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Mar 7, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
MARCH 19-SEPTEMBER 8, 2024 Longacre Theatre 220 West 48th Street New York, NY 10036 The show Lempicka dramatizes the life story of the Polish-born artist, whose portraits epitomize the Art Deco aesthetic. A glamorous member of the social and creative scene in interwar Paris, she moved to the United States when World War II broke out, and her star waned as tastes changed. The pendulum has clearly swung back in the other direction. Starring Eden Espinosa and directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel...
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
The French-American singer’s long list of honors includes three Grammy Awards and a 2020 fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, which cited her nearly four-octave vocal range and ability to bring “historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and an enlightened musical understanding to both jazz standards and her own original compositions.” She is currently touring in support of her seventh album, the 2024 Grammy-nominated Mélusine, inspired by a mythical figure half woman, half fish...
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
JANUARY 20-AUGUST 11, 2024 de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style chronicles the role and influence of high-end womenswear in the “Paris of the Pacific.” Among the more than 50 designers represented are Pierre Balmain, Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, Rei Kawakubo, Rodarte, and Alexander McQueen....
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
NOVEMBER 5, 2023-JANUARY 28, 2024 The Kimbell Art Museum 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, TX 76107 Bringing together 70 paintings spanning the French artist’s six-decade career, Bonnard’s Worlds combines outward-looking depictions of Paris, Normandy, and the South of France with intimate interior scenes. Pierre Bonnard is perhaps best known as a founding member of the Nabis, a post-Impressionist group influenced by Paul Gauguin and Japanese prints, but his vivid, luminous canvases attest...
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
OCTOBER 13, 2023-FEBRUARY 18, 2024 The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Avenue New York, NY 10128 Mood of the Moment: Gaby Aghion and the House of Chloé is the first museum exhibition dedicated to the Egyptian-born designer (1921-2014). A member of postwar Paris café society, Aghion founded Chloé (named after a friend) in 1952, offering women effortlessly elegant ready-to-wear clothing that reflected a more free-spirited, modern attitude than the wasp-waisted couture fashions of the day. Some 150...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023-MARCH 17, 2024 The New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 The jeweler’s jeweler Carvin French has handcrafted countless pieces of haute joaillerie for the likes of Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Cartier since opening its doors in New York City in 1954. When he wasn’t busy executing these prestigious commissions, co-founder André Chervin, now 95, channeled his creative energies into producing unique decorative items of his own design with his...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
OCTOBER 27, 2023-APRIL 7, 2024 The National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4 Riopelle: Crossroads in Time celebrates the centennial of the birth of one of most important and internationally acclaimed Canadian artists of the 20th century, who died in 2002 at age 78. Generally associated with Abstract Expressionism, he took an intuitive and highly physical approach to painting, abandoning brushes in favor of palette knives and even using spray cans in his later years....
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023-JANUARY 8, 2024 The International Center of Photography 79 Essex Street New York, NY 10002 Play the Part: Marlene Dietrich presents a selection of about 150 photographs from the 2,000 amassed by Parisian gallerist and tastemaker Pierre Passebon. Taken between 1906 and 1978, the images range from snapshots to formal portraits of the German-American actress, singer, and humanitarian, far ahead of her time in her glamorous androgyny. Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, and Edward...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
OCTOBER 13, 2023-JANUARY 21, 2024 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028 Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism focuses on a nine-week period that the two artists spent in the Mediterranean fishing village of Collioure in the summer of 1905. Boldly exploring new approaches to color, form, light, and perspective, they developed a vibrant aesthetic based on emotion and sensory experience rather than observable reality. The show brings together...
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Tracy Kendrick
OCTOBER 22, 2023-JANUARY 21, 2024 The Barnes Foundation 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130 The first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the French artist in more than 30 years, Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris is a timely reassessment of her distinctive and decidedly female-centered body of work. She was part of the male-dominated Cubist avant-garde in prewar Paris, as well as lesbian literary and artistic circles, and her resume ranged from portraits commissioned by Coco...
