Culture in France Podcast
1) Who stole Goya's head? A new documentary asks questions about the treatment of artists
Vying for a prize in the Fipadoc international competition category in Biarritz in January 2019 is Oscuros y Lucientes. Madrid director Samuel Alarcon's second film digs into the mystery surrounding G...Show More
Who stole Goya's head? A new documentary asks questions about the treatment of artists
04:42 | Jan 24th, 2019
2) 'Caravaggio in Rome' - Paris museum hosts rare exhibition
Caravaggio in Rome: Friends and Foes is a compact yet intense exhibition running at The Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris. Some of the most important works of the early 17th-century Italian painter, as...Show More
3) Giacometti's rough-edged frailty on show in Paris
Paris's Maillol Museum was founded in 1995 by Dina Vierny, a model and close associate for 19th and 20th-century sculptor Aristide Maillol. It is currently showing the works of Swiss artist Alberto Gi...Show More
4) Paris exhibition maps out post-WWI turmoil in the east
An exhibition that is part of the French centenary commemorations for the end of World War I provides a fascinating historical and geographical eye-opener, centred on the peace treaties signed after t...Show More
5) Films ‘Shock Corridor’ and ‘Day of the Outlaw’ adapted on stage
At the National Drama Centre in Montreuil, a suburb east of Paris, director Mathieu Bauer's double-bill Nuit Américaine adapts two US movies for the stage. Bauer says it's like "diving into the histor...Show More
6) Central and east Africa and other hotspots in photos in Bayeux
Rosslyn Hyams visits powerful exhibitions of photos taken in central and east Africa, mainly of refugees and internally displaced people near and on the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wh...Show More
7) From James Bond to Marie Antoinette - films shot at the Vaux Le Vicomte palace
In this week's Culture in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams visits the Vaux le Vicomte Fait son Cinéma exhibition in the 17th Century palace and gardensnear Paris. The grounds and rooms have featured in som...Show More
From James Bond to Marie Antoinette - films shot at the Vaux Le Vicomte palace
10:26 | Oct 11th, 2018
8) Paris museum's fresh look at the legacy of performer-rights campaigner Paul Robeson
Culture in France this week climbs to a niche in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris, for a small but powerful exhibition about the life and times of Afro-American international actor, sing...Show More
Paris museum's fresh look at the legacy of performer-rights campaigner Paul Robeson
10:28 | Sep 19th, 2018
9) Les Rencontres d'Arles - America Great Again
America Great Again was a major section of one of the biggest photography conventions in the world, held in the picturesque southern French town of Arles. Rosslyn Hyams reports on the higlights of Les...Show More
10) Paris summer festival offers culture for all ... for free
Still a busy cosmopolitan city, Paris winds down in the summer. But in July the annual performing arts festival, Paris l'été, occupies some of the spaces vacated by schoolchildren and holidaymaking Pa...Show More