Luana and Alessandro Belmondo’s Italy, Alice Coltrane’s album, the reopening of the MAU in Troyes… Madame Figaro’s cultural week

Belmondos’ Little Kitchen

A love of good produce and good cuisine is written in the DNA of the Belmondo clan. The legendary Jean-Paul served Sunday dinners with his family, Luana, his daughter-in-law, is an accomplished and media chef, the author of many books, and Alessandro, the actor’s grandson, runs the Caillebotte restaurant in Paris. Curious to discover his country of origin, the chef embarked with his mother on a gastronomic journey to the other side of the Alps. In the documentary Belmondo, Heritage of ItalyIn Canal+ Docs, the duo travels from Sicily to Rome, from Venice to Tuscany, to discover local products and dishes (pistachio, ricotta, wine, aqua cotta soup, etc.) and indirectly bring up the family history (Paul’s car passion, family vacations in Capalbio, Luana’s childhood snacks, etc.). ). This story is presented as generously as its guides La Nostra Italya beautiful book adorned with new recipes, offering a gourmet and sentimental journey written by mother and son. M.L.

Belmondo, Heritage of Italyon April 13 at 21:00 on Canal+ Docs and myCanal. La Nostra ItalyBy Luana and Alessandro Belmondo, Éditions Solar Cuisine, 200 p., €27.

Alice Coltrane’s Mystic Jazz

In recent years, the legend of John’s widow, Alice Coltrane, has grown. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was rediscovered by a generation of musicians who saw great relevance in the trance of his music. In a constant search, her music reveals the genre that her husband best singled out, but adds outside influences, especially Indian music, which she quickly grew to love; he will also devote himself completely to it in the late 1970s, even opening an ashram in California. But in 1971, on the day of this legendary concert, in which she was accompanied by famous saxophonists, her husband’s traveling companions Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, but also Indian musicians, her art was in transition; look to hypnosis and Indian and Eastern iterations. In the same year 1971, he spent several months in India… The strength of Alice Coltrane, an accomplished pianist, an accomplished harpist and, above all, an incomparable band leader, is that she maintains a balance between her various strengths and the music. the influences that populate what he uses sonically during this concert; he plays on the very fragility of the musical material. Above all, he manages to strike the right balance between John Coltrane’s gut-wrenching power and the unmitigated melancholy that seems to carry him at every turn; half of the concert is made up of pieces of the husband, like a memory. never ceases to return, under the sounds, in the heart of the music. J.G.

Carnegie Hall concertImpulse.

MAU of Troyes according to the rules of art

On April 16, the Troyes Museum of Contemporary Art reopens its doors. After four years of work, it was renovated with new staging, new rooms and a new garden decorated with sculptures. Opened in 1982 by François Mitterrand and Jack Lange, the MAM, housed in a former bishop’s palace, was built in the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection museum houses the donation of more than two thousand works by the couple Pierre and Denise Levy to the state in 1976. “My simple ambition is for the visitor to understand that the collection is made with heart,” says Pierre Levy, who runs the industrial textile empire of which the Lacoste brand is a part, adding that “we don’t think; that making money is not fun. We have to look for something else.” It will be art, because the man who paints and caricatures himself is also drawing, and his wife, Denise, is taking lessons from the artist Maurice Marino. The new route begins with the realists (Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Gustave Courbet, etc.). Following impressionism and post-impressionism, Paul Gauguin and the Nabis (Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Felix Vallotton…), Fauvere (Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy…), Cézanne’s class (“I’m with an apple: I want to surprise Paris”), Cubist ​​the revolution (Juan Gris, Jean Metzinger, Julio Gonzalez…), the first school of Paris (Soutine, Modigliani), the second school of Paris… Added to that are such personalities as Bernard. Buffet or Balthus. The red wire? The issue of modernity in art. L.K.

Museum of Modern Art, 14, Place Saint-Pierre, Troyes. musee-troyes.com/musee-dart-moderne-de-troyes/