for French culture, and their work is full of joie de vivre,” said Marie-Catherine Glaser.
The collaboration was born from the friendship between McAllister and Valmy. The artists met at an event organized by Arts by the People at the Arti
Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the upcoming release of Benoît Jacquot’s provocative update of the classic novel DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, starring Léa Seydoux as the titular chambermaid, in her second collaboration with Mr. Jacquot since Farewell, My Queen, and award-winning French actor Vincent Lindon (The Measure of a Man). DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID is scheduled to open on Friday, June 10 in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema) and Los Angeles (Royal).
Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau, as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces. There she must immediately chafe against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel’s version to Octave Mirbeau’s original 1900 novel,
MONTCLAIR, NJ – Artists Laurence de Valmy and Mary Beth McAllister are happy to announce an Artists Talk: La Vie en Rose on Thursday, June 9th, 2016 from 7 to 9 pm hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in Montclair, an opportunity to meet the artists and share about their art. Light refreshments will be offered.
Their respective exhibitions French Reflections and Les Gardiens du Jardin, the fruit of their artistic collaboration, are currently on view until Thursday, June 16, 2016 in FIAF Montclair’s new, expanded space. The two artists have worked closely with Marie-Catherine Glaser, Director of FIAF Montclair and curator of the exhibitions. “The opening reception was a success and we’re happy to host them one more time: there was an overwhelming curiosity about the 2 artists and their process and as an educational institution we encouraged them to give us another evening before the show moves on.” said Marie-Catherine Glaser.
The joint exhibitions were born from th
