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Biased? Certainly. But Working on It

Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

Biased? Certainly. But I’m Working on It
A conversation with Dr. Violetta Zujovic, Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute

Talk at FIAF and meeting with Violetta Zujovic and Alyse Nelson
New York | March 15th | Decoding Gender Bias | Register Here

Everything that follows in this post is biased. 

I would like to write you the opposite, to reassure you, even to convince you of the authenticity of my words. But in the interests of sincerest dishonesty, and according to Violetta Zujovic, a doctor in neuroscience and team leader at the Paris Brain Institute, I am biased. 

I might as well accept it. Besides, I am not the only one. “We all are,” Violetta explains. 

“Everything around us is a reproduction that our brain creates to simplify our lives,” Violetta tells me. “Our brain spends its time storing information and sometimes reconstructing a reality that is sometimes an illusion.”

By simplifying, taking shortcuts, analyzing, and judging the other as quickly as possible, our conclusions are not based on the reality of a person or a situation. Instead they are the result of a narrowed perception influenced by our experiences, our culture, and our education.

I believe that I should also share here the motivation and context of this paper.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, New York, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Assouline, Contessa Brewer, Decoding Gender Bias, Gender Bias, Institut du Cerveau, Martine Assouline, Mathilde Augé, Maurice Levy, Paris Brain Institute, Tatyana Franck, Violetta Zujovic, Vital Voices

When Art Meets Wine, Champagne Loves It

Posted on December 21, 2022December 24, 2022by JC AgidLeave a comment

When art meets wine, champagne loves it
(Post based on a conversation held at the Payne Whitney Mansion in New York City on October 26th, 2022 during a fund-raiser dinner presented by the American Friends of La Cité du Vin).

In 1973, Château Mouton Rothschild paid tribute to Pablo Picasso, who passed away on April 8th of that year, by decorating the Premier Cru Classé with an Atelier Mourlot printed label reproduction of the 1959 master’s painting, Bacchanale.  A century before, in 1874, Louise Pommery created the first brut champagne and became famous for patronizing art and artists.

To celebrate the symbiotic relationship between art and wine, which was highlighted in the 2022 Cité du Vin exhibition ‘Picasso, the Effervescence of Shapes,’ the American Friends of the Cité du Vin invited Maïlys Vranken, President of Vranken Pommery America, and Éric Mourlot for an exclusive conversation. “There are serious dinners in New York,” said the co-host of the evening, France’s Cultural counselor in the United States and director of Villa Albertine Gaëtan Bruel, “and there are joyous ones; this one is a mix of both.”

So, while tasting a vertical of Pommery Champagne, including a Blanc de Blancs Apanage and a Cuvée Louise 2005 paired with a dinner prepared by Tastings NYC-SoFlo and Alain Ducasse veteran chef Laetitia Rouabah, Maïlys Vranken and Eric Mourlot told the tales of their artisanal companies’ own relationships with art and artists.

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged Alain Ducasse, Alexandra Morris, American Friends of the Cite du Vin, Cite du Vin, David Wolf, Emile Gallé, Eric Mourlot, Fernand Mourlot, Gaëtan Bruel, Gustave Navlet, JC Agid, Jean-Christian Agid, Laetitia Rouabah, Mail, Mourlot Editions, Mouton Rothschild, Mouton Rotschild, Picasso, Pommery, Pommery Prize, Reynier LReynier Leyva Novo, Tastings NYC-SOFLO, Vranken, Vranken Pommery, Vranken Pommery America

Révélations

Posted on August 16, 2022September 24, 2022by JC Agid1 Comment

Révélations, Entretien avec l’artiste Jean-Pierre Formica

Les plissures du visage du peintre et sculpteur Jean-Pierre Formica, ses yeux aussi, le choix méticuleux des mots et sa façon inattendue de les lier ensemble laissent apparaître à la surface un univers coloré et poétique, une volonté de rendre visible l’invisible. Si cette œuvre était une photographie argentique, Jean-Pierre Formica en serait le révélateur, l’agent essentiel qui permet à l’image d’apparaître et se figer sur le papier.

Il y a aussi inscrit sur le visage de Formica la force du soleil salé de la Camargue, la curiosité insatiable d’un homme mû par l’incertitude, un regard presque détaché, surpris peut-être de l’intérêt que son œuvre suscite, sa reconnaissance polie.

Une sélection des œuvres de Jean-Pierre Formica sera visible à New York du 6 au 30 septembre 2022. Cette exposition, « Révélations », juxtapose des peintures et sculptures récentes dont les déchirures pour les premières et les accumulations pour les secondes donnent « forme à l’informe ». Elles « révèlent » pour reprendre l’expression de l’artiste.

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Posted in Architecture, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, New York, Uncategorized
Tagged Aigues-Mortes, Arles, Boccara Gallery, Charging Bull, Christian Lacroix, Experience Pommery, Franck Laverdin, Jean-Pierre Formica, Laverdin Fine Arts, Nathalie Vranken, New York, Paul-François Vranken, Peintre, Révélations, Sculpteur

The Odessa Tear

Posted on March 6, 2022April 4, 2022by JC AgidLeave a comment

THE ODESSA TEAR
(The original French version was published via National Geographic France and La Règle du Jeu. Click here to read).

The man from Odessa had taken off neither his coat nor his cap, he was carrying his bag on his shoulder and inside was an umbrella, his hands were tucked in his pockets. He was standing next to a piano still covered with a thick purple cloth that protected it from the dust. We could hear a heavy, repetitive, dull sound, a constant background of hammers and flashlights coming from the scaffolding below. The long gallery we were in was plunged into an involuntary gloom. It didn’t matter to the old and mischievous pianist who was playing standing up. At that moment, nothing could disturb him. He too had kept his long black gabardine on. He was impatient and unquenchable. A thirst of flats and sharps, a musical emergency!

I was standing on the opposite side of the piano, carrying on my shoulder a camera, which I barely knew how to operate. The sound was hesitant, and the underexposed image, blurred and distant—on the screen as in time—has remained to this day a testimony of a brief and joyful moment, the crazy promise of a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, a city of poets and musicians, Odessa, suddenly free of the Soviet bear hug. 

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Posted in ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Politics, Ukraine, Uncategorized
Tagged Bernard-Henri Lévy, BHL, Cherkassky, Christa Phelps, Hobart Earle, Kites, ludmila Ginzburg, Odesa, Odessa, Romain Gary, Russia, Shura Cherkassky, Stolyarsky Music School, War in Ukraine

Jumai Victor

Posted on January 12, 2022January 17, 2022by JC AgidLeave a comment

JUMAI VICTOR
Entretien avec Bernard-Henri Lévy, à l’occasion de la première américaine à New York de son film 
Une Autre Idée du Monde—The Will to See à New York le 16 janvier 2022.

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À la fin de l’année 2019, Bernard-Henri Lévy rentre du Nigeria avec un reportage d’une force rare. Il décrit les actes meurtriers, odieux et terroristes d’un groupe « plus ou moins liés à Boko Haram », « des islamistes d’un genre nouveau » : les Fulanis. De village en village, ils attaquent, brulent et assassinent les Chrétiens du Nigeria. Bernard-Henri Lévy nous présente une de leurs récentes victimes, Jumai Victor. Cette femme, « une évangéliste », se recueille sur une tombe, celle de son mari et de ses quatre enfants assassinés. Elle survit à cette attaque. Enceinte, les Fulanis ont épargné sa vie, mais certains d’entre eux lui ont tranché, l’un après l’autre, les doigts, puis la main et l’avant-bras.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fire Chat With, Politics, Society, Uncategorized, Women Empowerment
Tagged Ahmad Massoud, Bernard-Henri Lévy, BHL, Ce virus qui rend fou, Covid-19, Don Quichotte, Emmanuel Levinas, Jumai Victor, New York Jewish Film Festival, Romain Gary, Saint Exupéry, T.E. Lawrence, The Will to See, Une autre idée du monde, Vital Voices

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