Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel Prize for literature
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. Antoine Compagnon, a professor of French Literature at Columbia University, says there are two periods in Le Clezio’s work: it was more experimental in the 1960s and ’70s, and later it featured traveling and exoticism.
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Picasso et les Maîtres, new exhibition in Paris
There is a new exhibition about Picasso and those who influenced him. It is spread across 3 museums, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Musée du Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until February 2nd.
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Graffiti on snails, not in France!
Graffiti on snail shells, I was intrigued. I was looking for news items on Digg, My profile on Digg, try this hack to get more Diggs on your stories, and I ran across this story about graffiti artists in London who paint the shells of snails in different colors and in graffiti-esque patterns. Graffiti on [...]
Balkan Beat Box live in Toulouse
I just realized that I had written about planning to go to the Balkan Beat Box show in Toulouse but I never wrote how it was. I even had pictures in last Sunday’s photo dump from the show but no review. Well we have not gone to see much live music and we love to [...]
Joe Jackson live at the Bikini in Toulouse
Joe Jackson just performed last night in Toulouse. We went to see the concert. A friend of ours from Philadelphia is his tour manager. He sent us an email to let us know he was going to be nearby and we asked to go. It was a fantastic concert.
Now I really like Joe Jackson’s old [...]
La Fête de la musique, France
In France once per year there is La Fête de la Musique. It happens on June 21st every year. It is the longest day of the year and music occurs throughout every big city and small town. I knew about it but was unprepared for how enormous it would be. Every corner had a different [...]