Marie Charrel, writer and journalist, winner of the Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs prize
The Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs prize was awarded on Sunday in Saint-Malo to Marie Charrel, novelist and journalist, for Les Mangeurs de nuit (The Observatory), a novel in which a daughter of Japanese immigrants meets...
Cultural policy: Laurent Wauquiez "accumulates lies and bad faith", according to the Greens
In an interview with the JDD on Sunday, Laurent Wauquiez said that when he took the Region to the left at the end of 2015, "the culture budget was 59 million euros" and "today...
After football and cinema, Éric Cantona launches into song
Éric Cantona is definitely a jack-of-all-trades. After a career in football, he embarked on cinema, theater and painting. He is now trying his luck in music with two titles he composed himself, The friends...
Investigation and record fine after a joke by a comedian on the Chinese army
The severe sanction recently pronounced against a show producer has cast a chill over the Chinese cultural milieu, reminding us that free artistic expression is increasingly limited. Last week, the authorities fined the production...
In Ethiopia, copyists carry on the tradition of religious parchment manuscripts
With a sure gesture, with an inked bamboo stylus, Zelalem Mola copies a religious book onto a parchment. This long and tedious work, explains this Ethiopian Orthodox priest, preserves a tradition and ancient writings,...
Marc Desgrandchamps exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon
"At the limit of the imperceptible": the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon retraces ten significant years of the "master of evanescence", Marc Desgrandchamps, one of the most noted contemporary French painters of his...
A collection of historic penknives stolen from a museum in Sheffield, England
The most cutting-edge collections also have their followers. Twelve penknives and decorative objects dating from the 18th to the 20th century were stolen on the morning of May 14 from the collections of the...
The desert of Jordan and Saudi Arabia conceals the oldest known plans
The oldest map in Europe has spent more than a century, buried and forgotten by everyone in the reserves of the National Archeology Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye; its ancestors from the Middle East have waited...
In dry Iraq, an artist wants to preserve the traditional gondola
Sailing on the Tigris in Baghdad, young Iraqis lead traditional boats. In drought-stricken Iraq, the show is designed by an artist who wants to preserve these marsh gondolas, whose tradition dates back to the...
The Little Mermaid leads the US box office
The live-action version of Disney's The Little Mermaid swept the top spot at the North American box office for its first weekend in theaters, taking advantage of the Memorial Day holiday Monday in the...