BANKSY DENOUNCES IN A FRESCO THE SITUATION OF THE HOMELESS

But not just any fresco:

an evocative trompe-l'oeil denouncing the unsustainable situation of the homeless.

It was filmed and posted on Instagram by the artist Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

We can see Ryan, the protagonist of his work.

This man, presented as a homeless person, settles on a public bench with big bags. Then when the field widens we see a stencil representing two reindeer, which seem to drag this bench.

Ryan would he be Santa on his sled?

"God bless Birmingham. During the 20 minutes Ryan was filmed on his bench, passers-by gave him a hot drink, two candy bars and a lighter, "says the legend.

This work is anything but innocuous in the context of a general - ie legislative - election in the United Kingdom, which will take place on 12 December.

Hugues Renson, the vice-president of the National Assembly, relayed this new work, which he said carried a "powerful message about the need for solidarity".

THEATRE A VOIR

LE GONCOURT ATTRIBUE A JEAN-PAUL DUBOIS

Le prix Goncourt 2019 a été remis à Jean-Paul Dubois, pour son roman « Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ».

Etaient également en lice : Soif, d’Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel), Extérieur monde, d’Olivier Rolin (Gallimard) et La Part du fils, de Jean-Luc Coatalem (Stock).

L'annonce a été faite ce lundi 4 novembre, à la mi-journée, au restaurant Drouant (Paris).

« La tempête Amélie n'est pas parvenue jusque la table des Goncourt », a commenté Bernard Pivot, président de l'Académie Goncourt.

Né en 1950 à Toulouse, où il vit toujours dans la maison de son enfance, Jean-Paul Dubois a longtemps été grand reporter au Nouvel Observateur.

Jaloux de son temps et de sa liberté, il l’a quitté le jour même de 2004 où Une vie française (L’Olivier) a reçu le prix Femina.

Le Toulousain Jean-Paul Dubois, 69 ans, écrivain discret et populaire, a construit depuis une trentaine d'années une œuvre qui séduit par sa délicatesse et sa profonde humanité.

Le prix Renaudot a quant à lui été attribué à Sylvain Tesson, pour « La panthère des neiges ».

Eric Neuhoff a reçu, pour sa part, le Renaudot essai pour (Très) cher cinéma français.

LE BOUQUET DE TULIPES DE JEFF KOONS

INAUGURE A PARIS

Le « Bouquet de Tulipes » de Jeff Koons trône désormais dans les jardins des Champs-Élysées entre le Petit Palais et la place de la Concorde (VIIIe).

Symbole de l’amitié franco-américaine au lendemain des attentats de 2015, l’œuvre controversée, offerte par Jeff Koons, a été inaugurée ce vendredi 4 octobre en présence de l'artiste et d'Anne Hildago.

Il s'agit d'une sculpture monumentale, haute de 10 mètres et pesant 30 tonnes,en bronze, acier et aluminium polychromes.

« Symbole de souvenir, d'optimisme, et de rétablissement pour surmonter ces terribles attentats », cette main tenant un bouquet de tulipes composé de onze fleurs colorées évoque

« la perte, la renaissance et la vitalité de l'esprit humain », a rappelé Jeff Koons au cours de l'inauguration où il a invoqué l'esprit de Bartholdi, l'auteur de la statue de la Liberté.

Son bouquet évoque la main de la statue brandissant la torche et dialogue avec le Bouquet de l'Amitié de Pablo Picasso, a-t-il souligné dans son discours.

L'artiste a prévu de reverser les revenus (à hauteur de 80%) perçus au titre de ses droits d'auteur aux associations des familles de victimes. Les 20% restants doivent aller à la Ville de Paris pour la maintenance de l’œuvre.

Jeff Koons, que l'on connaît pour ses œuvres kitsch et ses clins d’œil appuyés à la pop culture, n'en fini pas de déchaîner les passions.

PRIX RECORD POUR LE PARLEMENT DES SINGES

DE BANKSY

Réalisé en 2009, le tableau, du street artist Banksy et intitulé « Le Parlement des singes » - dont le nom officiel est Devolved Parliament - a été cédé à 9,9 millions de livres sterling, jeudi 3 octobre 2019, aux enchères de la maison Sotheby.

Il a été adjugé après 13 minutes « d’enchères disputées » où « dix collectionneurs » ont fait s’envoler le prix, a indiqué Sotheby’s. L’identité de l’acquéreur n’a pas été divulguée.

Le « meilleur moment » pour cette vente avec l'actualité du Brexit

Le célèbre street artist s’immisce à nouveau dans le débat du Brexit après avoir réalisé, à Douvres une fresque représentant un homme en train de casser une étoile du drapeau européen à coups de burin.

La toile met en scène des chimpanzés qui sont assis sur les banquettes vertes de la Chambre des communes, en lieu et place des députés britanniques.

Auparavant baptisé « Question Time » (« La séance des questions »), en référence à la séance hebdomadaire des questions au Premier ministre, le tableau a été retravaillé par l’artiste.

Elle résonne avec l’actualité anglaise, à moins d’un mois de la date prévue du Brexit. « Il n’y a jamais eu de meilleur moment pour mettre en vente ce tableau », avait déclaré lors de la présentation de l’œuvre Alex Branczik, chef du département d’art contemporain Europe de Sotheby’s.

La toile souligne « la régression de la plus ancienne démocratie parlementaire du monde dans une attitude tribale et animale ». En remplaçant les députés par des primates, le peintre présente sa propre théorie de l’évolution parlementaire.

Un post instagram ironique

Bansky originaire de Bristol , dont on ne connaît toujours pas l’identité, a partagé avec ironie sur Instagram une citation de Robert Hughes, critique d’art australien, accompagnée de la légende suivante : « Prix record pour une peinture de Banksy atteint ce soir. Dommage, elle ne m’appartenait plus. », a réagi l'artiste qui l’avait vendue en 2011.

Celui qui défend la non-marchandisation de l'art, dans une société consumériste, a une nouvelle fois innové: Il a ainsi ouvert une boutique éphémère dans la banlieue de Londres, dans laquelle les objets affichés ne sont pas à la vente mais "seulement à des fins d'affichages", écrit-il sur son compte instagram.

UNE BANANE SCOTCHEE A UN MUR VENDUE

120 000 DOLLARS

C'est une banane bien mûre, tout ce qu'il y a de plus ordinaire, scotchée au mur avec un large ruban adhésif gris qui s'est vendue au prix exorbitant de 120 000 dollars à la foire d'art contemporain Art Basel de Miami.

L’œuvre, baptisée The Comedian est vendue avec un certificat d’authenticité mais les propriétaires peuvent remplacer le cher fruit jaune autant de fois qu’ils le souhaitent ! D'autant qu'il va se décomposer...

Comment expliquer un tel prix ?

Si certains estiment que ces ventes sont la parfaite représentation de ce qu'est devenu le monde de l'art contemporain, c'est avant tout l'identité de l'auteur du concept qui explique ce prix démesuré.

Il s'agit de l'artiste italien Maurizio Cattelan,connu pour son art humoristique et provocateur.

L'art provocateur de Maurizio Cattelan

Cet artiste de 59 ans internationalement connu pour ses œuvres subversives a défrayé la chronique plus d'une fois que ce soit avec La Nona Ora, une sculpture hyperréaliste représentant le pape Jean-Paul.

II écrasé sous une météorite,ou avec la sculpture controversée d'Adolf Hitler agenouillé et suppliant vendue aux enchères un peu plus de 15 millions d'euros chez Christie's en 2016 ou encore de l’œuvre intitulée America, simples W.C. plaqués or 18 carats et exposés au musée Guggenheim de New York avant d'être volé, et que les visiteurs pouvaient utiliser librement...

Peut-on encore parler d'art ? On se gardera d'en juger.

Pour le galeriste Emmanuel Perrotin qui expose l’artiste, le travail de Cattelan « nous force à nous interroger sur la valeur qui est accordée aux biens matériels. Ici le spectacle fait autant partie du travail que la banane ».

Toujours est-il qu'un autre artiste a décidé de poursuivre le spectacle, avec un happening très particulier. David Datuna a en effet mangé la banane.

David Datuna, qui se décrit comme un artiste américain d'origine géorgienne installé à New York, a décroché samedi 7 décembre, la banane du mur blanc, l'a pelée puis l'a mangée devant une foule de curieux.

A son tour de  commenter malicieusement son geste comme une « performance artistique » intitulée Hungry Artist  dans une vidéo postée sur son compte Instagram.

BANKSKY IN A UNDERGRUND SPACE IN PARIS

A MUST SEE

« "It's an immersive exhibition, to better communicate a message. Here, the message is striking. We wanted to stay in the rebellious, revolutionary spirit of street art, "said Hazis Vardar, Lafayette-Drouot's manager.

The rebellious frescoes of the mysterious Banksy, whose identity nobody knows, are reconstructed life-size alongside paintings of the famous street-artist British, on the occasion of an immersive exhibition

A revolutionary immersive exhibition of street art

The exhibition entitled The World of Banksy: The Immersive Experience occupies 1,200 m² and three levels, partly underground. 42 frescoes were made on concrete walls alongside 51 framed works by the Bristol street-artist, from private collections.

The Espace Lafayette-Drouot, a new place dedicated to "artertainment" ("contraction of art and entertainment"), named after its founder Hazis Vardar, has conceived an immersive journey completely unpublished through the work of the street artist subscribed to splinters.

The latest, the self-destruction of one of his works at auction at Sotheby's last October (see article)

A captivating stroll through an underground space

The graffiti artist 's work can only be understood in a street context. "It's an immersive exhibition, to better communicate a message. Here, the message is striking. We wanted to stay in the rebellious, revolutionary spirit of street art, "said Hazis Vardar, Lafayette-Drouot's manager.

The experiment starts wisely with a series of framed lithographs lent by private collectors: the anarchist rat, the little girl with the red balloon, Pulp Fiction ...

On an ocher-colored wall are the little girl with the balloon, the dove in armor, but also the launcher of flowers, iconic works signed by the mysterious Banksy.

A tribute to Banksy by several artists

The strolling plunges the viewer into the streets of London, New York, Bethlehem, Bristol and of course Paris in the footsteps of the graffiti artist

The viewer then discovers Banksy murals reproduced life-size by street artists from around the world who wanted to remain anonymous.

Working collectively for thirty days, they reconstructed streets "in normal size" to "recontextualize the work of Banksy," said Hazis Vardar, manager Lafayette-Drouot. Bethlehem Land, the mural painted on the wall of Bethlehem as the stencil of the young woman weeping at the door of the Bataclan in Paris, stolen in January, were returned in full size by a dozen graffiti artists from around the world.

Not the original works but reproductions

The Parisian theater offers an immersion in the most emblematic works of the artist. Forty reproductions punctuate the course: "We can not have the original ones.

They have all been vandalized or removed for some. We can not help but make copies. And especially works that are physically around the world, for those that still exist. So even if someone wants to see them, he should do San Francisco, Paris, London ... around the world! ", Details Hazis Vardar, curator of the exhibition.

When on the art market, his works do not fly or are not cut in situ to be resold under the mantle.

The most famous street artist of his time denounces the tricks of a sick society in works that dress the walls of the world.

The frescoes say innocence crushed by force, but also acts of resistance or insolence against Israeli consumerism or occupation, etc.

The art of the committed Bristol graffiti artist dynamizes its codes, reinventing its rules, while questioning the very foundations of urban art.

A stroll as captivating as it is insane !!! A must see.

The World of Banksy Exhibition: The Immersive Experience

From 13/06/2019 to 29/09/2019

Espace Lafayette Drouot, 44, Rue Du Faubourg Montmartre 75009 Paris

THE GIRL OF VERCINGETORIX HAS HER COVER

And it is a teenage heroine aged 17-18 who is there.

Pouting pout, imperious cheerleading pose in becoming, gigantic braid of red hair and gold necklace here is the face of this new character.

Because for the sixty years of Asterix, the two successors of Goscinny and Uderzo have chosen to put at the heart of this album the crisis of adolescence with a central character Adrenaline.

A heroine with a strong character who will land in the quiet little world of the irreducible Gauls.

With for intrigue:

"The daughter of the famous Gallic leader Vercingetorix, hunted down by the Romans, finds refuge in the village of the irreducible Gauls, the only place in Gaul occupied to be able to ensure its protection.

And the least we can say is that the presence of this teenager like no other will cause many intergenerational upheavals ... ".

This new opus, written by Jean-Yves Ferri and designed by Didier Conrad, promises to be thrilling.

" Effervescence and upheaval in perspective! "

At your bookstores on October 24th for the release of the album, entitled:

The Girl of Vercingetorix !

TONI MORRISON THE AFRO-AMERICAN DREAM

Chloe Ardelia Wofford, aka Toni Morrison, was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, an industrial town in a Midwestern, Ohio, rural state. She grew up in a modest family descended from slaves.

At the age of 12, she chose Anthony as her first name - Chloe Anthony Wofford - and the diminutive, Toni, remains.

A passionate academic of literature

Passionate about literature, she went to Washington in 1949 where she enrolled at Howard University, then reserved for blacks. She graduated in literature from the prestigious Cornell University, and began a university career. Married in 1958 to Harold Morrison, an architect, she has two sons. The couple divorced six years later.

In 1964, Toni Morrison moved to Syracuse, New York where she became a textbook publisher. At the same time, she began her writing career with her first book, The Bluest Eye , in 1970. But the young woman is even bigger: the publishing house in which she works has just been bought by the prestigious Random House. Toni Morrison wants to propose to publish books that speak to women, or even blacks.

After all, "Things were very simple at the time," says Morrison. I was young, I started writing when I was 39 years old. It is the summit of life. My children were a real liberation because their needs were simple. (...). The children did not pay attention to my hairstyle, did not care about my appearance. She said in 2012 to a Guardian journalist.

Preserve the memory of the black American people

Ambitious project that this one. How to preserve the memory of the black American people?

Toni Morrison grew up in a time when segregation was still in effect. When it arrives in Washington in 1949, buses still carry signs "reserved for people of color": this separation will be legally abolished in 1964 with the law on civil rights.

From his new office in New York, Toni Morrison moves heaven and earth to find witnesses of the civil revolution that is agitating the United States. 1967 will be the official year of the end of segregation, the beginning of the 70s will be that of the entry of black literature on the American book market.

Toni Morrison offered the opportunity to Mohammed Ali or Angela Davis but also the Black Panther Huey Newton and the poet Henry Dumas to express themselves on paper. A subtle literary revolution that will push its instigator to take the plunge.

A militant writer

"I ended up writing books because I wanted to read. But I could not publish them since no one had written them yet. "

The Bluest Eye (1970) is the story of Pecola praying night and day to have blue eyes and who will lose faith. This first book, Toni Morrison will then take 10 years to write it starting when she is still a professor at Howard University. It was not until 1970 that Chloe Athony Wofford metamorphoses fully into Toni Morrison and reveals her true nature: that of a militant writer.

The themes that are discussed - racism, incest, abuse - will detest the forbidden book in many schools and public libraries. The Bluest Eye will be hated by both blacks and whites. "To romance the daily life of an African-American family in the grip of the reality of white supremacy and the internal violence of the black community risked emulating them. "

An open letter - published in the New York Times in 1988 - signed by the hands of 48 African-American writers will finally point to the immense work of Toni Morrison that literary academies will no longer be able to ignore. The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), The Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981) were recognized by critics after Beloved (1987) caught the attention of the Pulitzer Prize jury.

Five years later, the child of Ohio receiving the first Nobel Prize awarded to an African-American author - installs his work to the world's pantheon of literature.

In all, Toni Morrison leaves a bibliography of 11 novels written between 1970 and 2015 but also essays, children's books, two plays and even an opera libretto. The author has explored the entire history of black Americans since their enslavement until their emancipation in the current American society in an irreplaceable style, always fleeing simplism and Manichaeism.

Délivrances, his latest novel, which unfolds nowadays, is tinged with touches of hope.

STREET ART THE BANKSY REBEL FRESKS EXHIBITED IN PARIS

"With this immersive exhibition, we wanted to stay in Banksy's rebellious and revolutionary spirit. I wanted to create an emotional shock so that people better understand his work and his messages of love and peace, "says Hazis Vardar space manager Lafayette-Drouot

Come re-discover his works at the space Lafayette-Drouot who saw the big picture: the exhibition - which wants to be immersive - extends over 1,200 m² and three floors, partly underground. The necessary place to accommodate the 42 frescoes, made on concrete walls several meters high.

The immersive exhibition devoted to the star artist of street - art opens its doors this Thursday, June 13 in Paris. You will have an exciting walk to better understand the work of Banksy.

The Bristol unknown

Internationally renowned today, after several media hits, the artist loves to shock, provoke, disrupt society and that is what makes all the beauty of his work. It has imposed on the world its ability to break the rules by proposing a complex vision of society

Originally from Bristol, admired from New York to Paris, through Palestine each of its traces leaves on the walls of the detonating memories.

Through the presentation of a hundred works, some original and others reconstructed, the exhibition plunges us into the heart of the world of the mysterious and rebellious artist known worldwide for his fight against injustice and violence.

Frescoes by Banksy, a street-art pope whose face and identity are unknown , are magnificently displayed. The exhibition was also able to count on the loan of private collectors. A total of 51 works by the British street artist are displayed.

A committed work

In a first room the visitor begins the exhibition including seeing rat stencils, animal dear to the artist to denounce the tricks of our society. Then the visitor comes out of the shadows to find himself projected into a concrete decor in the Middle East. "Bethlehem Land", the wall mural of Bethlehem on which Banksy painted a donkey and a soldier side by side is reproduced on a wall 5 m high.

It denounces the Israeli occupation of Palestine. With the sound of a buzzing helicopter, "Fouille in rule", which represents a girl and a soldier, moves the walker, as well as "The dove of peace" or the "Launcher of flowers".

Then the visitor wanders in the vast and dark room dedicated to the Parisian works of Banksy realized last year. It is there that is exposed, repeated identically by several artists, "The young woman weeping at the door of Bataclan" with at his feet, a candle and some roses.

This painting, made in tribute to the 90 victims of November 13, 2015, was stolen six months later, raising widespread indignation. You can also admire "The girl covering a swastika", a drawing discovered along the Paris ring road near a former reception center for migrants.

Frescoes reproduced identically

"With this immersive exhibition, we wanted to stay in Banksy's rebellious and revolutionary spirit. I wanted to create an emotional shock so that people could better understand his work and his messages of love and peace, "says Hazis Vardar, Lafayette-Drouot space manager.

If the fifty or so original works of the artist, framed, comes from private collections, the many frescoes have been made on site by the identical by a dozen street artists from around the world. All at first had refused the proposal of this institution. "But when they realized that they had carte blanche to reconstruct real-scale streets in order to recontextualize Banksy's work, they all agreed," says Hazis Vardar. It was with the help of five workers that they managed to paint collectively 24 hours a day for a month.

And all wished as their master to remain anonymous to prolong the mystery ...

"The World of Banksy Exhibition: The Immersive Experience", from June 13 to July 31, 2019, at Espace Lafayette-Drouot, 44, rue du Faubourg Montmartre. (Paris 9th).

THE MOST EXPENSIVE WORLD CHART

"SALVATOR MUNDI" BY LEONARD OF VINCI

WOULD BE ON MBS YACHT

At least that's what Kenny Schachter, an art market specialist who believes he has located Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, has been missing since he was bought for a staggering amount a year and a half ago.

The "Salvator Mundi" has disappeared since its purchase a year and a half ago. The painting was acquired for $ 450 million at an auction held in November 2017 by Christie's, spiking all records in the art market.

Since then, the painting where Christ emerges from darkness, blessing the world with one hand while holding a transparent globe in the other, has never been shown in public. Some scholars have judged that it might have been done by Leonardo's disciples and not by the master himself.

While waiting for the development of a cultural site? Officially, it was acquired to complete the Louvre Abu Dhabi collection.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the buyer is actually the Saudi prince Badr ben Abdallah, acting on behalf of the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, nicknamed MBS, which has never confirmed or denied.

Located on a yacht Kenny Schachter, a collector and art dealer based in London, reinforces this hypothesis on the site Artnet.com, devoted to the art market. For the specialist, the painting will remain at sea until Saudi Arabia manages to transform the Al-Ula region into a cultural site attracting international tourists.

At the beginning of the year, international musicians have already performed there, in a glass auditorium erected in the middle of the pre-Islamic ruins of this desert area of ​​northwestern Saudi Arabia.

SCULPTURE OF JEFF KOONS

SOLD FOR A RECORD SUM !!

A record-breaking sales price, the latest being held by the British painter David Hockney and his painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), auctioned at $ 90.3 million last November.

For the American artist it is a nice revenge since he was already the record holder with his Balloon Dog, before David Hockney stole the show.

The Rabbit represents the steel casting of a rabbit and is part of a series of three sculptures made by Jeff Koons in 1986.

It is one of the best-known works of the artist who has shaken up the conventions of the world of the arts. Top of 104 centimeters, it comes from the collection of Samuel Irving Newhouse, former boss of the press group Condé Nast, which includes magazines Vanity Fair, Vogue and The New Yorker.

Jeff Koons, aged 64, has been a regular source of controversy since the 1980s, notably with his paintings and sculptures in which he copied with the former Italian film star La Cicciolina, whom he married in 1991, before being divorced in 1994.

OUR LADY OF PARIS OUR LADY OF THE SOUL

She watched us from the top of her 69 meters and eight centuries before being ravaged by a terrible fire.

All eyes were raised on the basilica, dazed, all the lips murmured slowly, stunned:

"All eyes had risen to the top of the church. What they saw was extraordinary.

On the top of the highest gallery, higher than the central rose window, there was a great flame that rose between the two spiers with whirlwinds of sparks, a large, disordered flame, and rose between the two spiers with swirling whirlpools. sparks, a great, disorderly and furious flame, whose wind at times carried away a rag in the smoke. (...)

Above the flame, the enormous towers, each of which showed two raw and sliced ​​sides, one all black, the other all red, seemed to be still larger with all the immensity of the shade they projected into the sky. "(Book III).

Hugolian words to heal our distress in the face of this terrible tragedy that is killing us all.

The dark and romantic Gérard de Nerval had also devoted a few verses in a poem (1830), evoking the premonitory end of this Great Lady.

"But in a thousand years time will falter

Like a wolf makes an ox, this heavy carcass,

Will twist his nerves of iron, and then a dull tooth

Will sadly gnaw his old rock bones! "

Let's leave the last word to novelist Ken Follett: "Miraculously, a good part of the cathedral has survived. Even part of the vault has survived. The builders of the Middle Ages were even better than we thought.»

PAULINE BOTY EXHIBITION

THE PIONEER OF POP ART

Pauline Boty, the only woman in the British branch of the movement, beautiful as an actress (she was a bit), prominent figure of the swirl called Swinging London is one.

But his career was so fast and fast that his works fell into oblivion (born March 6, 1938-died July 1, 1966).

It was only in the 90s that his name began to be known by art historians specializing in British Pop Art.

And only in 2013 a retrospective was organized for her.

Trained in the art of stained glass at the Royal Academy of Arts, she imposes herself and imposes her femininity in a world of men.

She is the only English painter of this movement alongside Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton or David Hockney. Many members of the London scene fell in love with her.

A young singer named Bob Dylan would have composed the song Liverpool Gal for her.

But everything stopped abruptly in 1965 overwhelmed by cancer.

"She continued to entertain her friends and even sketched The Rolling Stones during her illness. "

* A heroine, we tell you.

Her paintings were like her: sexy and provocative.

His canvases provoke our eyes and our mind by the subjects treated as by his large flat areas of bright colors:

A gluttony close-up-his diptych It's A Man World I & II (1965) pits the machistadors of the time (Kennedy, Elvis ...) to simply naked women- icons of the sixties - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marilyn Monroe, Monica Vitti ... - or her look at Cuba and the missile crisis.

The French collector, Charles-Henri Filippi, discovering this feminist artist, remained captivated by his paintings.

Come and discover them at the exhibition-sale at the house Piasa.

"The Remains of Love. Last look before Brexit ".

From March 29 to April 18 at Piasa, 118, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris VIII.

THE HOUSE HAUTEVILLE HOUSE OF VICTOR HUGO REVERTS TO THE PUBLIC

He then moved to Guernsey where he acquired Hauteville House in 1856, thanks to the proceeds of the sale of the collection, Les Contemplations.

Remaining family property until 1927, Hauteville House is donated to the City of Paris, on the occasion of the centenary of Romanticism, by Jeanne Nègreponte, the granddaughter of Victor Hugo, and the children of Georges Hugo, his little -son.

Built on the heights of Saint Peter Port, Hauteville House was the home of Victor Hugo during his exile in Guernsey and the only property of the writer.

Place of writing of many masterpieces - Les Miserables, Sea Workers, The Man Who Laughs, The Legend of the Centuries, The Theater in Freedom ... - it is also a total work of art by its development and his sets designed by Victor Hugo himself.

The Breton businessman François Pinault, 82, made possible the renovation of this building whose decoration atypical corresponds to the creativity of Hugo.

"Autograph three-story, a poem in several rooms", according to Charles Hugo, a work in its own right, the house immerses the visitor in a unique atmosphere.

The visitor entering the house is first crushed in a narrow entrance to an alleyway, with narrow halls and staircases, in almost funereal darkness.

The brightness of the third floor of Hauteville House, where the "look-out" in glass, adjacent to a modest room, contrasts with this darkness.

The great writer Victor Hugo worked there in front of the sea and slept in a bed that he folded in the company of a silver cross that this anticlerical believer kept close to him.

Winter garden, oak gallery, red salon and blue salon, Chinese lacquer panels, colonnades and neo-Gothic stalls, family portraits, drawings of the famous series of "souvenirs" of his travels, tapestry, framed hangings of oaks , walls and ceiling covered porcelain:

all assembled heteroclite.

Hugo liked reworking ordinary objects, diverting them. From a curious candelabrum, he wants to make a fire tree through which to raise the gas.

Inscriptions like "Nox, Mors, Lux" ("Night, death, light") or "Perge, surge" ("Get up, stay up") say his obsessions. For Gérard Audinet, director of Victor Hugo's houses, Hauteville House is "a writing house".

All the symbolic Hugo is in this house of exile of the great man who planted the oak of the United States of Europe July 14, 1870, just before his return to France.

LE DESAMOUR D'ANGELA MERKEL

POUR  EMIL NOLDE

L'on sait que la chancelière Angela Merkel aime les opéra de Wagner, l'on savait moins qu'elle aime aussi les tableaux d'Emil Nolde. Dans le vaste bureau de 140 mètres carrés situé au 7e étage de la chancellerie qu'elle occupe maintenant depuis 12 ans, deux tableaux du peintre expressionniste allemand en ornaient les murs. Ces deux toiles sont un prêt de la Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz,la fondation de l'héritage culturel prussien, qui va les récupérer aujourd'hui en échange de deux tableaux de l'expressionniste Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, un contemporain de Nolde,

Pour la chancelière cet échange arrive à point nommé. En effet si Emil Nolde était considéré comme un « peintre dégénéré » par la propagande nazie, avec interdiction par Goebbels d'exercer son métier Nolde était aussi membre du NSDAP, fervent défenseur de l'idéologie nazie.

Une facette beaucoup moins flatteuse qui faisait du peintre un antisémite et un raciste convaincu.

Ce sont des recherches effectuées dans le cadre d'une grande exposition, « Emil Nolde. Une légende allemande. L'artiste sous le national-socialisme », qui ouvre la semaine prochaine au musée Hamburger Bahnhof de Berlin, qui ont permis à un historien d'exhumer ce passé sulfureux.

Les toiles de Nolde sont exposées à la chancellerie depuis l'époque Helmut Schmidt , fervent admirateur du peintre et possédant même plusieurs de ses toiles à titre privé, tout comme l'ancien président Richard von Weizsächer.

Un mythe qui s'effondre...

A STOLEN PICASSO BOARD FOUND

The painting, also called Bust of a Woman, had disappeared twenty years ago from the yacht of a Saudi Sheikh.

Twenty years of police research, twenty years in vain until Indiana Johnes of the art market, Arthur Brand, get their hands on it.

For the little story :

The painting, representing the mistress of the Spanish artist, was part of Picasso's private collection until his death before belonging to a Saudi Sheikh who had hung it in his yacht.

In 1999, while the boat was moored in the port of Antibes, the painting was stolen ...

It was only in 2015 that a mysterious letter informs our Detective Brand of the existence of "a Picasso and a boat".

Brand also learns that a "Picasso stolen from a boat" was used as a bargaining chip in illicit transactions in the Netherlands.

Mid-March, it sounds in the middle of the night at the door of Mr. Brand.

A man working for a Dutch businessman gives him the famous cloth wrapped in a sheet and black garbage bags.

It took four years of investigation to our true Indiana Johnes detective.

"Since the theft (in 1999, ed), the painting had to have changed ownership a dozen times," says Brand in Le Monde.

A feat among many others for this hero like no other.

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR

OR THE ROSE OF SABLES

it is Jean Nouvel, the inescapable visionary architect .Inaugured with great pomp on Wednesday, March 27th, the "rose of the sands" is the latest creation of the achitecte-star.

A rose of sands 350 m long and 34 000 square meters surface, which seems to emerge from the sand in the middle of the buildings on the corniche of Doha.

An entanglement of monochrome sand-colored discs. 539 petals ranging from 14 meters to 87 meters in diameter. The building flourishes on a large square, which Jean Nouvel has described as a "caravanserai, place of meetings and entertainment".

A huge pool and its 114 fountains signed Jean-Michel Othoniel.

"The rose of the sands is often considered by desert men as a lucky charm and it is also a mystery as to its manufacture for millennia.

But we did not know how she was inside and we find out today. Inside the museum, all the blades continue to cross and we will live there a series of discoveries of unpredictable spaces. "

Let's dive into this extraordinary institution that offers its visitors a real immersion, made possible by technological innovations, both visual and sound.

The interior is made up of eleven galleries running for 1.5 kilometers, and 7,000 square meters of exhibition space. No vertical, everything is curved, oblique, inclined.

Very advanced technologies to make you dizzy. The floor itself leans a little. "To build a building 350 meters long, with its large curved discs, intersections, cantilevered elements, it was difficult to meet enormous technical challenges," said Jean Nouvel, during the inauguration to the press.

A 1.5 km trail tells the story of Qatar since 7000 years little cluttered archaeological and ethnographic, Bedouins being nomadic.

To compensate for the absence of these pieces videos made by Jacques Perrin, the Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrhamane Sissako (Timbuktu) or the Indo-American Mira Nair. One finds oneself thus projected in a sandstorm, in the middle of the fishermen of pearls or still in the tent with Bedouins.

The museum traces the history of a country with three economic miracles:

the fishing of pearls, the discovery of oil and that of gas. Three "miracles" for this young state of Qatar who, in less than 50 years, went from tents in the desert and pearl fishing to a country with high GDP per capita.

On Wednesday evening, the National Museum of Qatar was inaugurated in the presence of the country's Emir, Prime Minister Philippe, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, and many stars like Johnny Depp, Naomi Campbell, Rem Koolhaas, or Jeff Koons.

TUTANKHAMUN

THE TREASURE OF PHARAOH IN PARIS

Howard Carter found clues suggesting that Tutankhamun was buried in the Valley of the Kings. In 1922 he finally discovered the fabulous tomb of the young pharaoh, lost under the sands.

He then described himself as "dumb with stupor, his hands trembling", lighting up with candle those jewels hidden from view for millennia. It is the only Egyptian royal tomb found intact, the others being abundantly looted over the centuries.

A dazzling discovery: a plethora of furniture, clothes, jewels, objects ornaments, statuettes and other ritual pieces that were to accompany the deceased on his journey to the afterlife and to rebirth.

Objects in a remarkable state of preservation, having slept for nearly three millennia underground.

Tutankhamun, a young minor pharaoh who ruled for ten years around 1340 BC between the ages of nine and 19, was buried with the honors due to his rank, with all the objects that were to accompany him on his journey through the afterlife.

And the visitor to cross the beyond also through the course of the exhibition.

Large openings connect the rooms of the exhibition which symbolize the twelve doors that the deceased had to pass successively to reach the beyond. Threatened that he was by ferocious beasts or supernatural creatures ...

A beautiful statuette of the sovereign, in gilded wood, shows him riding a black panther, divinity capable of protecting him in his nocturnal journey to the beyond. But the pharaoh also protected himself with weapons like the golden ceremonial club, boomerangs, or shields of carved wood. Tutankhamen also grabs a lion by the tail as a sign of power.

What fascination in front of the two headrests, in blue faience, of the color of the sky which symbolized the magic rebirth in the afterlife. Or these wooden boxes inlaid with ebony and ivory then containing the clothes of the pharaoh.

And the large, gilded, real-sized statue - the only obsidian-eyed one of the guardian - marks the transition to rebirth in the afterlife.

The mummy of Tutankhamun, remained in the tomb. She lodged in a succession of coffins nested inside one another. We discover a series of ornaments, amulets and jewels, gold bands encrusted with stones and faience ...

He reigned more than three thousand years ago on the most powerful civilization around the Mediterranean.

We fall in love with these 150 Wonders of Tutankhamun's Treasure - out of 5000 pieces extracted by the team of the British archaeologist!

That we are less convinced by this rather grandiloquent staging - videos, music, enlargements of images - organized by an American team that organizes a world tour in ten cities.

One of the key pieces, however, is missing. Since his visit to France in 1967 during the "exhibition of the century", the funerary mask, symbol of the treasure of the pharaoh, is now forbidden to leave the Egyptian borders.

"Tutankhamun, the treasure of the pharaoh", until September 15, Grande Halle de la Villette, 10 am to 8 pm every day, rates 18-24 €, www.expo-toutankhamon.fr. To read: "The fabulous discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun", Howard Carter (Libretto, € 8) and "Tutankhamun" Zahi Hawass (Citadels & Mazenod, € 49).

BRODWAY IN PARIS GUYS AND DOLLS

It is a monument of the musical on the other side of the Atlantic since the 50's never played in France.

It was not until the recent reopening of the Théâtre Marigny, and the audacity of its director Jean-Luc Choplin, to discover this masterpiece of Broadway.

Two theaters have a bit of Broadway singing in Paris.

The Mogador Theater annually raises the success of Anglo-Saxon music.

Programming is never wrong with Mamma Mia !, Sister Act, The Lion King, Grease or Chicago.

In the first half of the season, Théâtre Marigny put Jacques Demy's Peau d'Âne in more than magical settings.

And now Guys and Dolls, showing from March 13 to July 27. In Manhattan, however, it has been played since the 1950s.

At the time of its creation, the play had even won five Tony Awards, the Oscars of Drama.

The story is simple: Nathan Detroit (Christopher Howell), a gambling den, challenges Sky Masterson (Matthew Goodgame), an inveterate bettor, to seduce Sarah Brown (Clare Halse), a young Save-a-Soul missionary, kind of Salvation Army.

He must succeed in inviting this girl to Havana, or he will have to pay 1000 dollars.

The whole plot is based on the confrontation of these two worlds:

that of bad boys, robbers in three-piece suits and big cigars, versus that of young girls in flower who dream only of happy marriage.

Guys and Dolls a little condensed with joy and good humor. The magic of Broadway operates!

On display from March 13 to July 27.

ANDY WARHOL

EXCEPTIONAL EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK UNTIL MARCH 31

Until March 31, 2019, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York pays tribute to American artist Andy Warhol. Discover his most beautiful masterpieces!

"Warhol is an artist of our time especially in full-blown selfie, in which everyone is the star of his own photo or his own film," acknowledged Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of Art's New York institution.

The Pope of Pop-Art, who died in 1987, is the author of these iconic paintings diverting photos of boxes of soups or portraits of Marylin Monroe.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of its birth, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York offers a complete retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol. To be seen until March 31, 2019. The exhibition is titled "Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again" (Andy Wahrol A to B and so on) in tribute to a book title written by Andy Wahrol on his "philosophy".

Under the curation of curator Donna De Salvo, who worked with the artist during the last months of her life, the Whitney Museum, which specializes in modern and contemporary American art in New York, has launched.

More than 350 works of art have been collected

This retrospective organized in chronological order is in any case exceptional because never so many paintings of Andy Warhol have been collected in one place! In total, you can discover 350 works from the largest museums in the world but also from private collections. The organizers insist on the fact that several works are presented together for the first time.

In addition to the paintings, the exhibition also invites you to discover films and videos shot by Andy Wahrol. The Pop-Art spirit will surprise you again!

The exhibition, which is spread over three levels of the museum, embraces the entire career of Warhol, since its beginnings as an advertising illustrator to his journey in abstraction.

Without drowning the visitor, thanks to a demanding selection, "Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again" also presents the artist in all its dimensions: draftsman, painter, photographer, videographer, producer of show, publisher (of the magazine Interview ") and even curator of his own exhibitions.

A significant part of the installation, which includes over 300 works, is dedicated to video, which the silver-haired dandy used for documentaries, experimental films, cultural programs and commercials.

In addition to this multi-media dimension, the exhibition evokes a Warhol in perpetual motion, eager for experiences, moved by the inspiration of others as well as his own, whose imprint endures. "Warhol's themes - mass media, celebrity culture, show business and politics - shape our lives perhaps more today than in life," says Adam Weinberg.

Behind the aesthetic dimension lies an eminently political artist. At the center of everything, the image and the power of representation, a reflection structured by its advertising experience, during the 1950s.

From Campbell's soups to Coca-Cola, from Marilyn Monroe to Mao Tse-tung, Andrew Warhola - from his real name - plays with the icons of his time, while tirelessly documenting his own life and work, to the point of becoming, himself, a mark.

The exhibition reflects his taste for serigraphy, bright colors and these famous repetitive images, it also shows that Warhol has never been locked into this form of expression, even if it owes its success. In 1978, at age 50, he began the Shadows abstract series, purposely stripped of pop imagery.

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol, recognized advertising, uses a direct technique in his advertising drawings: drawing his creations on waterproof paper, he passes the contours of ink still wet on sheets of absorbent paper, on the principle of the blotter . At that time, many painters are also advertising illustrators, but do so discreetly. Warhol, on the other hand, is so well known as an advertising artist that the rest of his artistic work is not taken seriously.

It was in the 1960s that Warhol began making iconic paintings of American products such as the Campbell Soup Company's Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as celebrity paintings such as Marilyn Monroe, Troy Donahue , and Elizabeth Taylor.

He founded "The Factory", his studio, over the years and has gathered around him a wide range of artists, writers, musicians and "underground" celebrities.

Through silkscreening he produced by seeking not only to make "mass-produced" products artistic, but by popularizing the mass production of art itself. By minimizing his role in producing his work and declaring that he wanted to be a "machine", Warhol unleashed a revolution in art.

He has the idea to elevate the images of popular culture to the rank of elitist art, joining the artists of pop art, movement launched in London in the mid-1950s by Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, who experiment independently of each other. If Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns are the pioneers, Andy Warhol will be the "Pope of the Pop" and is considered the master.

In 1963, he adopted the technique he would use for his most famous works: screen-printed photography on canvas . The simplified photographs in black and white, without gray, are printed in silkscreen on the canvas painted with large areas of color. The pattern is sometimes reproduced several times on the canvas, like a pattern of wallpaper. This is the stereotype of pop art 10

The favorite motives will be registered trademark names, the dollar symbol, the faces of celebrities. The tone, both popular and iconoclastic, is inspired by popular culture.

At Warhol's image, its power within the consumer society is linked to death. The repetition of the figure often refers to its exhaustion.

The choice of subjects is related to this obsession with death, including Marilyn Monroe's famous screen-printed canvases (painted after her death, especially the Diptych Marilyn) or Liz Taylor (painted while the actress was seriously ill). infinitely reproducible icons that become images of consumption.

In the last years of his work, Warhol applied his style to numerous command portraits, while continuing to experiment with other pictorial techniques in his series Shadows, Oxydation paintings, and his covers of paintings by Botticelli or Leonardo da Vinci.

THE ORIENT OF THE PAINTERS OF THE DREAM AT THE LIGHT MUSEUM MAMOTTAN PARIS

"The color has me. There is no need to seize it. She owns me, I know it. That's the meaning of the happy moment: the color and I are one. I am a painter. ", Notes Paul Klee in his diary during the trip to Kairouan in April 1914.

For this event, the Museum invites us to travel with the exhibition "The Orient of painters, from dream to light", which shows fifty masterpieces, symbols of Orientalism, all from largest public and private collections in Europe and the United States (Louvre Museum, Orsay Museum, Augustinian Museum in Toulouse, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in Madrid, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute of Williamstown).

From the sensuality of harem women to arid landscapes, this passion for the Orient brings out the power of color, which emancipates itself, and sees the emergence of abstraction.

And it is above all a renewal of the spectrum of colors that these travels will bring: in the face of the dazzling light of the Orient and unknown natural spectacles, painters invent new ways of painting.

At the beginning of the exhibition "Orient des Peintres", we find Ingres and Delacroix gone to the East, Ingres immortalizing the Grande Odalisque (editor's note: harem's wife), Delacroix and Chassériau bringing a more real but no less classical vision of the countries .

Then from Gérôme and Landelle to Vallotton, without forgetting Migonney, Bernard, Matisse or even Paul Klee, the exhibition Orient des Peintres reveals to us how during a visit the Orient fantasized turned into an initiatory journey for painters Europeans who come back transformed and then offer unpublished works.

There are also two paths, that of the human figure and that of the landscape with Ingres's "The Little Bather" (1828, Paris, Louvre Museum) and "Innenarchitektur" (Interior Architecture, 1914, Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum). ) by Paul Klee.

These two lines enlighten each other throughout the journey increasingly carried by a real knowledge of the East but always nourished tradition and fantasy.

"We must look at this people at the distance where it is convenient for them to show themselves: men at close quarters, women from afar; the bedroom and the mosque, never "as Eugène Fromentin notes in his book" A Summer in the Sahara " .

In her painting "Moorish woman leaving the bath", 1854, Chassériau uses an iconography borrowed from mythology and the classical tradition. The figure of harem, new Venus, can not indeed be portrayed in a faithful way, because it remains invisible to all. Thus Édouard Debat-Ponsan in "The Massage: scene of Hammam" (1883), renews a classic and imaginary iconography in staging it against a backdrop of Islamic mosaic.

The human figure will eventually fade in the dazzling oriental light. From Jean-Léon Gérôme ("The Merchant of Colors" (The Pillar of Colors, circa 1890-1891) to Eugène Fromentin ("The Land of Thirst", circa 1869, Paris, Musée d'Orsay) and Hippolyte Lazerges (" Caravan near Biskra, Algeria ", 1892, Nantes, Museum of Arts) begins a transition from the figure to the landscape, by the presentation of genre scenes with a growing attention to light and structure ever more refined landscapes.

The progressive geometrization of the landscape ends up concentrating on the composition and rhythm of the colors: Jules-Alexis Muenier rubs shoulders Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Albert Marquet and Camoin. The geometry and whiteness of the city of Algiers thus inspires Muenier "The Port of Algiers", (1888, Paris, Musée d'Orsay).

Wassily Kandinsky or Paul Klee to cross the threshold of abstraction, linked to the experience of pure color and dazzle as such "Arab City" of Kandinsky, (1905, Paris, MNAM, Center Georges Pompidou) or "Oriental" (1909, Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau) gradually moving into pure color.

Orientalism then gives way to a radical experiment, at the origin of modern art. pure painting.

THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GYMNASTE

KATELYN OHASHI

INFLAMES THE NETWORKS

In ninety seconds Kately Ohashi stunned the crowd, the coaches, her team-mates, the judges ... and finally the networks.

The judges did not hesitate one second: 10/10, absolutely perfect performance.

"It's going to be hard to do better," said LA Times coach Valorie Kondos Field, the UCLA team coach. The university account has tweeted:

"A 10 is not enough for Katelyn Ohashi's floor exercise. "

With a background of pop music, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson and Earth Wind & Fire, the 21-year-old prodigy defies gravity on the floor, with a smile to her ears and energetic moves.

Katelyn Ohashi dances, twirls, flies away, falls back into the gap, bounces with joy.

Katelyn Ohashi, a native of Seattle, is not a newcomer.

She spent four years on the national junior team and in 2013, at the age of 16, she had participated in the American Cup, which brings together the best gymnasts in the world. She defeated Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic champion in Rio, in 2016.

Yet she comes back from a distance. If at age 16 she was already a sensation by postponing many awards and was destined for an Olympic career, a series of shoulder injuries will be the reason for her career. For a time, at least.

She had made the decision to give up her Olympic dreams, "It's thanks to my coach and UCLA that I've found the joy of doing gymnastics and being just me.

Before, I suffered many criticisms and pressures on my weight.

So much so that I no longer had the taste for sport, "she said last August.

Now she's back on her feet with talent to impress more than one. "Doing gymnastics is what I prefer. What you see is what I feel, "says Katelyn Ohashi.

The girl revolutionized gymnastics!

CHASSES CROISES

THEATER ON POSTER

Amateurs means above all who loves who is passionate!

One thing is certain, the band that burns the boards of this small town around Lyon, precisely in Saint Andrée de Corcy, has a crazy talent!

No wonder it's sold out!

Chasses Croises it is their last piece that it gives on Saint-Andrée de Corcy on two dates on November 10, 2018 with 20:00 and on November 11, 2018 with 15:00.

I will not tell you the plot before but make you want to come see it!

Everything starts like this!

In the lobby of a building, between the mailboxes and the digicode, strange characters cross each other without always understanding each other ...

On the sidewalk of a street are strange stories ..............

If you are in the Lyon region on these dates, do not miss out on disappointment ............

Surely you will have a good time with the troupe DOMINO THEATER ...

NEW SUSPENSE AROUND BANKSY AT ACTURIAL?

Suspense at Artcurial! The Parisian auction house is auctioning several works by Banksy, the famous street-artist whose one of the paintings had partially self-destroyed to the surprise, during a similar sale at Sotheby's in London on October 5 latest.

A new blow of brilliance?

In addition to the price of the works, which is likely to fly, a possible new coup de brilliance of the artist, whose face and identity have never been unveiled, will be scrutinized very closely.

A specific security system has been put in place, but so far, no one expects to witness a second destruction of work and for good reason.

"Banksy is not someone who does the same thing twice," says Arnaud Oliveux, expert in charge of the auction.

And for good reason : the frames are not a problem this time:

"These are thin frames, which were not part of these pieces, which were in a rolled tube , " he says. Something other than the thick golden wooden frame of "Girl With Balloon" where the infernal machine was hidden which had allowed its destruction.

Among many lots, three serigraphs and a resin rat must be auctioned. The canvas that has partially self-destruct in London had just been sold for 1.042 million pounds, or 1.185 million euros. This acrylic and aerosol painting reproduction of one of Banksy's most famous works showed a little girl letting go of a red heart-shaped balloon.

In all cases, there were inevitably Banksy's accomplices in the room to trigger the battery allowing the self-destruction of "Girl With Balloon".

If not Banksy himself, had anyone speculated.

The mysterious artist from Bristol had claimed a foothold in the art market, wanting to denounce its " commodification".

This did not stop the work from taking on more value, now estimated at more than two million euros.

On Instagram, a message signed Banksy had put the points on the i: "think it was not cut. Si. Some people think the auction house knew. No. "

BANSKY'S SELF-RETARDING WORK

OR

LOVE IS IN THE TRASH

The painting is a reproduction of one of Banksy's most famous images, "Girl with Balloon", showing a little girl letting go of a red heart-shaped balloon.

It was partially cut into thin strips by a grinder hidden in a thick golden frame, only moments after being sold.

The moment was immortalized by the photographers present, while two employees of the house approached to depend on the half-jagged work.

And the self-destruct work of Banksy has been sold to a collector!

The Sotheby's auction house confirmed Thursday the sale of the canvas "Girl with Balloon" by the British artist Banksy. The buyer of the canvas "has confirmed its decision to acquire the new work that was created that night," said Sotheby's in a statement, stating that the price to which it had been awarded, 1.042 million pounds ( 1.185 million euros) was maintained.

This "European collector" explained in the press release "first shocked". "But gradually I realized that I was going to own my piece of art history ," she added.

"Banksy did not destroy a work at the auction, he created one," said an auction house manager, Alex Branczik. He said it was renamed "Love is in the Bin" after this event.

You will see this new work on display at the Sotheby's premises in London on October 13th and 14th.

ADJUGEE ! VENDUE !

L’OEUVRE  AUTODETRUITE ENSUITE PAR

BANKSY LUI-MEME ?

Vendredi soir, 5 octobre 2018, tout de suite après avoir été adjugée au prix faramineux de 1,185 millions d’euros, la reproduction en acrylique et aérosol de la « petite fille au ballon » de Bansky, s’est autodétruite sous les regards stupéfaits et amusés à la fois du public présent chez Sotheby’s.

L’instant a été immortalisé par les photographes présents, tandis que deux employés de la maison approchaient pour dépendre l’œuvre à demi déchiquetée.

La scène s’est déroulée, en l’absence de l’artiste espiègle, lequel avait néanmoins dû mandater un proche chargé d’actionner la broyeuse à papier cachée sous le cadre.

Depuis, on ne parle plus que de cet événement des deux cotés de la Manche et jusqu’en Amérique.

De son coté, l’artiste s’est contenté de poster la vidéo de l’événement. La publication était accompagnée d’un message laconique : «  le besoin de détruire est aussi un besoin créatif ». La phrase est attribuée généralement à Picasso. En fait, il s’agit d’une citation du théoricien de l’anarchisme Bakounine….

« Cela fait quinze ans que Banksy mène une critique au vitriol du marché de l’art » résume un spécialiste du Street Art, Nicolas Langino Lasserre (sur France Inter). « La plupart de ses performances sont une satire du marché de l’Art dont il dénonce la marchandisation » a-t-il ajouté, en concluant que « l’autodestruction de l’œuvre  - la petite fille au ballon –n’est pas un coup de pub mais un coup de génie ».

Mais qui est donc Banksy ? Tout le monde cherche à savoir, car l’artiste se cache ! Il faudra donc percer le mystère !

Ce que l’on sait à minima, c’est que Banksy  est né dans la ville de Bristol (Angleterre). Ses graffitis de rue étant souvent apparus au moment même où le groupe Massive Attack se produisait, certains ont pensé que le chanteur du groupe et Banksy sont une même et seule personne. Selon le Daily Mail adepte de cette hypothèse, Banksy serait donc Robert de Naja, dissimilé sous sa capuche ?

Les preuves ne sont cependant pas définitivement établies.

Car d’autres chercheurs londoniens pensent que Banksy pourrait être Robin Gunningham, un autre artiste de rue, auteur de fresques qui mêlent satires et poésies, né lui aussi à Bristol.

En l’absence de certitudes sur les origines et le nom exact de Banksy , il faut reconnaitre que ce dernier coup (un de plus) a fait l’effet d’une petite révolution, confirmant que ce faiseur inconnu d’images qui sait faire le buzz autour de lui, est un manipulateur des ventes, des musées, des collectionneurs et plus largement de la société.

En tout état de cause, ce dernier coup de maître a bien embarrassé Sotheby’s ! Il est la preuve en effet d’un changement complet d’échelle, de mentalité et de rapport à une œuvre d’art et à sa notion de valeur.

De quoi donner des frissons à l’ancienne génération de collectionneurs, « les vrais », ceux qui ont cru à leur flair pour acheter avec leurs yeux.

Dès dimanche, depuis son siège de New York (la maison américaine est cotée en bourse) Sotheby’s indiquait qu’elle n’était pas au courant et qu’en aucun cas elle ne pouvait être considérée comme étant impliquée dans la formidable opération de marketing qui venait de se dérouler sous les yeux des amateurs de Street Art.

Mais, au demeurant, une toile détériorée juste après avoir fait un record, c’est du jamais vu.

Sotheby’s se défend donc ; mais des spécialistes s’interrogent :

Comme si Sotheby’s ne savait pas ?

Les habitués qui connaissent bien les ficelles des ventes aux enchères rappellent que  la manière dont a été prise la vidéo sur place et dans l’instant , suppose qu’il fallait avoir une place assise pour faire de telles images ; ils rappellent que pour obtenir une place assise il faut s’enregistrer à l’avance auprès de la maison et obtenir un panel , c'est-à-dire un numéro permettant d’enchérir. Sotheby’s sait donc parfaitement qui était à la place de celui qui a si bien filmé la scène d’autodestruction de l’œuvre « La Petite Fille au ballon ».

D’autres points suscitent également des interrogations ? Quelle est l’origine du vendeur, lequel a déclaré qu’il aurait acheté l’œuvre en 2006, directement auprès de l’artiste.

A cette époque et alors que les cotes de Banksy atteignait en moyenne 100 000 € seulement, cet acheteur pouvait il imaginer que l’œuvre dépasserait les 1 million d’euros en 2018.

Autre question ? Pourquoi le rapport en bonne et due forme qui vérifie l’état de l’œuvre et qui nécessite que celle-ci soit désencadrée et étudiée sous tous ses angles pour éviter que des faux soient mis en circulation, n‘a pas révélé la présence d’un système de destruction et surtout pas été publié ?

Autre argument, plus inquiétant : Sotheby’s pourrait elle, (si elle ne savait rien) laisser entrer n’importe quoi dans ses locaux, y compris … des explosifs.

« Tout cela est très inquiétant », c’est la remarque faite par plus d’un !

A ce stade, il faut se souvenir  de l’exposition illégale de Banksy faite en 2004, sur les murs du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Londres. Il s’agissait d’une création présentant un rat encadré, surmontée de la mention, « Our time Will come » (notre heure viendra). Cette exposition de 2006 pourrait elle avoir été prémonitoire ?

Les derniers coups de l’artiste laissent en effet présager de sa part qu’après avoir obtenu une reconnaissance commerciale il pourrait enfin  obtenir une reconnaissance artistique réelle ?

Pas sûr que les évènements de vendredi dernier le confortent dans cette démarche, le prix de « La petite fille au ballon rouge », bien qu’à moitié déchiquetée, ayant depuis doublée de valeur ! Et que penser de cette issue ? on se perd en conjecture !

UNE TRAGEDIE POUR LA CULTURE

UN INCENDIE RAVAGE LE MUSEE

DE RIO DE JANEIRO AU BRESIL

C'est un immense incendie qui ravage le Musée national de Rio de Janeiro.Le directeur adjoint du Musée a fait part de son "immense colère".

D’immenses flammes ont détruit ce joyau culturel pendant des heures. Le sinistre, d’origine encore inconnue, a débuté vers 19h30 heure locale alors que le musée était fermé au public, ont indiqué les médias brésiliens.

« Jusqu’à présent, il n’y a pas de rapports faisant état de victimes. Il (le feu) s’est propagé très rapidement. Il y a beaucoup de matières inflammables » dans le musée, a indiqué un porte-parole des pompiers de Rio de Janeiro.

Le Musée National de Rio de Janeiro est l’un des plus anciens musées du Brésil, créé par le roi Jean VI et ouvert en 1818. Il compte parmi les musées les plus prestigieux du Brésil. Cette institution possédent plus de 20 millions de pièces de valeur. Le site Internet du Musée national détaille les œuvres présentes dans le bâtiment :

une collection égyptienne, une autre d’art et d’artefacts gréco-romains, bâtiment : une collection égyptienne, une autre d’art et d’artefacts gréco-romains, des collections de paléontologie comprenant un squelette d’un dinosaure trouvé dans la région de Minas Gerais, ainsi que le plus ancien fossile humain découvert au Brésil, connu sous le nom de « Luzia ».

« Aujourd’hui est un jour tragique pour le Brésil. Deux cents ans de travail, de recherche et de connaissance ont été perdus », a déclaré le président Michel Temer dans un communiqué de presse.

« Ce sont 200 ans d’histoire qui ont disparu » a déploré le directeur adjoint du musée, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte . Il a accusé les autorités brésiliennes de « manque d’attention » soulignant qu’il n’y a jamais eu de « soutien efficace et urgent » pour une adaptation du palais, ancienne résidence officielle de la famille royale et impériale. Liée à l’Université fédérale de Rio de Janeiro, l’institution a subi des coupes budgétaires.

La tristesse s’est mêlée à la colère des chercheurs, des professeurs et des étudiants. Le sénateur Lindbergh Farias a dénoncé le manque de moyens pour soutenir le musée.

SHIRTS OF THE FANS THAT HAPPEN

FICTIONAL COUPLES

The "shipping " in its current form was born in the fandom of X-Files, one of the first to have seized the Web in the 1990s. The term "shipper" originates from fans in line of this TV series.It would be fans who wanted to see Scully and Mulder develop a romantic relationship

"Shippers", a term from the English word "relationship", refers to people supporting a couple, whether or not the couple exists in the original work. For years, they have been invading the Web and fans' fandoms (their communities) with their stories, their drawings to defend the couple they prefer. There is even a budding love story between Finn and Poe, two new characters from the latest Star Wars!

Potter, he has many stories:

This fantasy is shared with thousands of people who have read his text ... On the Archive of Our Own, one of the main hosts of fanfics, at least 13,000 stories are woven between these two characters.

With digital and social networks ways to share love stories for some end with pornographic scenes

But who are these fans? Mainly women and people of a certain age! who

want to insist on "counter-readings" that often offer an alternative to stereotyped scenarios, and that homosexual couples come to life in these fictions.

And irony of the story: The French netizens thus diverted the shipping recently for the invention of "Vallande" , a story between Manuel Valls and François Hollande with drawings and photo montages.

And even real people are interested in this movement: Thus, two members of One Direction group, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, are among the most "shipped" duets, as are the youtubeurs Dan Howell and Phil Lester !!!! And who says that creators will not follow their shippers ...

THE MOLIERES

The second big winner of this evening went to Jean-Pierre Daguerre who got two Molières, that of the best play of the private theater and that of the French author living with the moving piece Adieu Monsieur Haffman. Two actors in her play, Julie Cavanna and Franck Desmedt, won an award for their performance.

This ceremony, presented this year by actress Zabou Breitman, gave Jean-Pierre Darroussin the actor's Molière in a private theater show for a reprise of Yasmina Reza's hit play Art. Director Joël Pommerat to receive no less than three Molières, including the best director of a private show (Cinderella).

You will not have my hatred, poignant story of the journalist Antoine Leiris after the death of his wife at the Bataclan in November 2015, won the prize of Alone on stage.

Blanche Gardin's pickling humor, coming to put the Molière back in her own category, ended up blowing a bit of madness in this all-too-wise ceremony.

The complete list of the 30th Molières ceremony:

Molière of the public theater: "A room in India", by Ariane Mnouchkine

Molière Private Theater: "Farewell Mr. Haffman", Jean-Philippe Daguerre

Female Revelation: Julie Cavanna, in "Farewell Mr. Haffman"

Male Revelation: Rod Paradot in "The Son"

Molière de la comédie: "The big diamond of Prince Ludwig", directed by Gwen Aduh

Molière of the actress of a public theater show: Marina Hands in "Actress"

Molière of the comedian of a public theater show: Jacques Gamblin in "1 hour 23'14" and 7 hundredths "

Molière of the actress of a private show: Laure Calamy in "The game of love and chance"

Molière of the comedian of a private show: Jean-Pierre Darroussin in "Art"

Molière of the living French author: Jean-Philippe Daguerre, for "Adieu Monsieur Haffman"

Molière of the director of a public theater show: Ariane Mnouchkine, for "A room in India"

Molière of the director of a private theater show: Joël Pommerat for "Cinderella"

Molière of visual creation: "Cinderella" by Joël Pommerat

Molière of the musical show: "Histoire du soldat" directed by Stéphan Druet

Molière of the young audience: "Little Red Riding Hood", by Joël Pommerat

Molière of humor: Blanche Gardin in "I speak alone"

Molière "Alone on stage": "You will not have my hate", directed by Benjamin Guillard

The founder of the Théâtre du Soleil was crowned Monday in her absence as best director at the 30th edition of Molières.

TRUMP ACCUSES CIA OF INFILTRATION

OF HIS COUNTRY TEAM

A clear-cut witness of American society, he paints a vitriolic portrait of America. His celebrity bothered him: "I was propelled like a human carcass into the celebrity machine to make it a hamburger of celebrities." To such an extent that he uses two literary doubles, Nathan Zuckerman and Peter Tarnopol for his harsh criticism of America, also pretending to be staged in the genre of autofiction. He lives in Connecticut, where he can work in peace.

These books allow him to demystify the American dream up to create the scandal with Portnoy and his complex in 1970 where he writes in the form of a monologue the life of a young Jewish lawyer from Newark, on the couch of his shrink, him confident his teenage urges

He receives for American Pastoral the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Throughout his life, and since his early successes in the 1960s, Philip Roth has continued to explore many themes including the fanaticism of Americans for their country and for political commitments, egotism, cynicism, the sexuality sinking in the lust and the excesses of the body of the Man, but also the life in the Jewish families.

In Weequahic, he explained, he had experienced "Jewish life," with the assurance that it can bring. There he did not feel anti-Semitism. "Basically," said Roth, "it was as if we lived in a miniature Europe, a Europe that was boiling hot, without the French and the Spaniards. "

Philip Roth has received all the best American honors: two National Book Awards, as many National Book Critics Circle awards, three times the Faulkner Award.

Among his best known works include The Conspiracy against America , Operation Shylock , American Pastoral or La Tache . In 2001, Philip Roth received the Franz Kafka Award for all of his work. He is also Commander of the Legion of Honor in France in 2013 and has been rewarded all over the world.

"Writing is a huge frustration, it's a daily frustration, not to mention the humiliation," he told reporters. Society magazine. He suddenly stopped taking his pen after Nemesis.

Here is the secret for your couple to last.
The solution is I love you I deceive you.
After several investigations, couples who last are those who have extramarital affairs.

And yes from the United States comes a book The Stage of Affairs which has been a hit on this subject, it comes out Thursday in France.

The author of this book Esther Perel psychotherapist who deals with this subject with a funny open mind moving forward with our society.
But being unfaithful can save your marriage or ruin it.

You have to be smart choose the infidelity punctually and especially do not sleep twice or more with the same person because after you risk either you or the other to attach.

No be unfaithful one shot.
After, you will feel guilty and so be more pleasant with your partner and love him again.

Because in fact you have everything at home, that's why you did it by drive.

In France there are 50 percent unfaithful men and 33 percent women.

So to succeed his marriage must try adultery, you tell me!

FABULOUS CITE MAYA DISCOVERY

UNDER JUNGLE IN GUATEMALA

A consortium of scientists has unearthed a Mayan "megalopolis" in the heart of Guatemala.

This is a "major breakthrough" on Maya that has just been completed by an international consortium of about thirty researchers, reported by National Geographic magazine.

The latter announced that he had discovered houses, fortifications and palaces hidden for centuries in the Guatemalan jungle:

a Mayan city of more than 2,000 km² in the jungle of the Petén region in northern Guatemala.

Nearly 60,000 structures (houses, fortifications, roads, palaces) have been detected thanks to a technology known as LiDAR for "Light detection and ranging".

Archaeologists and researchers have managed to identify the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, pavements and even pyramids, covered for centuries by the jungle of northern Guatemala.

The technology used is avant-garde: no need to cut trees. It maps the landscape and water movements thanks to drones able to penetrate foliage and equipped with thermal sensors. Then the researchers scan the area by removing "numerically" the vegetation.

This sprawling pre-Columbian civilization has been restored in three dimensions.

Experts estimate that it is no longer 2 to 5 million people who lived in the plains during the period of the classical Mayan civilization (200 to 900 AD) but rather 15 to 20 million.

" This research is the most important culmination of Maya archeology in a century," said Thomas Garrison, archeologist at the head of the project.

Added to this is the discovery of a Maya pyramid near the center of the city and a structure described as "natural looking" which could be the still intact tomb of a Mayan king.

In the city, has been identified.

It was hitherto hidden and considered a natural hill.

Central America would be home to a more advanced civilization than was thought with a functioning comparable to the sophisticated cultures of ancient Greece or China.

In addition to hundreds of previously unknown structures, LiDAR images highlight highways linking urban centers and gravel pits. Complex irrigation systems and terraces supported intensive agriculture that could feed men

The Maya used neither the wheel nor the beasts of burden, and yet it is a "civilization that has literally lifted mountains," marvels Marcello Canuto, an archaeologist at Tulane University, who took part in the project. .

"We have this Western perception that a complex civilization can not develop in the tropics, whereas

"Central America, in the same way as Angkor Wat in Cambodia, was a major development site for complex and innovative civilizations. "

Scientists have to go to the site for more in-depth digs.

The final results of the survey should be made public in a documentary titled "The Mysteries of the Mayan Serpent Dynasty" released in the coming weeks on National Geographic.

PORNOGRAPHY OR ARTWORK WHEN

FACEBOOK CENSURE THE TABLE

"THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD" COURBET

THE MONOLOGUES OF VAGIN WITH

MARLENE SCHIAPPA AND TWO OTHER EX-MINISTERS

The State Secretary for Equality and two other ministers will resume the Vagina Monologues. No it's not a joke !!!

Roselyne Bachelot, former Minister of Health, and Myriam El Khomri, former Minister of Labor, will be on stage.

The trio will be on stage at the Bobino Theater the day after Women's Rights Day, ie March 8th and March 12th, on March 11th at the Antoine Theater.

The proceeds will be donated to an association.

Remember that this piece on the Vagina went around the world.

Several famous actresses in France have played it.

This piece created in 1986 by Eve Ensler was played on Broadway where she was a huge success.

The playwright asked several women to talk to them about their vaginas by giving them a small name like the kitty, the golden triangle and the utility of the latter ...

This piece is a funny, we imagine very quickly the kind of replica of our funny ladies.

A must see !!!!

CEREMONY FOR JOHNNY HALLYDAY

«But do not mourn / It's me who tell you / It darkens the white of the eye / And it's ugly / The stories of coffins / It's sad and not pretty / Take back your colors / The colors of life " Jean Reno paid tribute to his friend by borrowing the words of Jacques Prévert. In this case, the Song of the snails that go to the funeral. A text that the actor, the small godfather, selected with Jade and Joy, the adoptive girls of Johnny Hallyday.

The blessing given in honor of very believer singer will remain one of the milestones.

Nono (guitar), Laurent Vernerey (bass), Christophe Deschamps (drums), Greg Zlap (harmonica), Robin Le Mesurier (guitar), Philippe Almosnino (guitar) and Alain Lanty (keyboards) settled on the stage set at the exit of the church of the Madeleine.

These musicians played with Johnny. Some of them were still on stage with him last July during the Vieilles Canailles tour.

A repertoire known to all: The music I love, The youth idol, Black is black, The penitentiary, Gabrielle, My mouth, Something Tennessee, Light the fire, Requiem for a madman.

"I will never forget what you did for me, each time with that kindly and fraternal smile. I loved you as a big brother. I think of your audience, David, Laura, Nathalie, Sylvie and your little children. Laeticia, so dignified, and Jade and Joy, who can be proud of their dad. Everything suggested that you are immortal. I can not imagine there will be no more Johnny, " said Patrick Bruel, very moved, who had sung duets with Johnny.

This Saturday, France said goodbye to Johnny Hallyday. The rocker, swept away by cancer at the beginning of the week, was treated to a big day of celebration.

FULL LIFTING

OF THE MONTPARNASSE TOWER IN PARIS

After an international architectural competition launched in June 2016, agencies Chartier-Dalix, Franklin Azzi and Hardel and Le Bihan were selected to realize this vast "facelift" of the building, said Tuesday the union of co-owners of Real Estate Tour Maine Montparnasse (EITMM). Tuesday 19 September 2017 evening the French group Nouvelle AOM (New Agency for the Maine-Montparnasse operation) was therefore unanimously chosen , a collective of five architects from three different firms for this metamorphosis of the Tower.

It is true that this building of 58 floors, austere and dark, disfigured for many Paris Haussmann. Moreover a few decades later we discover that it is full of asbestos. Carcinogenic fiber has been removed in 90% of the building since 2006; it still remains in the 10%.

Only the silhouette of the tower, almond-shaped with its triangular notch at the ends will remain . Otherwise for the rest, the skyscraper will have a different look.

From dark and opaque, it will become bright and transparent. The tower will be widened by 2 meters at its base and on the first 13 floors, while 4 patios "will reveal its roots" to allow the light to enter the basement. It will reach 227 meters or 18 meters higher. The 18 meters of an additional floor will house a "greenhouse" and 850 square meters of photovoltaic panels. These will provide "half of the artificial lighting needs" of the tower, said the engineer Raphaël Ménard, Elioth society.

It is that environmental excellence has been one of the defining criteria of the call for tenders.

Many green spaces including urban agriculture will make the ecological tower. Ten times less energy to consume since 70% of the ventilation will come from the use of winds.

In the first third, where most of the services (cafes, restaurants) will be located, an open-air 'hanging garden' will give the building a 'greener' appearance, with green balconies on each floor.

Eventually, the capacity of the building will be doubled with more than 12,000 people.

The project provides multiple uses, with a hotel on 4 floors and a nursery, and a range of services to make this site a hot spot of Parisian life 24 hours a day . "We are going to create a tower that will live 24 hours a day, with a hotel and services that can also be offered to Parisians, so that they are proud of the tower and can take ownership of it with new uses," he explained. the press Gilles Vuillemard, President of the EITMM.

It is a colossal site of more than 300 million euros that the forty co-owners of the building will finance. The work requiring the displacement of 6000 people should be completed "in time for the Olympic Games in 2024," Gilles Vuillemard told the press

The general public can discover Wednesday the seven projects that were competing in an exhibition, open access from September 20 to October 22 at the Pavillon de l'arsenal.

ORSAY MUSEUM

SUBLIME EXHIBITION BEYOND THE STARS

UNE « DANSEUSE ASSISE »

DU PLASTICIEN JEFF KOONS

AU COEUR DE MANHATTAN .

L'artiste, dont les œuvres sont régulièrement controversées, est notamment connu pour ses sculptures en acier inoxydable poli à l'extrême, comme Balloon Dog (chien-ballon).

Sur la mythique place du Rockefeller Center à New-York, en plein Manhattan, on peut actuellement admirer depuis vendredi 12 mai 2017, une immense poupée gonflable aux faux-airs de princesse Disney : "Seated Ballerina" ("Danseuse assise"), dernière création du plasticien pop Jeff Koons . La danseuse restera un mois au Rockefeller Center, où Jeff Koons avait déjà installé, en 2000 et 2014, des œuvres géantes faites de fleurs.

Une installation éphémère :

Jeff Koons : cette « danseuse assise » s'inspire d'une petite figurine de porcelaine russe de la fin du XIXe siècle. Réalisée avec un vrai ballon pour imiter une statue métallique, elle trône en hommage au « Mois international des enfants disparus ». Avec ses 14 mètres de haut, elle se dresse au cœur de la ville .C'est un symbole d'espoir : « Je pense que quand les gens verront la danseuse assise, ils auront le sentiment d'un potentiel, un sentiment d'avenir et d'optimisme et ils pourront ressentir quelque chose pour leur propre vie ou celles de leurs enfants. Il faut se rappeler qu'il y a quelques 465 000 enfants disparus rien qu'aux États-Unis chaque année, et que certains d'entre eux ne reviendront jamais », a expliqué l'artiste.

Selon l'artiste, chacun doit pouvoir s'identifier à cette danseuse en tutu de couleur bleu ciel, occupée à enfiler un chausson. Comme elle, «nous nous gonflons, nous sommes gonflables, et ça, c'est une situation optimiste, nous sommes pleins d'une espèce d'énergie de vie».

ETONNANTE EXHUMATION DE DALI

APRES UNE DEMANDE DE PATERNITE

EXIGEE PAR LA JUSTISCE ESPAGNOLE

La justice espagnole a annoncé exiger, presque 30 ans après sa mort, l'exhumation des restes du peintre Salvador Dali en vue d'un prélèvement d'ADN dans les «restes osseux ou dents». Elle est nécessaire ,«car il n'existe pas d'autres restes biologiques ni personnels pour effectuer une comparaison», lit-on aussi dans le communiqué.

«Le Tribunal de Première instance n° 11 de Madrid a ordonné l'exhumation du cadavre du peintre Salvador Dali, afin d'obtenir des échantillons de ses restes et déterminer s'il est le père biologique d'une femme de Gérone», a annoncé le service de communication du Tribunal supérieur de justice de Madrid.

Une voyante de 61 ans assure être sa fille. La plaignante, une cartomancienne qui serait, si elle avait gain de cause, sa seule fille, a également vu le jour dans la ville catalane.

Cette habitante de la ville de Gérone (Catalogne), Pilar Abel, tente depuis des années de faire valoir devant la justice que l'artiste était son père biologique.

Histoire d'argent et d'héritage!? Sans aucun doute; Besoin de reconnaissance aussi!?

Les parties ont 20 jours ouvrables pour contester la décision . La Fondation Salvador Dali, gérant et protégeant le patrimoine laissé par le peintre, a aussitôt annoncé un recours contre cette procédure civile.

Salvador Dali est un grand nom du surréalisme, il est mort à 84 ans le 24 janvier 1989 dans un hôpital de Figueras,et a mené une vie intense et trépidante en tout en inventant ses créations géniales et ses extravagances.

Richissime et désespéré, il a vécu ses sept dernières années reclus dans son château de Pubol, près de Gérone.

Il est enterré au sein du théâtre-musée de Figueras qu'il avait lui-même imaginé et qui a reçu, en 2016, plus de 1,1 million de visiteurs.

Dali a été enterré en 1989 à Figueras où il est né en 1904.

Ses dernières volontés n'ont même pas été respectées lui qui avait pourtant demandé à reposer à Pubol auprès de sa muse, Gala, qui avait partagé une grande partie de sa vie.

Née en 1956 dans une clinique de Figueras, Pilar Abel soutient que Dali et sa mère ont entretenu une liaison clandestine, quand cette dernière travaillait dans la petite localité côtière de Portlligat où le peintre séjournait souvent.

Dans un témoignage confus diffusé en mars 2015 à la télévision catalane TV3, elle assurait que quand elle avait huit ans, sa grand-mère lui avait confié: «Je sais que tu n'es pas la fille de mon fils, je sais que ton père est un grand peintre». «Elle m'avait dit le nom : Dali», affirmait-elle.

Sa mère, «amoureuse de Dali», lui aurait confirmé cette histoire avant d'être atteinte de démence sénile.Son avocat, Enrique Blánquez, a assuré que l'histoire était «connue dans le village». «Il y a des témoins, s'il n'y avait une base de preuves minimale, cette décision n'aurait pas été prise», a-t-il plaidé.

Un témoin travaillait pour Dali et le peintre payait, selon lui, pour enquêter sur les allées et venues de la mère de Pilar Abel. Il aurait confirmé la version de la voyante !

Une demande en paternité qui aurait peut-être amusé Dali le farceur, qui avait vendu un faux poil de sa moustache 10 000 dollars à Yoko Ono, selon l'actrice et ancienne chanteuse française Amanda Lear !!!

A SUIVRE...

STAN LEE

L'HISTOIRE DE SUPER-HEROS SONT

DES HISTOIRES POUR LES GRANDS

Après les contes pour enfants, les adolescents comme les adultes se tourneraient vers les superhéros. Un prolongement de notre enfance ?

Le célèbre auteur de « comic books » et père de nombreux super-héros américains revient dans les librairies cette fois-ci.avec Zodiac Legacy, son premier roman, coécrit avec Stuart Moore et Andie Tong .

Ce roman publié en France chez Pika suit les aventures super-héroïques d’un jeune homme qui découvre par accident l’existence de pouvoirs surnaturels liés aux signes du zodiaque chinois.Le zodiaque chinois. comme base du roman loin de l'univers américain....

Stan Lee reviendrait-il à ses origine avec en plus le même nom que le personnage du roman ?

Rien de moins sûr.

Allez-vite le découvrir, il est fait pour vous !

Ce roman est foisonnant de personnages, d'aventures haletantes en Asie mystérieuse . Et de plus il peut se lire comme un comic avec ses belles illustrations qui le parcourent :

car notre auteur du haut de ses 93 ans n'a ps oublié de travailler en binôme avec son dessinateur mais cette fois de manière différente. D'abord l'histoire puis ensuite le dessin.

Tu comprends, cher lecteur, l'approche est quelque peu différente puisque le romancier n'est plus obligé de se conformer strictement aux cases de la BD. Son imagination s'y déploie à merveille dans cet Orient de mystère.et du jeune Steven Lee obligé subitement de s'y confronter.

Ton quotidien va s'en trouver plus imaginatif que le réel !

Et Stan Lee avec son entreprise Purveyors of Wonders sort l'adaptation de son Docteur Strange sur les écrans.

Gageons que l'imagination de ce conteur prolifique fourmille encore d'idées géantes et de personnages superhéroiques pour continuer son entreprise de fournisseurs d’émerveillement ! En comics comme en adaptations de film !

Allez-vite le découvrir, il est fait pour vous !

Ce roman est foisonnant de personnages, d'aventures haletantes en Asie mystérieuse .