Culture

This ephemeral structure reminds us that Coachella is not just a sequence of concerts but also an art of space and appearance. The festival creates an environment, a sensation, an instantly recognizable image in which the music takes place. Its power lies as much in this scenography as in the mere accumulation of headliners.

Music

Why Coachella 2026 is betting on Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G to define this year’s pop center

2026-04-10

This archival image shows Grandmaster Flash, another key figure of early hip-hop, not Afrika Bambaataa. It recalls the moment when, in the 1970s Bronx, a few DJs turned neighborhood parties into a global culture. This context illuminates the founding generation to which Bambaataa belonged.

Music

Afrika Bambaataa dies at 68: revisiting ‘Planet Rock,’ the Zulu Nation and the most contested side of his legacy

2026-04-10

In Paris, the official selection announcement gave the first face of the 79th Cannes Festival, between institutional protocol and cinematic promise. This image sums up the event’s nature as both a cultural stage and a much-anticipated symbolic ordering. Even before opening on the Croisette, Cannes already asserts its method, authority, and place in the global film season.

Cinema

Cannes 2026 official selection leans on major auteurs and French cinema

2026-04-09

Music

How Laufey uses Blue in Green to bring Miles Davis back to a streaming generation

2026-04-01

‘Mary Beth Hurt never tried to force the light. In a face that remained intact into maturity is a rare presence capable of imposing intensity without raising its voice. Her death invites rewatching films where feminine margins often, in silence, carry an essential part of American cinema’s truth.’

Cinema

Mary Beth Hurt dies at 79: why this quiet Broadway actress changed the face of American cinema

2026-03-31

Céline Dion chose Paris to stage far more than a series of concerts. Ten dates in a giant venue make this return a full-scale test for the megashow market. The image conveys not just a comeback but a return to the center of the game in the city most symbolic for it.

Economy

Celine Dion bets everything on Paris: 10 mega-shows that reveal the new economics of live music

2026-03-31

France

At Paris’ Zénith, French-Congolese singer Theodora turns a breakthrough show into a bigger story

2026-03-30

On stage, Juan Martín Scalerandi brings the pampas into the light, between raised voice and the wood of the guitar. ‘© Ana Palma’

Designer

In conversation with guitarist Juan Martín Scalerandi, at the heart of the Argentine pampas

2026-03-30

Photographed at a Paris fair in 2008, Loana remains one of the most recognized faces of French reality TV. The announcement of her death in Nice on March 26, 2026, revived memories of a celebrity born from ‘Loft Story’. Behind the emotion, the judicial inquiry remains centered on the facts.

France

French reality TV star Loana found dead in Nice

2026-03-26

Against a dark blue backdrop, Eye Haidara appears facing the camera calmly, without spectacle or visual overload. This studio portrait already communicates something of her presence—clear and composed, far from Cannes flashes. It gives a defined face to the person the festival has chosen to carry its two most visible events.

Cinema

Eye Haidara will open and close the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

2026-03-25

Isabelle Mergault appears here with the direct intensity that long summed up her public presence. This portrait reminds us that beyond the immediately identifiable comic figure, she established herself as an author and director. It condenses the dual legacy she leaves: a popular face and a creator recognized later on.

Cinema

Isabelle Mergault’s career, from comedy roles to directing

2026-03-20

On the set of ‘Delta Force’ in 1986, Chuck Norris appears at the fulcrum of his trajectory. A champion turned movie star, then a television figure, he already wears on his face and in his gear the blend that made him singular. His death sheds retrospective light on a path where martial arts, the entertainment industry, and a certain American idea of authority constantly intersected.

Cinema

Chuck Norris, the ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ star, dies at 86

2026-03-20