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The new batch of Michelin-starred restaurants was announced on March 18, with 52 new establishments honored, more than ever before. While the little red guide calls the shots among restaurateurs, it’s also the stuff of dreams for aficionados, for whom the bible of gastronomy has become a true collector’s item.
The surge in toy sales sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has tailed off, and the industry is now in a serious crisis. LEGO, Mattel and others see a potential lifeline in a new target: adults who play. The “escape into the inner child” could become a market worth billions.
Sales of vinyl have tripled in the past five years in France, and Paris trails only Tokyo. In this age of dematerialization, LPs symbolize a return to a ceremonial approach to music, a taste for beautiful objects and a desire to give and collect.
Seventy years after her death, displays in Buenos Aires, including a vast collection of pictures shown online, recall the life and times of “Evita” Perón, the Argentine first lady turned icon of popular culture.
“I try to tell what’s happening, but I try to be considerate, and also make poetic and beautiful images. It’s important to be sensitive, and acknowledge the complexity of what’s going on.” That’s how Italian photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli of the Contrasto agency recently described his work to the British Journal of Photography. A long-term project focused on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen just earned him the 2019 World Press Photo award for General News, Stories. Tugnoli recounted the stories behind five of his most powerful images from Yemen for this OneShot: Cinq video production. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/zru1H440qJU expand=1] Yemen Crisis — […]
We are sharing a selection of 5 OneShot videos from the new book by acclaimed photojournalist William Daniels – Wilting Point. We’ve collected them in a single Cinq production. Working for the world’s top newspapers and magazines, William Daniels has traveled the world to document conflict and societies on the brink of collapse. Wilting Point is a collection of images that weren’t destined for the news pages, but are connected by a particular aesthetic and that tenuous realm between life and death, light and darkness, which humanity has too often brought upon itself and the planet. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/X0XdPwWgmFE expand=1] Cinq […]
PARIS — Bob Dylan has long inspired musicians around the world, professional and otherwise, to sing his songs — and write their own. Some have done a bit of both, translating and singing versions of his masterpieces in different languages. With the Nobel Academy awarding the 2016 Literature prize to Mr. Bob, it seemed times […]
Newsmaking images that caught our eye.
Main picture: Santa Rosa Press Democrat/ZUMA With great passion comes great trouble: This could be the lesson learnt by a spider-and-bug-lover in northeastern France after he was suspected of trafficking the creepy crawlies. Investigators were puzzled by how the fifty-something man could afford his many trips to Guyana, Brazil and Madagascar despite living off state […]
HONG KONG — Rarely do Chinese names appear in news stories about people donating their art collections to museums. That is especially true in the realm of contemporary visual art. But prominent Chinese art collector Guan Yi recently made an exception by donating 37 pieces of his collection to Hong Kong’s M+ Museum, which is […]
TEL AVIV — For 40 years Arnie Druck has been a collector. He has built one of Israel’s largest and most impressive caches of Israeli and Jewish art, local photography, wines, books, artifacts linked to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and El Al airline memorablia. His four-decade foray into collecting sprouted from his Bar Mitzvah […]
LENS – Matthieu Debas, the owner of the “Chez Cathy” bar, is peeling some potatoes for tonight’s French fries. Across the street, he can see the faint lights of the construction site. On Rue Paul-Bert, cars are zigzagging around heavy equipment, lit up by the lights of the diggers. As the inauguration date of the […]