Tuesday, October 3, 2017 (4)

Oct 3, 2017
September 28, 2017
Thursday
  • Exposition d'art Pop up Pop Art et Dialogue

  • Sep 28, 2017 at 7:00am to Oct 14, 2017 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Chelsea
  • Description:

    7 artistes français contemporains sont presentes par les galeries AZART, ARTEMISIA et LIFE qui ont organisé deux expositions de groupe Pop up - Pop Art et Dialogue au cœur du quartier des galeries de Chelsea à New York.

    Les trois galeries basées à NYC représentent des artistes contemporains internationaux émergents ou reconnus. Leur point commun est leur intérêt pour des œuvres innovantes et uniques d’artistes influencés par l’art abstrait, figuratif, l’illustration, la pop culture et le Street art. 

  • Created by: laurence de Valmy
October 3, 2017
Tuesday
  • Flatiron French Play group

  • Oct 3, 2017 from 6:00am to 7:00pm
  • Location: Ecole Internationale de New-York
  • Description:

    Join us for a French immersion class open to all children from ages of  18 months to 4 years old, and parents of all language background. The play group will be led by a native French teacher who will interact with children through story time, songs and various fun activities in French.  

    Every Tuesday and Friday at 10am.

    Please register directly onto our Meet up website:

    https://www.meetup.com/Flatiron-French-Play-Group/events/243617497/  Or Contact Karine at 917-330-6022.

    Cost: $5.00/family/class

  • Created by: Karine Le Navenec
 
  • The Great Nadar - Adam Begley

  • Oct 3, 2017 from 3:00pm to 4:15pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description:

    ADAM BEGLEY, author of The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera (Tim Duggan Books, 2017), will speak about that larger-than-life figure, a visionary whose outsized talent and canny self-promotion put him way ahead of his time.


    Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris—a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas—Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern.


    The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one of the original celebrity artist-entrepreneurs. A kind of 19th-century Andy Warhol, he knew everyone worth knowing and photographed them all, conferring on posterity psychologically compelling portraits of Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Delacroix, Daumier and countless others—a priceless panorama of Parisian celebrity.


    Born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, he adopted the pseud

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU