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CULTURE
CINEMA
Review: 'The Lobster' ridicules date-or-die mentality
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has raised a cult following with his ingeniously quirky satires. His first English-language feature, which opens in French cinemas on Wednesday,…
ART
In pictures: Art lovers, tourists flock to outdoor FIAC show
The 42nd Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) officially opened in Paris on Thursday, including the event’s popular Hors les Murs programme, which showcases artwork…
RWANDA
Belgian pop sensation Stromae wows Kigali in landmark show
Belgian pop star Stromae has wowed the crowd in Kigali in a landmark concert and homecoming for the half-Rwandan singer, whose father was killed in the 1994 genocide.
ART
€10 million Basquiat painting recovered after theft in Paris
A painting by famed contemporary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat worth an estimated 10 million euros ($11.3 million) was recovered Saturday, hours after it was stolen from its…
RWANDA
Video: Rwandans hail return of 'long-lost son' Stromae
Kigali on Saturday prepared for the highly-anticipated arrival of its “long-lost son”, the Belgian hit-sensation Stromae, whose father vanished in the 1994 genocide and who is…
TELEVISION
Artists sneak ‘Homeland is racist’ graffiti onto hit TV show
A trio of artists hired to spray graffiti in Arabic to lend an air of authenticity to the set of the hit US television show Homeland sneaked in subversive messages denouncing the…
FRANCE - ANTHROPOLOGY
Museum of Mankind reopens after brush with extinction
It’s been looted to fill a rival museum and shuttered for years. Now the Musée de l'Homme, one of the world’s greatest museums of anthropology, is reopening in Paris with a…
LITERATURE
Jamaican author Marlon James wins Man Booker prize
Marlon James was named as the first Jamaican winner of the Man Booker prize for fiction on Tuesday for his reggae- and drug-infused novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings”…
MEDIA
Playboy magazine to stop publishing nude photos
Now readers of Playboy, the glossy men’s magazine known for its nude fold-outs, can honestly say they are buying the magazine for its articles.
LITERATURE
New Asterix comic inspired by Julian Assange
Asterix and his friend Obelix are once again poised to set the Roman Empire on fire with the global release of a new opus that sees them team up with a journalist modelled on…
SCIENCE
Ancient skeleton reveals vast migration 'back to Africa'
Up to a quarter of the western Eurasian population migrating into Africa: the suggestion may startle readers accustomed to migrants heading the other way, but scientists argue…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Nobel laureate on Russia: 'The time of hope is over'
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of this year’s Nobel literature prize, tells FRANCE 24 that Russia’s new-found belligerence is a “terrifying legacy” of its…
NOBEL PRIZE
Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus wins Nobel literature prize
Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union which the Swedish Academy said was “a monument…
ART
'Picasso.mania’ show explores his influence on modern art
A new exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso’s influence on contemporary art opens at the Grand Palais in Paris on Wednesday, bringing together more than 400 works – many of them…
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