Books, Arts, Stage

History rigged? No doubt, and a few weeks before the special operation in Ukraine (i.e. the war), the Kremlin dictator had the Memorial association, a Russian human rights NGO, liquidated and dissolved, to shed light on the crimes committed during the USSR era. With Stalin, the Katyń massacre, police terror, political trials, the doctors’ plot affair, the Gulag, then with his successors and heirs, Soviet tanks and murderous repression in Budapest and Prague… but also Cuba and the missile crisis that brought the world to the brink. Modern mythologies, too, are searching for new ones, so it’s hardly surprising that in the sphere of politics, where the balance of power is constant, divisive individualities come to the fore wherever we stand. Our materialistic age needs new saints, models of sorts! What’s more, in totalitarian and dictatorial regimes, it’s piquant to note the almost deified image that leaders want to give of themselves to their people, especially in the case of Marxist regimes! You’d have to pinch yourself to believe it, even in the 21st century!

I’m beating my chest, I lacked regularity in writing for this section dedicated to…

The Women of Algiers in their apartment (Les Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement), a…

Our time is the reconstruction of minds, some speak of refoundation, undoubtedly! The XXth…

From our archives, originally published in march 2020. Epidemics and pandemics, we thought they…

Caricature consists of detecting the characteristic features of a face, deforming them to make…

One leaves this magnificent exhibition, which is a must-see, amazed by the vivacity of the lines, the freshness and purity of the colored shades that express a certain transience of being, redoubled by the fragility of the material. A praise to the painful beauty of the ephemeral perhaps?

As for each of you I imagine, I receive a flood of mails on…

Putin’s objectives for the offensive and war in Ukraine are becoming clearer with time.…

Partie de bateau by Gustave Caillebotte has just joined the museum’s impressionist collection. It cost 43 million € to acquire this painting, considered a National Treasure, and this was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the LVMH group.