Posted in Children, Event, Music, News on October 15, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I know it’s only October but this is an important date for the diary for all those who pack Aix’s ancient cathedral for
the annual carol concert.
It will take place at 16:00hrs on Sunday 2nd December. As regular attendees know, you really do have to be there by 15:30 to get a seat. It is justifiably very popular and a great start to Christmas.
Afterwards, what nicer than a hot spiced wine down at the Christmas market on the cours Mirabeau?
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For new arrivals in town, what nicer than a one hour trip from the Vieux Port to admire the key sites and hear their history?
(more…)
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Here’s the list for all art-lovers out there……
‘Traverser La Lumiere’. 10 Nov 2018 – 31 March 2019
The works of Roger Bissiere, Jean Bazaine, Elvire Jan, Jean le Moal, Alfred Manessier and Gustave Singier. The organisers tell us that this is a post-war group who called themselves non-figurative artists rather than abstract; they have been, apparently, ‘injustement négligé’ at the expense of American artists since the 70s. So let’s see…..
Harry Callahan: French Archives, Aix-en-Provence, 1957-1958. 16 March – 21 July 2019
This photographer was the director of the Photography Dept at Chicago’s Institute of Design; he received a grant and chose to spend his time in Aix, Sept 1957-July 1958. So we will get an insight into Aix in the late 1950s. Little taste here: http://www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr/expositions/prochainement/harry-callahan-french-archives-aix-en-provence-1957-1958.html
Fabienne Verdier. Summer 2019
She has designed posters for the Festival d’Aix 2017 and Rolland Garros 2018; she will be exhibiting Cezanne-themed work.
Good to see a woman headlining here for a change…she uses giant paintbrushes to create her pictures. Watch her work on her tennis poster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyHx5h0YUXA
Egypt. From December 2019
Musée Granet will be presenting items from its Egyptian collection. These were last shown in 1995. They have around 150 items of which many they say are exceptionelles. The curator for this show will be Christophe Barbotin, conservateur en chef au Department des antiquities egyptiennes du musée du Louvre.
It seems museums are increasingly turning out their basements – MuCEM, Avignon, Aix’s municipal museums with their current green-theme – and coming soon, a haul of Egyptian pieces at the Granet. What next will they come up with?
Posted in News, Patrimoine on October 14, 2018| 2 Comments »
The British press has been fulsome in its praise of the Musée de la Romanité in Nimes which opened in June – I couldn’t wait to visit.
Posted in Event, News, Patrimoine on October 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A photo expo ‘Les Paralleles New York-Martigues’ – intriguing title
A new environmental art show at the Musee Ziem
The Fete de la Chataigne
Work on the big bridge, post-Genoa – an update (more…)
Posted in Art, Event, News, Patrimoine, tagged Aix, Musee, Musee des Tapisseries, Musee du Vieil Aix, Pavillon de Vendôme on October 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I recently posted about both MuCEM and the museums in Avignon wheeling out items from their archives, and now it looks like the three municipal museums in Aix are getting in on the act: their theme is vegetation. (more…)
Posted in News, Patrimoine, tagged Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille, Mucem on October 9, 2018| 2 Comments »
…you may be interested in the new space opened in the Fort Saint-Jean in July.
(c) MuCEM, Gabriel Popoff
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