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art | Castellucci at La Villette

Staged by Romeo Castellucci, Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony seems to take on all its tragic grandeur. To magnify this monumental work, masterfully conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Romeo Castellucci offers a funereal "song of the earth" from which one does not emerge unscathed.

Symphony No. 2, known as Resurrection, composed by Gustav Mahler between 1888 and 1894, is a literally hallucinatory score. A score that can be listened to as if watching a film. A score that, like many others by its author, initially aroused incomprehension: "If what I heard is music, then I no longer understand music!", the conductor Hans von Bülow told him. Yet it was at the latter’s funeral that Gustav Mahler received, in the form of a funeral march, the inspiration that allowed him to complete this monumental work – right up to this long final movement with a quasi-operatic choir – which became one of his “hits”… Faced with this unconventional object for the world of theatre, this score designed to be listened to with eyes closed, which requires abandoning oneself to the music, Romeo Castellucci has taken the side of implacable humility.

If it is chilling – and even more so today, two years after its creation at the Aix-en-Provence Festival –, if it is permanently imprinted on the retina and memory, the dynamic installation that he has designed has this miraculous quality that it only makes the imponderable magic (and the indefatigable modernity) of Gustav Mahler more audible. In tune with an Esa-Pekka Salonen who seems to experience this music to the end of his baton, the director delivers a moving song of the earth that urges us to be present and alive in the face of the dead. An unforgettable experience.

Photo by Monica Rittershaus via official press release

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art | Akram Khan , Gigenis at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

A prodigiously virtuosic choreographer and dancer, a choreographic emblem of the crossbreeding of cultures, Akram Khan has revolutionized the world of dance. Deeply moving, his style is at once poetic, innovative and spectacular, thanks to an intelligently developed narrative. With a dual culture of Indian classical Kathak and contemporary dance, he has established himself as the magician of encounters and the mixing of genres. This openness to the world is echoed in his new creation: a unique work mixing contemporary dance and traditional dances, presented by an internationally renowned Western choreographer. Akram Khan brings together musicians and solo dancers (stars of Indian classical dance) on stage and occasionally intervenes himself as a dancer. With Gigenis, the choreographer returns to his roots. Drawing on its deep connection to ancestral traditions and its ability to weave narratives through movement, Gigenis transcends time and invokes the collective memories of our civilization. Gigenis is not a mere spectacle, but a profound statement, a manifesto testifying to the importance of tradition in a constantly changing world.

Live music and recorded effects/

World Premiere | Grand Théâtre de Provence-Aix-en-Provence

In co-production with Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Singapore, Sadler’s Wells London, The Joyce Theater New York with the support of its Executive Director and the Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Creation Fund.

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art | The Last Chapter of Pierre Bergé | Sotheby's Paris.

The Last Chapter of Pierre Bergé + Sotheby's

Auction house Sotheby's is proud to present the final act of Pierre Bergé's remarkable Bibliothèque de Pierre Bergé. This final chapter celebrates the legacy of Bergé and breathes new life into the books and manuscripts that went unsold at six memorable auctions held between 2015 and 2022. All lots will be sold without any reserve price.

A knowledgeable bibliophile and avid reader, Pierre Bergé assembled a collection of 1,600 works, music scores, and precious manuscripts, covering more than five centuries—from the 15th to the 20th century—reflecting his distinct and refined taste. As Yves Saint Laurent so aptly put it, "Bergé's taste can be described as the taste of Noailles."

Alongside iconic theatre, poetry, philosophy, and music of Bach, Rameau, Vivaldi, Bergé's global collection includes not only the finest copies of the great French texts of Ronsard, Montaigne, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Apollinaire, but also works from all over the world: Spain, with Federico García Lorca; Russia, with Tolstoy, Chekhov, Mayakovski and Pushkin; Germany, with Goethe as its most famous representative; the English-speaking world, from Sterne to Robert Frost; as well as Italy, Portugal, and Denmark.

/ selected and edited by Andrei Semenski

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art | Hervé Guibert book launch at After8 bookstore

After 8 bookstore announced Paris launch of the US edition of Hervé Guibert’s 1980 “photo novel” Suzanne and Louise, with translator Christine Pichini and editor Jordan Weitzman!

Suzanne and Louise tells the story of two sisters, one widowed, the other never married, recluses in a hôtel particulier in Paris’s 15th arrondissement. Suzanne, the older one, controls the finances. Louise, a former Carmelite, serves as her humble, tyrannical maid.

The author, who is also their great nephew, is one of the few who visits them. Mixing his writing with his photos, Hervé Guibert crafted a unique “photo novel,” reissued here for the first time with a full English translation by Christine Pichini, a new introduction by artist and writer Moyra Davey, and an account of the book’s origins by Thomas Simmonet.

“All of Hervé Guibert’s work, whether image or text, has a strange taboo luminousness—the glow of vistas we’re not supposed to see or name—tableaux at once classically severe and lushly coiling. In Suzanne and Louise, one of Guibert’s most important performances, the queer heat of Suddenly, Last Summer takes on the solemnity of a missal, or a Parisian passion-play remake of Grey Gardens, or Gide on speed. Hervé’s aunts unveil their hair and their feet, their abstemious privacy, their cool-toned beauty of gesture and visage. Christine Pichini, in her exemplary, elegant translation, unearths luminous English equivalents for the no-nonsense refinement of Guibert’s French.”

—Wayne Koestenbaum

“This is an extraordinary book, of critical importance both to newcomers to Guibert and to longtime fans. It’s a fascinating, uncanny portrait not just of Guibert’s great-aunts, but also of the miraculous role art can play in transmuting its subjects, through curiosity and attentiveness, into significant, nearly historical-feeling figures. It may be brief, but I feel certain that it will never leave me.”

—Maggie Nelson

/ selected and edited by Andrei Semenski

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art | Conversation panel "Jean Genet : thief, saint, militant" during Art Basel Paris+

Tom Burr and Ida Ekblad discussion, moderated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Co-curator, Art Basel Paris Conversations gonna take place inside the legendary Petit Palais.

Jean Genet (1910–1986) was a thug, an activist, a writer, director, and playwright, who raged against the very idea of an institution, whether prison or state. Between his rough and mannerist aesthetic, stints in prison, tales of heady sexuality, and commitments against the tyranny of power, he spent his life dignifying the margins. At a time when previously unpublished projects are being rediscovered and exhibited, this discussion will look at the fascination he continues to hold for artists, without obscuring the darker side of his writing.

This conversation will be held in English.

Tom Burr works across sculpture, collage, photography, and writing. Emerging out of the legacies of Minimalism, Conceptualism, feminist art practice, and institutional critique, Burr’s work reflects this history alongside his own biographical coordinates to consider notions of subjectivity and place, desire and states of control, and shifting Queer conditions. Since the late 1980s Burr has exhibited in numerous venues internationally. After attending the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, Burr joined American Fine Arts, Co., where his exhibitions during the 1990s and early 2000s helped to ignite a dialogue around expanded ideas of site specificity, form, Queer subjectivities, and political forces. Solo exhibitions have been presented at Secession, Vienna; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, among others. Burr’s work has been included in Skulptur Projekte Münster; the Istanbul Biennial; and the Whitney Biennial, among other international survey exhibitions. Tom Burr, Anthology: Writings 1991-2015 was published by Sternberg Press in 2015. Burr’s ‘Torrington Project’ (2021-present) is an ongoing inquiry into the artist’s archive and exhibition making, and includes an assembly of works from the late 1980s to the present in an expansive factory building in Torrington, Connecticut.

A comprehensive publication emerging from the project will be published by Primary Information in 2025.

Ida Ekblad lives and works in Oslo. Using painting, sculpture, and poetry interchangeably, the artist transforms motifs found in a wide variety of references including old master paintings, deviant art, and traditional crafts, as well as graffiti, manga, and personal memories. Her expressive works pair painterly gravitas with a mischievous humor, exemplifying her sense of playfulness and fearless appropriation. Ekblad’s practice is focused on our hyper-retinal culture which she tries to visually record and comprehend.

The Art Basel Paris 2024 Conversations program is curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.

Conversations take place in the auditorium of the Petit Palais, directly opposite the Grand Palais.

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art | Teodor Currentzis collaboration with Opera Garnier

Castor and Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau

A return to the sources for Castor and Pollux, a lyrical tragedy by Jean-Philippe Rameau created in 1737 at the Académie royale de Musique and inspired by the episode from the mythology of Gemini.

Rarely performed in its original version – the score was reworked by Rameau himself in 1754 –, the work nevertheless reveals audacity, a sense of contrasts and expressiveness, like the famous “Tristes habillers”. An aria sung by Télaïre mourning the death of her fiancé Castor, who died in combat, before her twin brother Pollux descends into the depths of Hell to ask his father, Jupiter, to bring him back to life.

While this opera celebrates brotherly love, it poses an essential question in the eyes of director Peter Sellars from its prologue: how do you stop a war and its corollaries, hatred and resentment?

Duration: 3h20 with 1 intermission.

Teodor Currentzis was born in Greece, where he began studying music. In 1994 he entered the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory to study with Professor Ilya Musin. He is the founder and artistic director of the Utopia Orchestra and Choir and the artistic director of the musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir. He was the principal conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra from 2018 to 2024.

20 jan - 23 fév 2025, Opera Garnier

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art | Bjork sound installation for Pompidou

Immersive sound installation by Björk and Aleph, presented in the Centre Pompidou, creates an immersive auditory experience that reflects on current environmental challenges, prompting us to rethink our connection with nature and our role in its preservation.

Photo : Björk & Aleph © Vidar Logi ( press release ).

Conceived as a post-optimistic manifesto on nature, this sound work by Björk and Aleph addresses the unprecedented damage to biodiversity and the collapse of ecosystems. The work fuses Björk’s voice, reading her manifesto, with the cries of extinct or endangered animals, harmonizing them with natural soundscapes. Envisioning a future where the resilience of biology creates new combinations in nature, the work gives voice to silent nature, transforming its silence into sound and resonating in our collective imagination. The sounds were edited and produced by Björk in collaboration with Robin Meier Wiratunga, using software from the Institute for Acoustic/Music Research and Coordination and artificial intelligence models.

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cinema | a night with Albert Serra / A Toast to St Martirià - booklaunch

As announced from After8 independent Parisian bookstore: “Hello Weirdos, please welcome weird wondrous filmaker Albert Serra for an evening with Divided's latest publication: A Toast to St Martirià.”

The concept of fiction, that’s to say, living your life as if it were a novel, as if it were something unreal, which is nothing to do with you – you are living it but you aren’t sure exactly how... In fiction there is no difference between daytime and night-time life; wakefulness, dream, repetitive work, the intimacy of bodies, everything is mixed up together... I knew how much energy it demands and I wanted to embrace it completely.

The book is about Serra's process as a film director, his tight conceptual frame, the small town where he is from, nighttime and chaos.

Albert Serra will be in conversation with actor/theorician/local celebrity Baptiste Pinteaux. Divided editor Camilla Wills will also join the event.

Photo credits: instagram.com/smnskph

edited by Andrei Semenski

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fashion | Martin Margiela : the early years, 1988-94

Maurice Auction, in partnership with British fashion expert Kerry Taylor, is organizing an exceptional sale in Paris on Monday, January 27, 2025, exclusively dedicated to Martin Margiela. With 276 lots dating from 1988 to 1994, this sale is the largest ever organized around the designer.

All the lots belong to sisters Angela and Elena Picozzi, who have collected them over the decades, inspired by their mother Graziella Picozzi, a key figure in the Italian fashion industry. This collection is a rare testimony to Martin Margiela's early creations in the late 1980s, supported at the time by Graziella Picozzi, who had perceived the magnitude of his then unrecognized talent.

The Picozzi sisters’ archives are unique in their composition, including many pieces that have never been worn and, in some cases, are still in their original packaging. Angela and Elena, passionate about the house, have often collected the garments in multiples or selected models that were never marketed at the time. Alongside

museum-worthy ensembles, there are also many more versatile garments, offering everyone the opportunity to find the ideal piece.

Live Sale - Monday, January 27, 2025

81, boulevard Voltaire, Paris 75011 France:

- Saturday, January 25 , open to public hours

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fashion | January Sotheby's auction of private Karl Lagerfeld's archives

Karl Lagerfeld has fascinated for more than half a century. A key figure in the luxury goods industry that he helped to build and ceaselessly internationalised, he turned his name and his look into a brand.

In the third installment of the Karl Lagerfeld sale series, Sotheby's is paying tribute to this genius of a designer with the sale of Karl Lagerfeld’s personal belongings from his various residences, presenting an anthology of his personal taste but also of his life and career. The Cologne sale represents his image, multiple and surprising, telling the story of the couturier, the collector, the decorator and the photographer.

An insatiable collector, Karl Lagerfeld created bold interiors throughout his life. He opted for the colourful and playful Italian design of the Memphis group whose humour he had fallen in love with in the 1980s. He then turned to the French decorative arts of the 18th century, which he considered an ideal of elegance and refinement. In the early 1970's, he was equally passionate about Art Deco, which he described as the roots of "this modernity that I am tirelessly searching for".

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dance | Festival d'Automne and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker world premiere in Paris.

As part of a special invitation by the Festival d'Automne, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and director Rabih Mroué shared, over the course of ten months, their thoughts, concerns, doubts, and questions regarding politics, art and life. After numerous exchanges by videoconference, the two artists now come together on the site of the former industrial complex, the new home of the Fiminco Foundation.

A little bit of the moon is an attempt to establish an alternative space between two persons; each belongs to a different medium; trying to find situations in which two threads can form a knot lies on the demarcation line between dance and theatre, where neither medium has the will or even the desire to impose itself on the other. This collaboration revolves around the struggle to find a common territory for sharing, partnership and dialogue in a world that has become full of hatred, revenge and a desperate fight for power. It is an encounter about the meaning of friendship in a world that becomes terrifying to the point of death. Between their ephemeral past(s) and the desperate future, the work will be in the present time, wrapped with short stories, music and poetry and a little bit of dance and theatre.

16-20 dec., world premiere. Festival d'Automne

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cinéma | DAVID CRONENBERG retrospective at Cinemateque Française ( 20 January - 7 February)

From his beginnings, he impressed with grueling films where the flesh, grafted, contaminated, mutilated, represents contemporary fears. But the habit of master of horror is too narrow: celebrated by critics with Faux-semblants, Cronenberg moves from neighborhood theaters to the biggest festivals in the world, and strings together a series of labyrinthine masterpieces where his obsessions unfold – sexuality, psychoanalysis, violence and technological mutations. A look back in his presence over 55 years of career, on the occasion of his latest release, selected at Cannes 2024

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dance | Rudolf Nureyev exhibition at the Opera Garnier

Throughout his brilliant and itinerant career, Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) established an intense and fruitful relationship with the Paris Opera and its Ballet. This begins brilliantly with the Parisian leg of the European tour of the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, during which Nureyev decides to go to the West.

It is then punctuated by the Opera shows in which he regularly participates as a guest star; by the premieres of the thirteen ballets that he gave at the Palais Garnier as choreographer between 1974 and 1992; by the six seasons that he organized during his mandate as director of Dance, from 1983 to 1989; by the creations of the choreographers he invites; by the nominations as Stars of the dancers he reveals; by the creation, finally, of his last ballet, La Bayadère, in 1992, which looks like a testament.

Few personalities have left such a mark on the history of the Paris Opera Ballet: the great classics he bequeathed to the company remain, even today, among the most brilliant jewels of its repertoire. On the occasion of the thirty years since the death of the dancer, choreographer and director of dance, the Paris National Opera and the National Library of France are joining forces to pay tribute to Nureyev and explore the different dimensions of his relationship with the Palais Garnier, its “home”, and present the priceless heritage that it leaves both to France and to the world of dance.

Curators of the exhibition: Inès Piovesan, head of the publishing department (Opéra national de Paris), Antony Desvaux, head of dance publications (Opéra national de Paris), Mathias Auclair, director of the Music department (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Benoît Cailmail, deputy director of the Music Department (National Library of France)

Scenography and graphics: Atelier Deltaèdre, Claire Holvoet-Vermaut and Noémie Grégoire

Rudolf Nureyev at the Paris Opera

till April 5, 2024 at the Opera Library-Museum - Palais Garnier

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ART | Brancusi at Center Pompidou

He is the inventor of modern sculpture. This exceptional retrospective takes you to discover the poetic universe of the sculptor of Romanian origin, Constantin Brancusi, around more than one hundred and twenty sculptures and four hundred works. At the heart of the exhibition: the identical reconstruction of his workshop, the historical matrix of all his creation.

Sculptures, photographs, drawings and films… the “Brancusi” retrospective offers the opportunity to discover all the dimensions of the creation of this immense artist considered the inventor of modern sculpture. At the same time a place of life, creation and contemplation, the artist's studio, jewel of the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art since its bequest in 1957, forms the matrix of this project. An exceptional set of sculptures, playing on the dialogue between the plasters of Atelier Brancusi and the originals in stone or bronze, loaned by numerous private and museum collections (Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, National Museum of Art of Romania, Craiova Art Museum…) are exceptionally brought together. The last Brancusi retrospective exhibition in France, and the only one, dates back to 1995 (curated by Margit Rowell at the Center Pompidou). A unique opportunity to discover this immense 20th century artist in a new light.

March 27 - Jul 1, 2024 Under the patronage of Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic

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cinema | Travestis au cinema cycle at Cinemateque Bercy

A century of comedies, dramas and thrillers, 100 years of masks, makeup, wigs, fishnet stockings and suspender belts. Where we will come across Buster Keaton, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, Ed Wood and his mohair sweaters, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams, as well as some big names – Howard Hawks, Tod Browning, Brian De Palma, Billy Wilder, Sydney Pollack and Éric Rohmer – all of whom knew how to play cross-dressing as a metaphor for cinema and its simulacra. A program established by Noël Herpe, on the occasion of the release of his new book, Travestissons-nous (Capricci).

Victor Victoria, Blake Edwards, United States / 1981 Based on the film Viktor Viktoria by Reinhold Schünzel. With Julie Andrews, James Garner, John Rhys-Davies.

Two unemployed artists put on a cabaret act in Paris in the 1930s. Julie Andrews disguises herself as a man who disguises himself as a woman. A marvel of a musical comedy, where burlesque and misunderstandings serve to better twist gender stereotypes.

march 27 - april 10

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photo | Lettres sur la lumière by Paolo Roversi and Emanuele Coccia published by Éditions Gallimard

Every month, Librairie 7L hosts launches and signings beautiful books. So many opportunities to create special moments of exchange with publishing stakeholders: authors, artists, publishers. ​ New book, "Lettres sur la lumière" by Paolo Roversi and Emanuele Coccia published by Éditions Gallimard Paolo Roversi, portraitist and fashion photographer, and Emanuele Coccia, philosopher and thinker of eternal transformation, chose the epistolary genre to deliver their thoughts to readers.

This correspondence revolves around the theme of light, taking as a starting point the photographer's observations, sometimes technical and always poetic, to which the philosopher responds by broadening the discussion to the broader field offered by philosophy. Over the course of twelve exchanges, punctuated by emblematic photographs by Paolo Roversi, the authors reveal themselves, revealing two unique personalities.

Conversation between Paolo Roversi and Emanuele Coccia at 7 p.m. exactly. 7L Bookstore Bookstore founded in 1999 by Karl Lagerfeld in Paris

The photographer Paolo Roversi and the philosopher Emanuele Coccia chose the epistolary genre to share their thoughts with us. This correspondence revolves around light, taking as a starting point the photographer's considerations, sometimes technical and always poetic, to which the philosopher responds by expanding to the broader field offered by his discipline. Throughout the discussions, punctuated by emblematic photographs by Paolo Roversi, the authors reveal themselves, revealing two unique personalities.

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art | Jean Cocteau retrospective at Cinemateque Bercy

To mark the 60th anniversary of his death, there is a launch of tribute to Jean Cocteau at Parisian Cinemateque . Poet, then poet-filmmaker, preferred to call himself a cabinetmaker, who shot films like others turn tables. The first magic trick, The Blood of a Poet, will be followed by seven other films, including Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus, all to be seen again on the big screen. A retrospective completed by his work as a screenwriter (The Phantom Baron) and dialogue writer (Les Dames du bois de Boulogne), less often celebrated, no less astonishing.

With the support of CHANEL

Nov 23, 6:00 p.m.

The Princess of Cleves, session presented by Marina Vlady Based on the novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette. With Marina Vlady, Jean Marais, Jean-François Poron.

Against a backdrop of intrigues at the court of the Valois, the amorous torments of a princess (Marina Vlady), who unleashes her husband’s jealousy: some 20 years after L'Eternal Return, the Cocteau/Marais/Delannoy trio reforms around the romantic drama by Madame de La Fayette.