Vietnamese Coffee Workshop

Join us for an intimate and engaging Vietnamese coffee workshop at the Alliance Française, in collaboration with Vietfive coffee. Vietnamese coffee is known for its strong, bold flavor and unique brewing style.

How to Make a Landscape Speak? Photography, Aesthetics, and Environmental Histories

Landscapes hold traces of human histories—political, colonial, social, and economic. If they serve as records of histories and narratives—sometimes violent ones—how do photographers, acting as archaeologists of contemporary landscapes, translate these memories into images?

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World

Gustave Caillebotte is probably the least known of the Impressionists circle due to his short life, and the fact that his paintings remained for years in his brother’s collection. Although his gift to the French state in 1894 was the foundation of today’s Musée d’Orsay, Caillebotte’s revolutionary ideas about depicting modern life subjects, his altogether groundbreaking paintings of men at work, play, and even toweling off after a bath, continue to appeal and surprise.

The Jewelry of Christian Dior

Stuart Dyer will be exploring the revolutionary jewelry designs of Christian Dior – especially the pieces from the mid-20th century. Join Stuart after the program for an Alliance boutique of her vintage treasures including rare vintage Christian Dior pieces.

Luxury After The Terror

When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, the king’s death was to mark the physical end of the monarchy in France and sever the vast networks of luxury that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court.