FASHION: Madeleine Vionnet

[ 14 September 2009 to 31 January 2010. ] With all the recent agonising over Chanel’s legacy, you might be starting to believe that fashion was a barren wasteland before Coco de-boned the corset. In the business of beauty, blazing celebrity and a juicy personal life too often eclipse sober genius and artistic purity. Madeleine Vionnet is one of those uncompromising revolutionaries, appreciated by [...] [...]

Festival d’Automne

[ 15 September 2009 to 19 December 2009. ] A first-rate multi-disciplinary festival covering theatre, dance, visual arts, and music. Highlights from the program this year include: Merce Cunningham’s company pay homage to the visionary dancer and choreographer, who passed away this year, with a late piece, Nearly Ninety.  A giant-scale work poised between rigor and chaos, featuring 13 dancers in solo, duo and trio pieces. [...] [...]

ART: Photoquai

[ 22 September 2009 to 22 November 2009. ] Created in 2007 by the musée du quai Branly and dedicated to non western, or ‘world’ photography, Photoquai is a new international photography biennial. The curator this year is Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, an Iranian gallerist and founder of the Silk Road Gallery. For this second edition, the musée du quai Branly honours Iranian photography with [...] [...]

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