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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
A legendary plane from
World War II was found
a year ago in Bosnia-
Herzegovina by volunteers
from the Franco-British
association which manages
the Merville battery site in
Calvados. The grounded
plane, a Douglas C47, was
better known in its day by its
nickname ‘The Snafu
Special’. The volunteers lost
no time in returning it to
France where it could enjoy
a peaceful retirement in
Normandy, near the landing
beaches it would have taken
part in.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
A group of doctors at
Caen’s Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire
(CHU) have been awarded
for their work in
resuscitation at the 6th
Victoires de la Médecine.
The award recompenses
a grand joint effort on the
part of the casualty ward and
other hospital staff. Over the
last few months, when a
serious heart attack or stroke
case came up, each person
concerned tried the welltested
method of
resuscitation. First, the
emergency ambulance people
(SAMU) would rush to the
patient.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
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Claude Monet is quoted as saying: “There are only two
things I know how to do, paint and garden.” Monet, who
bought his Giverny farmhouse in 1883, painted there until his
death in 1926. Growing flowers and the waterlilies of his
huge late canvases became a parallel, lifetime occupation. His
fame attracted young American artists, keen to learn outdoor
painting techniques, unknown in America at the time.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
The word geisha conjures up a
number of images and ideas:
costume, elaborate makeup and
hairstyle, formality, ritual, eroticism and
eastern mystique.
Photographer Sabine
Pigalle’s exhibition,
‘Geishas’, in the small
Galérie Brasilia
in the Marais
has all these
elements, plus a
witty vision of
conventional beauty
and the beauty industry.
Influenced by
painting and the nude
portrait, the walls are
hung with oversize
photographs of pairs,
and in one case a trio,
of southeast Asian
women naked from the
waist up apart from
makeup, jewellery and
body paint. The images
are repeated on the horizontal plane
where lifesize photographs are
integrated into three table tops with
incorporated backlighting. The table
design is by Leiko Oshima.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Declan Donnellan brings his company, Cheek by Jowl, to
Les Gémeaux theatre at Sceaux, in the southern suburbs
of Paris, with a production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus
and Cressida’.
Currently in residence in the Barbican theatre in London,
Donnellan and his company make regular visits to Sceaux in
the early spring. Cheek by Jowl has a collective approach,
with a relaxed relationship between director, actors and
audience. The physicality of the actor in space is enhanced by
the bare sets, designed by Donnellan’s close collaborator,
Nick Ormerod. The overall style is sparse, clear and crisp.
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