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Kanye West’s Cultural Impact: Art, Controversy, and Industry Transformation
Few artists have shaped 21st-century music as profoundly as Kanye West. At once celebrated, criticised, and endlessly debated, he stands as one of the most polarising cultural figures of his generation. His public controversies have complicated his legacy, yet they have not erased the structural changes he brought to music, aesthetics, and the way artists Read more
Why Are Western Gen Zers « Turning Chinese »? Unpacking the #BecomingChinese Phenomenon
A British martial arts enthusiast demonstrates Chinese kung fu at the square in front of the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing on Monday. From China Daily In early 2026, if you open TikTok or Instagram, you’ll witness a peculiar sight: young blonde women boiling apple slices on camera, American youths at the gym swapping Read more
“Sorcières”: a new lecture of History at the Château des Ducs
If you thought witches are only good for scaring children in Grimm tales or making brooms fly in Harry Potter, it is time to review your classics. Until June 28, 2026, the Château des Ducs de Bretagne in Nantes invites us to a dizzying dive into one of the darkest and most fascinating periods of Read more
Sovereign Women in History and Art: An Eternal Ideological Stake
From Cleopatra to Elizabeth I, from Mary Stuart to Marie Antoinette, the names of great sovereign women evoke powerful myths of grandeur, beauty, and tragedy that nourish our imagination. But what remains of reality behind these narratives? Did Marie Antoinette really say, “Let them eat cake”? Was Cleopatra truly the most beautiful woman of the Read more
22nd Longueur d’Ondes Festival : Radio, Podcasts & Sound Innovation
From January 28 to February 1, the 22nd edition of the Longueur d’Ondes Festival, the “Festival of Radio and Listening,” took place in Brest. Since 2002, this event has been organized by four friends passionate about radio and sound expression: Laurent Le Gall, Aurore Troffigué, Laurent Venneuguès, and Hélène Vidaling. Over nearly five days, French-speaking Read more
Strike at the Louvre
Strikers protesting for better work conditions, higher wages and more workers, and against the obsolescence of the building and the LNR Project (© LeParisien LP/Ahmed Benazzouz) On Monday, February 16, an assembly of more than 200 employees of the Louvre Museum voted to go on strike, making it impossible to fully open the museum. Launched Read more
Culture 3.0: Towards a New Financial Structure for Cultural Institutions
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), Everydays: The First 5000 Days, 2021. NFT. ©Beeple From Speculation to Infrastructure: The Genesis of a Regulated Cultural Web 3.0 The year 2021 was marked by a sudden and unprecedented explosion in the field of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). This period was characterized by a level of speculative euphoria that remains difficult to Read more
Édouard Manet tried to warn us about the male gaze
We often come across the expression male gaze on the internet and in the media. It refers to the act, in arts, of depicting women and the world from a heterosexual male perspective. This perspective represents women as sexual objects, for the pleasure of the heterosexual male audience. The concept of male gaze was first articulated by the British Read more
Cultural Appropriation: The « Inspiration » Mask of the Luxury Empire
The years 2024 and 2025 have served as a harsh wake-up call for the global luxury industry. What was once dismissed as a « creative oversight » has evolved into a full-blown legitimacy crisis. When Prada debuted « leather sandals » in its Spring/Summer 2026 collection — priced at a staggering $1,200 — the internet’s « digital tribe » quickly identified Read more
Luxury and Art : A new cartography of cultural power
These last weeks, the luxury industry has found itself at the heart of a scandal. Several houses, including Dior or Valentino, which proudly display their artisanal excellence with the label “Made in Italy”, have been accused of having outsourced a part of their production in clandestine workshops, with workers paid only a few euros per Read more