Festival d’Hyères 2011 finalists announced

France’s prestigious annual fashion festival, which takes place in May in a Mallet-Stevens villa on the Côte d’Azur, and this year presided by none other than Raf Simons, has announced the finalists for this year’s competion: Céline Méteil / France Léa Peckre / France Oriane Leclercq / Belgium Michael Kampe / Germany Maryam kordbacheh / Holland Emilie Meldem / Switzerland Juliette Alleaume [...] [...]

Cannes Film Festival opens today

The Cannes Film Festival opens tonight with Hollywood blockbuster Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. Another out-of-competition Hollywood premiere is Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michael Douglas. Jury president Tim Burton is presiding over films in competition including new works from Mike Leigh, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Takeshi [...] [...]

Centre Pompidou-Metz opens today

The provincial French town of Metz, 1.5 hours east of Paris on the TGV, is France’s latest art destination thanks to the opening of a ‘branch’ of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, marking the first decentralisation of a French public cultural institution. Like its Paris sibling, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is dedicated to 20th- and [...] [...]

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