The soulful and magnetic voice of Madjo will automatically charm you whether she sings in English or French. She possesses  a powerful voice which  captivates the listener bringing him/her into the world of this talented singer, writer, composer.

The French duo formed by Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay, is the band of a whole generation.

The heir to a powerful musical legacy, Seun Kuti lights up the stage in a rousing celebration of Afrobeat music!

The musical style of M83 owes something to the shoegazing genre in its extensive use of reverb effects and lyrics spoken softly over loud instrumentals, although M83′s songs employ considerably less guitar than most shoegazing bands.

The French conductor Stéphane Denève and French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will perform two works by French composers—Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concert No.5 and Roussel’s Spider’s Feast— in four concerts.

This enchanting French soprano is an artist of fierce musical intelligence who is currently riding high on a string of impressive artistic accomplishments.

An iconoclastic artist, Nathalie Talec moves between live performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. For thirty years, she has developed her emotionally-charged “sentimental art,” proclaiming her ambition to re-enchant our daily lives.

After traveling to Montreal and Dallas, the popular fashion exhibition, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk will be making its final stop at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often fraught acts of description, narration, translation, and communication.

The outlaw country singer, painter, writer, and conceptual artist Terry Allen offers his multimedia theater piece: Ghost Ship Rodez. The narrative arc encompasses the 17 days tormented French playwright and actor Antonin Artaud spent chained to a metal cot in the bowels of a ship as he was being deported from Ireland back to France.

Ambitious and elegantly made, Bertrand Bonello‘s film depicts life in a Paris brothel at the turn of the 20th century

“A MAJOR EVENT! Don’t wait for it to come to a theater near you — getting Gance’s magnum opus on a screen is a herculean task!”— Martin Scorsese, Vanity Fair

Brownlow, the first film historian ever honored with a special Academy Award in 2010, became fascinated with Gance’s film when still a schoolboy in London in the 1950s.

This program is a series of portraits of world-class directors discussing their work. From the epic to the intimate, these films provide a rare opportunity to hear filmmakers speaking openly and directly.