Guest Post · What's On Provence & Cote d'Azur Winter in Marseille December 8, 2014If you are in Marseille for the Christmas lights and market, you may like to drop into the new exhibition at the Maison de l’Artisanat which is showing three centuries of seasonal objects from St Petersbourg. Fine china and costumes are arranged in tableaux taking the visitor back to the court.…Continue Reading
Guest Post · Inspire · What's On Provence & Cote d'Azur Museum of Contemporary Art Hip Hop Exhibition in Marseille June 23, 2017This week sees a new expo at MAC, Marseille’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Hip-Hop started in the South Bronx, where, surrounded by economic deprivation, the young generation developed creative ways to party, dance, paint the urban environment and challenge the establishment. It spread, district by district, across New York, animating the metro, nightclubs and trendy art …Continue Reading
What's On Provence & Cote d'Azur Le Géant des Mers coming to Marseille May 12, 2016Perhaps you saw the launch of the new Harmony of the Seas cruise ship yesterday on the TV news when it set off for its trials from the dockyard at Saint-Nazaire. It’s wider than the existing world’s largest ship (the Allure of the Seas) by a metre, and has 16 decks.…Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire Poetry in Painting: Joseph Inguimberty at Musée Regards de Provence July 21, 2017He is not an artist I had ever heard of, but I came away impressed by this discovery courtesy of the Musée Regards de Provence. Joseph Inguimberty was born in Marseille back in 1896. Here, one of his early works captured the scenes in the docks of his home town. This artist’s works from Marseille …Continue Reading
