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1avril
| april
Mardi | Tuesday
VISUAL
ARTS
•1:00
PM TOUR:
The Barbizon painters: The Road to Realism
(20 min.)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
LACMA
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2 avril
| april
Mercredi | Wednesday
CONFERENCE | LECTURE
4:00pm
•
Lecture: "The Border
of the Bayeux Tapestry: Visual Gloss or Marginal Images”
A lecture by Professor Peter Klein (University of Tübingen).
Advance Registration: Not required. Please sign the attendance sheet at
the door.
Fee: None
Seating: Seating is limited. Seats available on a first-come, first-served
basis.
Parking: Parking permits are $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk.
Tell them you are here to attend “CMRS lecture in Royce Hall.”
You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.
UCLA - Royce 314
6:30 p.m
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
•Lecture
- “Les Enfants de Boucher” and Madame de Pompadour
French Art at The Huntington Series
Alistair Laing, curator of pictures and sculpture at the National Trust
in London, will discuss The Huntington’s unrivalled collection of
tapestries by François Boucher, which includes 10 chair-backs
of children and cupids originally made for Madame de Pompadour. Laing
will explore the genesis of these images of children and the extent to
which Madame de Pompadour was involved with their creation.
This lecture is one of a series celebrating the publication of the new
catalog, French Art of the 18th Century at The Huntington. Admission to
the lecture is free.
Friends’ Hall
Huntington Library, San Marino
Huntington.org
•8:30
pm
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
Serge Gainsbourg Night
in honor of what would have been his 80th birthday.
With:
Joel Virgil,
Papillon,
Adele Jacques of Paris Loves L.A.,
Alex and Sam,
Colorforms,
a special performance by Bjorn Turoque,
and more...
The
Fold in Bordello
901 E. 1st St.
Downtown Los Angeles
(just south of Union Station)
Cover charge is $10
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3 avril
| april
Jeudi | Thursday
VISUAL
ARTS
•1:30 PM TOUR:
Five Heads of Jeanette by Henri Matisse (15 min.)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
LACMA
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3-27avril
| april
Jeudi | Thursday
THEATRE
•Picasso
at the Lapin Agile
From the madcap imagination of comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin
comes a fictional meeting between painter Pablo Picasso and scientist
Albert Einstein at a bar in Paris in the early 1900s. Each on the verge
of major breakthroughs, the two talents share a rarefied sense of beauty
and debate the nature of genius. And, they are further inspired by a mysterious
visitor who appears from the future. Paul Provenza returns to the Rubicon
stage, reprising the role he made famous off-Broadway.
Rubicon Theatre Company
Ventura
rubicontheatre.org
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4
avril | april
Vendredi | Friday
7.30 pm
•
Louisiana Event
The Alliance
Française de Los Angeles invites
you to discover the Creole culture through
Zydeco Music, a Photo Exhibit, Food and more.
Goethe
Institut
Location: 5750 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info and Reservation:
310 652 0306 or info@afdela.org
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5
avril | april
Samedi | Saturday
CINEMA
•
Flight of the Red Balloon
7:30 pm
Special Preview Screening
 2007/color/113
min. | Scr: Hou Hsiao Hsien, François Margolin; dir: Hou Hsiao
Hsien; w/ Juliette Binoche, Simon Ieanu, Song Fang
Commissioned by the Musée d'Orsay, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien's
first French-language film stars Juliette Binoche as a single mother so
absorbed in her work as a puppeteer that she hires a young film student
to help care for her seven-year old son.
Though partly inspired by Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short Le Ballon Rouge,
Hou's film is an entirely original and tender reimagining infused with
the lyrical humanism and casual majesty of his weightless camerawork.
Ticket info: $9, $6 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students
with valid ID. Purchase of a film ticket includes entrance to the galleries.
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
lacma.org
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9
avril | april
Mercredi | Thursday
THEATRE
8 pm
•Aurélia's
Oratorio
Directed and Designed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin; Performed by
Aurélia Thierrée (Switzerland)
West Coast Premier Tour
Freud Playhouse
Price: $42, 28 adults; $34, 22 kids 12 & under
($15 UCLA students)
Royce
Hall - UCLA
3:30PM to 5:30PM
•
Fanioc Presents
A Spring Garden Party at Café Jardin with the Honorable Philippe
Larrieu, Consul General of France
Helene Demeestere, Historian, will present an illustrated talk on “Business
Ventures or Business Adventure, the Peregrination of Louis Mesmer, A French
Man in Early California.”
$30 per person, includes entry to the event + food/drinks.
Only 45 Seats. Priority will be given to Fanioc members.
More info at Fanioc.ning.com
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10 avril
| april
Jeudi | Thursday
6:00 pm to 9 pm
VISUAL
ARTS
• Vernissage: Juliette
Hermant
Salon Eleven proudly presents selected paintings by French artist Juliette
Hermant
Reception at
Salon
Eleven
420 W. 11th Street, Los Angeles Ca 90015
(Grand Avenue and 11th Street)
t. 213.744.9944
Please RSVP at clients@salon-eleven.com
7:30 pm
CINEMA
The Louvre Cinema
Presented in association with Ile de France Film Commission.
•
LA VILLE LOUVRE (CITY LOUVRE)
1990, Kino, 83 min. French filmmaker Nicholas Philibert (IN THE LAND OF
THE DEAF, TO BE AND TO HAVE) chronicles the behind-the-scenes operations
of the Louvre in this fascinating documentary. From the discovery of hidden
artworks to more routine matters of bureaucracy and operations, this film
provides a glimpse of the "city within a city" that the public
rarely sees. Discussion following with the director of the Louvre, Henri
Loyrette.
In French with English subtitles.
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
at 14th Street
Santa Monica
8:30 pm
PERFORMANCE
•Compagnie
Julie Dossavi
P.I. (Pays) or Présentations intimes
 Infusing
contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street
culture, the mesmerizing French artist Julie Dossavi presents a collection
of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics.
The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic
dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape
distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and
always alive with a distillation of human experience. Dossavi has collaborated
with influential choreographers Philippe Decouflé and Joseph Nadj
while also crossing over into the worlds of video and fashion through
projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and Angelique Kidjo.
This project is made possible by Cultures France, a division of the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
in the United States.
RedCat
631 W. 2nd St.
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tickets: $10 to $25
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11
avril | april
Vendredi | Friday
7:30 pm
CINEMA
Double Feature:
•BAND
OF OUTSIDERS (BAND A PART)
1964, Rialto Pictures, 97 min.
French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard told his backers he was delivering
a sequel to BREATHLESS, but instead he created this offbeat meditation
on politics, philosophy and the American gangster movie.
Combining playful slapstick with sudden bursts of violence, this tale
of three bumbling thieves (one of whom is played by Godard's then-wife
and muse, Anna Karina) is one of the director's most original and entertaining
works. Godard concludes the picture with the following narration: "My
story ends here, like in a pulp novel, at that superb moment when nothing
weakens, nothing wears away, nothing wanes."
Musical score by Michel Legrand. With Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey.
•BELPHEGOR,
LE FANTOME DU LOUVRE,
2001, Canal Plus, 97 min.
When a collection of rare artifacts is brought to the Louvre for examination,
a ghostly spirit escapes from the archaeological find and enters the museum's
electrical system.
Before long, the evil spirit Belphegor is wreaking havoc in the famous
museum in director Jean-Paul Salome's fantasy film, which stars Sophie
Marceau, Michel Serrault and Julie Christie.
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
at 14th Street
Santa Monica
8 pm
THEATRE
•Aurélia's
Oratorio
Directed and Designed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin; Performed by
Aurélia Thierrée (Switzerland)
West Coast Premier Tour
Freud Playhouse
Price: $42, 28 adults; $34, 22 kids 12 & under
($15 UCLA students)
Royce
Hall - UCLA
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12
avril | april
Samedi | Saturday
VISUAL
ARTS
DERNIER JOUR :
Anne Laure Sacriste
Galerie
Chung King Project
VISUAL
ARTS
DERNIER JOUR :
Ruth
Bachofner Gallery Exhibit 
The Ceding Sky
by Yvette Molina
(US artist, student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France)
at the Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite G2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
 11
am
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
TSFY: French Composer Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
2 pm and 8 pm
THEATRE
•Aurélia's
Oratorio
Directed and Designed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin; Performed by
Aurélia Thierrée (Switzerland)
West Coast Premier Tour
Freud Playhouse
Price: $42, 28 adults; $34, 22 kids 12 & under
($15 UCLA students)
Royce
Hall - UCLA
4:00 pm
CINEMA
Newly Restored!
THE RED BALLOON
1956, Janus Fims, 34 min. Dir.Albert Lamorisse.
Albert Lamorisse's THE RED BALLOON remains one of the most beloved children's
films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a
young boy discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own.
Wandering through the streets of Paris, the two become inseparable, to
the surprise of the neighborhood and the envy of other children. Winner
of the Palme d’Or at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, the film has
enchanted the young—and the young at heart—for decades, and
it will surely find a new generation of fans with this rerelease.
WHITE MANE
1953, Janus Films, 40 min. Dir. Albert Lamorisse.
In the south of France is a near-desert region called La Camargue. There
lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild
horses too proud to let themselves be broken in by humans. Only Folco,
a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between
the boy and the horse, but they must elude the wrangler and his herdsmen
to live freely. (White Mane is presented in a new English translation,
faithful to the original French voiceover and dialogue, spoken by Peter
Strauss.)
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
at 14th Street
Santa Monica
8:30 pm
PERFORMANCE
•Compagnie
Julie Dossavi
P.I. (Pays) or Présentations intimes
Infusing
contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street
culture, the mesmerizing French artist Julie Dossavi presents a collection
of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics.
The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic
dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape
distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and
always alive with a distillation of human experience. Dossavi has collaborated
with influential choreographers Philippe Decouflé and Joseph Nadj
while also crossing over into the worlds of video and fashion through
projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and Angelique Kidjo.
This project is made possible by Cultures France, a division of the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
in the United States.
RedCat
631 W. 2nd St.
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tickets: $10 to $25
..............................................................
13 avril
| april
Dimanche | Sunday
 •Pétanque
- San Pedro Open Select Triplette
Pour plus d'info concernant tarif et horaires,
consulter l'association Los Angeles Pétanque à losangelespetanque.com
DERNIER JOUR
:
 VISUAL
ARTS
• Exposition
André Kertész: Seven Decades
inclut son travail photographique
lors de son séjour de 11 ans à Paris.
Getty
Center
6pm
CINEMA
•
Movie : La Roue
Co-Presented by LA Film Forum and The Cinefamily
World premiere digital restoration of filmmaker Abel Gance’s extraordinary
work, La Roue (1922), which was created from the best available prints
and negatives from several countries, and which will be accompanied by
a new orchestral score by composer Robert Israel. Gance’s masterwork
is a tragic love story set in the grime and soot of the railway yards,
told with astonishing cinematic technical advances. French filmmaker Jean
Cocteau took note of the film’s transformative power by declaring,
“There is cinema before and after La Roue, as there is painting before
and after Picasso.” By 1923, Gance had established himself as France’s
leading filmmaker, and this film cemented that reputation. Its sophisticated
use of cutting was so innovative that according to Gance, Russian directors
Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin traveled to France and personally
thanked him for educating them in the art of editing.
Dir. Abel Gance, 1923, Digibeta, 273 min.
There will be a 30 minute break for dinner.
Tickets - $12/ $8 for members
Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, 90036
T. 323-655-2510
3:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
•Compagnie
Julie Dossavi
P.I. (Pays) or Présentations intimes
Infusing
contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street
culture, the mesmerizing French artist Julie Dossavi presents a collection
of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics.
The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic
dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape
distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and
always alive with a distillation of human experience. Dossavi has collaborated
with influential choreographers Philippe Decouflé and Joseph Nadj
while also crossing over into the worlds of video and fashion through
projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and Angelique Kidjo.
This project is made possible by Cultures France, a division of the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
in the United States.
RedCat
631 W. 2nd St.
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tickets: $10 to $25
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14avril
| april
|
Lundi
| Monday 7 p.m.
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
•
Christopher
Rauschenberg
Revisiting Eugène Atget’s Paris: A Photo Lecture
In
conversation with poet and essayist, Marisela Norte.
Rauschenberg walked around Paris "in Atget's shoes"
re-photographing many of his predecessor's original locations.
If a trip to the City of Light is not in your immediate future, this
lecture is the next best thing.
Presented in conjunction
with the exhibition "Beyond the Iconic: Contemporary Photographs
of Paris" in the Central Library's Getty Gallery March 1 –
June 1, 2008.
More information can be
found at www.aloudla.org or by calling (213) 228-7025.
Downton L.A.
Central Library |
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14-20avril
| april
CINEMA
•COL.COA
Film Festival 14 au 20 avril 2008
A week of French film premieres in Los Angeles, presented by the Franco-American
Cultural Fund.
http://www.colcoa.org/2008/home/index.asp
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15
avril | april
Mardi | Tuesday
à 10 h 30
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
•
Hidden Compartments, A Revealing Look Inside
French Furniture
Par Charissa Bremer-David, associate curator of sculpture and decorative
arts.
S’inscrire au Bureau d’information à partir de 10 h (limité
à 15 personnes)
Charissa Bremer-David, associate curator
of sculpture and decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, opens doors
and drawers to reveal the hidden interiors and secret compartments of
French furniture in the Museum's galleries.
Limited to 15 participants. Sign up
at Museum Information Desk beginning at 10 am the day of the program.
GETTY CENTER,
getty.edu
•
8:00 pm
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
Chamber Music with French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
Program:
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Roussel: Trio for Viola, Cello, and Flute
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
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16 avril
| april
Mercredi | Wednesday
à 2 h 30 | 2:30 pm
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
 •
Consuming Passion:
Fragonard's Allegories of Love
By Scott Allan, assistant curator of paintings.
(Duration: 1 hour)
GETTY CENTER,
getty.edu
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17
avril | april
Jeudi | Thursday
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
8:00 pm
French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Grieg
Program:
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
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18
avril | april
Vendredi | Friday
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
8:00 pm
French
pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Grieg
Program: Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
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19avril
| april
Samedi | Saturday
CINEMA
4 pm
•
Movie: Marie Antoinette (USA, 1938)
In this lavish MGM spectacle, Norma Shearer gives a fine, sympathetic,
and exquisitely mannered performance as the young Marie Antoinette, whose
arranged marriage to the equally immature Dauphin Louis XVI leads to the
downfall of the French monarchy. Initially capricious and terribly bored,
Marie makes bad choices but in the course of the film develops a degree
of dignity. Marie and Louis eventually consummate their marriage and produce
an heir.
However, their extravagant lifestyle, the people's dislike of a foreign
queen, and massive suffering in the streets of Paris feed the revolution
that brings about their infamous deaths.
Getty Center
Free (Parking $8)
Reservations (310) 440-7300
11 am
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
TSFY: French Composer Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
2:00 pm
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
French
pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Grieg
Program:
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
12:30
pm and 3:00 pm
THEATRE
• CINDERELLA
returns to the Santa Monica Playhouse weekend Family Theatre Musical Matinee
series. This most romantic of all fairytales, opens for a limited run.
French-born actress Celeste Akiki will reprise her role of Prunella
for this run.
Tickets are $10.50 for children (twelve and under)
and $12.50 for adults.
Reservations are always necessary, and may be made by calling the Playhouse
Box Office at (310) 394-9779 ext. 2.
For more information, visit the Playhouse
website
Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street
one block east of the Third Street Promenade.
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20avril
| april
DERNIER JOUR:
VISUAL
ARTS
•The
photo exhibition "Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas
Kirkland," presents 125 images of celebrities among them Brigitte
Bardot and Jeanne Moreau.
Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,‘ Grand Lobby Gallery' in
Beverly Hills. Admission is free
2:00 pm
MUSIQUE | MUSIC
•
French
pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Grieg
Program:
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Walt
Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
323.850.2000
7:30 pm
CINEMA
•
Claude Lelouch In Person!
Double Feature:
Sneak Preview!
ROMAN DE GARE
2008, Samuel Goldwyn Films, 110 min.
Best selling author Judith Ralitzer is researching unlikely places to
find characters for her next bestseller. As luck would have it, a serial
killer with a penchant for magic tricks has just escaped from a high-security
prison, providing the perfect source material for an intricately plotted,
moody mystery. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, this highly
anticipated new film from Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch stars
Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardent as an unlikely pair caught up in a game
with high stakes – and deadly consequences.
A MAN AND A WOMAN
1966, Warner Bros., 103 min.
This Oscar-winning love story is a model of simplicity and fluidity. A
young widow meets a widower at the boarding school that both of their
children attend. He is a race car driver. The scenery, race car sequences
and score all serve to complement their friendship as it slowly emerges
into a romance. Winner of the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. With Anouk Aimee,
Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Discussion in between films with director Claude Lelouch.
In association with COLCOA,
A week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood.
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
at 14th Street
Santa Monica
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22avril
| april
Mardi | Tuesday
•
Chef A Table : Akira Hirose @ Maison
Akira
Club Culinaire of French Cuisine
Maison Akira
Tel (626) 796-9501
713 Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
The Chef A Table dinners start with a Veuve Cliquot cocktail reception
at 7:00 PM, followed by a five-course dinner paired with wines at 8:00
PM.
ClubCulinaire.org
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25avril
| april
Vendredi | Friday
VISUAL
ARTS
 •
Marcel Duchamp Redux
The installation Marcel Duchamp Redux features a dozen Duchamp works acquired
by the Museum during and after the 1963 exhibition, as well as photographs
and ephemera from the retrospective. Ready-mades (everyday or found objects
that become art, thanks to the artist’s idea and designation thereof)
perfectly illustrate Duchamp’s irreverent wit and subversive relationship
to art history.
(Marcel Duchamp, French born 1887-1968)
Norton
Simon Museum of Art
411 W. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
Tel. 626.449.6840
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27avril
| april
Dimanche | Sunday
DERNIER
JOUR | LAST DAY:
•Picasso
at the Lapin Agile -
From the madcap imagination of comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin
comes a fictional meeting between painter Pablo Picasso and scientist
Albert Einstein at a bar in Paris in the early 1900s. Each on the verge
of major breakthroughs, the two talents share a rarefied sense of beauty
and debate the nature of genius. And, they are further inspired by a mysterious
visitor who appears from the future. Paul Provenza returns to the Rubicon
stage, reprising the role he made famous off-Broadway.
Rubicon Theatre Company
Ventura
rubicontheatre.org
.................................................................
28avril
| april
Lundi
| Monday
DERNIER
JOUR | LAST DAY:
VISUAL
ARTS
•"La
Rose Impériale: The Development of Modern Roses"
L'influence de l'Impératrice Joséphine
Bonaparte (Rose de son vrai nom) sur la culture des roses.
Empress Joséphine love's for roses and her influence on horticulture.
Featuring over 100 rare illustrated books, including a first edition of
Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s multivolume work, Les Roses (1817-24).
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Rose
Garden at The Huntington.
The Huntington
Library, San Marino
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30avril
| april
Mercredi | Wednesday
6:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE
| LECTURE
•
Lecture - Collecting French Sculpture at The Huntington and the Frick
French Art at The Huntington Series
Anne Poulet, director of the Frick Collection in New York, will discuss
parallels and contrasts between the collections of French sculpture acquired
by Henry Huntington and his contemporary, Henry Clay Frick.
Free. Friends’ Hall.
Huntington Library, San Marino
Huntington.org
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