Freddie Mercury Manuscripts on Display for First Time Before Auction
Manuscripts by Freddie Mercury never presented to the public, in the forefront of which that of Bohemian Rhapsody, will be exhibited in New York, the first stage of a tour before their auction in...
Profession beatmakers, shadow figures of rappers
“Without them, there is no music”, launched about the beatmakers Fadily Camara, mistress of ceremonies of the first edition of the Flames, the Victoires du rap et ses currents, who dedicated a prize to...
Jacques Rozier, the last figure of the “real” New Wave
Filmmaker of the great outdoors and the open sea, Jacques Rozier, who died at the age of 96, became thanks to a handful of films only a figure of the New Wave, admired by...
Sarcophagus, statuettes of deities and animal mummies… Saqqara delivers new treasures
The construction of the Aswan High Dam ended the annual Nile flood cycle; archaeological harvests continue at a regular rate. The last offerings taken from the fertile aridities of Egypt come from the necropolis...
Arc de Triomphe virtually in LGBT colors: the artist reacts to the controversy
An American artist who imagined in a video the Arc de Triomphe redecorated in LGBT colors, creating controversy among Internet users who believed this real installation, estimated on Saturday that "we are ill-prepared as...
Seine, sport and jungle honored for the 21st edition of Nuit Blanche
White water, sweat and strange animals: Saturday evening, the first Parisian Nuit Blanche on sunny days will give pride of place to sport and to the Seine, the scene of the opening ceremony of...
Pioneering composer and opera queen Kaija Saariaho dies
“She died prematurely at the age of 70, but lived a full life. It is in these terms that the family of Kaija Saariaho announced this Friday the death of the famous composer, without...
In Paris, the Festival of the Imagination is springtime
The Festival de l'Imaginaire in Paris, hitherto organized in autumn, takes place for the first time in spring: its 26th edition takes place until June 11 in the capital and in the near suburbs,...
The fabulous ruined fortresses of the Sahara still keep all their mysteries
After hours on the road in the Nigerian desert, they appear like mirages in the middle of a tangled palm grove. Fortresses of salt and clay erected on rocky outcrops, besieged by the sands....
Like each other or the crazy mockery of concerned networks
Alphonse Allais would have dreamed of it. The humorist Philippe Fertray, certainly to pay homage to the one he considers his master of puns, does it by daring to divert the commandment of Christ,...