Exhibition, album, comic. everything the editorial staff recommends to see and read this week.
Janelle Monet, Jazz Age
Over the past decade, jazz seems to have been superseded by rap and its descendants, Chicago’s South Side neighborhood exercises, East Coast boom-bap, or emo rap. At the same time, shaking in all these musical currents, the singer, rapper and African-American musician Janelle Monae, eight times nominated for the Grammy Awards, decided to restore jazz to its noble letters by paying tribute to it through a concept album. The new project of the California star conscious hip hop (currently elevating 1980s and 1990s rap) is an album of infectious energy, interspersed with saxophones, trumpets, guitars and bass overlaid with jazzy rhythms. Over fourteen titles Age of pleasure, the instruments intertwine with the deep timbre of his voice and weave melodic paths into the art of delightful counterpoint. The chanted rhymes and effortless tempo invite you to a sensual dance. Janelle Monae looks at all styles (from swing to bebop), as if to say that hip-hop-infused black jazz is rearing its head. Also, actress Janelle Monae was noted for her performance in such films as Moonlight And Hidden figures (Oscar Nominees) and shows movie clips.
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Age of pleasure, Warner. Concert on July 12 at La Seine musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt (Au de Seine).
Art haven
Wall mural from tripartite The city that didn’t exista utopia imagined by Grigory Chatonsky, presented at the 2023 edition of Summer in Le Havre. Summer in Le Havre
So beloved of Marguerite Duras, who loved strolling along the Seine and gazing at the Tankerville Bridge, Le Havre is a cultural hotspot. Claude Monet invented Impressionism there, Auguste Perre defined modern architecture there, the city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and two million visitors attended the city’s 500th anniversary celebrations in 2017.
Summer in Le Havre, initiated by Jean Blaise, succeeded this year by Gael Charbau, is part of this ambition: a journey of art in the city. Its new artistic director intends to go further in the next four seasons of the event. “I wanted the art to travel through the city and pass through it like excitement. That it crosses the border between private and public spaces, that it extends into new neighborhoods, that it gently flows into the summer season. On the menu for the 2023 edition. Marussia Rebek imagines a collection of recycled clothes, Gregory Chatonsky captures archival images and the intelligence of 25 buildings with his murals, Anouk Kruthoff makes us discover hundreds of buildings in the Docks Vauban shopping center. World Dances, Mathieu Mercier updates the republican slogan on the pediment of the City Hall with words that evoke pleasure or desire: voluptuousness, diversity, curiosity, etc. It is up to us, the public, to become interested in discovering all these works in public space.
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Summer in Le Havre: from June 24 to September 17.
In the video, behind the scenes of the Grand Prix de L’Héroïne evening Madame Figaro
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Comical atmosphere
Cornelius Editions is launching a new collection in a compact format reminiscent of American comics that’s easy to slip into a large pocket or bag. Three titles were released. Supers:by Hugo Micol, anti-refluxBy David Amram, and this A whimby Charles Burns, using images inspired by books that never existed; And to dive into the heart of a very special spaceship, drawn from memories of Tintin and the love of horror films from the 1940s and 1950s. JJ:
A whim, by Charles Burns. Cornelius Editions. 32 p. 13 euros
Source: Le Figaro
