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Ever since Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass in 1863, dozens of artists have adopted and reworked this symbolism. Picasso charged the scene with tingling eroticism, Mickalene Thomas turned it into a political statement, and Daniel Spoerri reworked it into a warning about ecological issues.

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Luncheon on the Grass or Picnic Theory

Ever since Manet painted Luncheon on the Grass in 1863, dozens of artists have adopted and reworked it

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A shipwreck in 1816 shocked young artist Théodore Géricault... and his imagery was the starting point for generations of other artists to portray their own shock and dissent. The Cooperative des Malassis denounced the evexcesses of capitalism while Kader Attia criticises the shipwrecks of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Raft of the Medusa, or Staying Alive

A shipwreck in 1816 shocked young artist Théodore Géricault

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In 1960, Yves Klein was photographed jumping from the second floor of a building. But did he really jump? To find out, Tehching Hsieh tried to do the same and broke both his ankles in the attempt, while Philippe Ramette learned to fly. Klein's leap launched a thousand others...

Leap into the Void or the Art of Fake

In 1960, Yves Klein was photographed jumping from the second floor of a building

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In 1917, Marcel Duchamp was told he could exhibit a piece of work and it could be anything he wanted. Taking the curators at their word, he signed a urinal and named it Fountain. A small, subversive act that profoundly shook the art world.

Fountain, or Art, the Index Finger and Pee

A small, subversive act that profoundly shook the art world...

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Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is ripe for reinterpretation given its notable absences: women, people of colour, and people with disabilities are invisible in this painting about the salavation of humanity. Enter modern artists challenging that narrative: Beth Edelson, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, and Raoef Mamedov.

The Last Supper, or the Art of Table Arrangement

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is ripe for reinterpretation given its notable absences

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Piet Mondrian is one of the pioneers of abstraction. For him, his scholarly compositions create order in the chaos of the world. His art sparked off countless iterations, from pop artist Tom Wesselmann to Yves Saint Laurent, who created an iconic dress.

Mondrian or the Art of Tidying Up

Piet Mondrian is one of the pioneers of abstraction

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25 naked and languid women loll about as the viewer becomes the voyeur. The Turkish Bath by Ingres makes men reflect on the staging of their desire, and women on their eroticisation. Man Ray, Jananne Al-Ani, Patrick Raynaud and Lalla Essaydi all have something to say back to the original work.

The Turkish Bath, So Hot!

25 naked and languid women loll about as the viewer becomes the voyeur: this is The Turkish Bath by Ingres

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The gay icons of Pierre and Gilles, the political manifesto of Mohammed Ali or the feminist art of Louise Bourgeois all have one common thread: they are reinterpretations of an original work, that of "Saint Sebastian" by Guido Réni.

Saint Sebastian, or to Suffer and to Orgasm

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What is hidden in the image of the ladies-in-waiting? Who is the true focus of the work? The viewer, the court ladies or the royal couple? There has been speculation about the painting by Velázquez for centuries. And ultimately everyone sees what they want in it.

The Ladies-in-Waiting, or the Art of Playing Dolly

What is hidden in the image of the ladies-in-waiting?

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A pipe which is not a pipe but the representation of a pipe: that's how Magritte humorously paved the way for the many subsequent interpretations of his famous piece. Présence Panchounette, Marina Fabre and Valentine Dervaux, and Nancy Fouts have all made their own versions of the iconic work.

This is Not a Pipe, or Non-Smoker Art

A pipe which is not a pipe but the representation of a pipe...

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Spotlight on the Sztuki Museum's collection of radical contemporary art, which has flourished in an old textile factory in the heart of the industrial city of Lodz, dubbed the ‘Polish Manchester’.

Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz

From Industry to Art

In the southern French town of Arles, the Luma Foundation, created by Swiss billionaire Maja Hoffmann, has transformed former railway workshops into an artistic and cultural space. The inclusion of a glittering 56-metre high tower by Frank Gehry divides opinion.

The Luma Arles

In the southern French town of Arles, the Luma Foundation, created by Swiss billionaire Maja Hoffmann, has transformed former railway workshops into an artistic and cultural space.

Women artists and thinkers give their view on women's progress. Alice Schwarzer, French icon of the women's movement, talks to us about 4,000 years of patriarchy and why women are still there are too nice. Viennese choreographer Florentina Holzinger doesn't give a damn about body norms and classic images of women. María Hesse, an author from Madrid, explores female sexuality.

Women artists and thinkers give their view on women's progress

Women's Rights in 2022: Progress or Backslide?

As a show of solidarity, Europe is displaying the colours of Ukraine, a country whose desire for democracy and freedom is perceived as a danger by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The pursuit of freedom is the subject of this episode of Twist. A desire shared by artists from all over the world.

The Pursuit of Freedom

The pursuit of freedom is the subject of this episode of Twist. A desire shared by artists from all over the world.

Twist

With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene. Featuring writer Sofi Oksanen, artists Flo Kasearu and Timo Toots, the Estonian Voices ensemble and rapper Tommy Cash

Estonia: Young, Digital, Provocative

With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene.

TWIST

A look at the tormented life of Clara Haskil (1895-1960), and the dazzling purity and fluidity of her unique sound. Her 10 year professional career was short but disproportionately influential.

The Magic of Interpretation

A look at the tormented life of Clara Haskil (1895-1960)

Clara Haskil

In Belgium, the former colliery site of Grand-Hornu is now home to a remarkable museum of contemporary art, which brings together the history of the industrial complex with works of art.

MACS in Grand-Hornu, Belgium

The Falckenberg Collection is one of the top-class private art collections in Europe, located in the Phoenix AG factory buildings in Hamburg. More than 2,000 works of contemporary art are on display and it's a who's who of contemporary art, including: Daniel Richter, Jonathan Meese, Monica Bonvicini and Katharina Sieverding.

The Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg

The Falckenberg Collection is one of the top-class private art collections in Europe.

An author once described this work as a portrait of a woman done by a painter who had forgotten to paint the feet, legs, thighs, stomach, hips, chest, hands, arms, shoulders, neck and head. 

The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet

Look but Don't Touch

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An investigation into a little-known story from the Second World War. Having planned and executed their mass murders, the Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

How the Nazis Covered up their Crimes

The Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

Operation 1005

In 2017, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was living and working from the separatist region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Critical of the self-proclaimed republic, he used pseudonyms to protect his identity. But one day he was exposed which led to his imprisonment and torture in the notorious Izolyatsia prison

The story of Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev who was imprisonment and tortured in the separatist region of Donbas.

The Torture Camp on Paradise Street

The planet's jet streams are being affected by rising temperatures in the Arctic. These streams are part of a wind system that circulates at high altitude around the Earth, and they have an influence on extreme weather events. Changes in them are bad news for life on Earth.

How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse

Changing jet streams are bad news for life on Earth

Winds of Change

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community. Wedged between Ukraine and Moldova, 450 kilometres long and a few dozen kilometres wide, it claimed independence in 1990.

Transnistria: Back to the USSR

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community.

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The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

Directed by Christof Loy in Helsinki

Rejected by the prophet Jochanaan, Salome forces her abusive stepfather to exact revenge.

Richard Strauss: Salome

The Maginot Line is a giant: Thousands of underground bunkers and concrete defences lining the French border, from Belgium to the Mediterranean. In its time it was celebrated as a technical masterpiece and thought to be impregnable, today it also stands for the trauma of the French defeat in 1940. The documentary looks at a military construction that is as fascinating as it is controversial.

France's Defensive Barrier

Thought to be impregnable, the French defensive barrier did not halt the German invasion in 1940.

The Maginot Line

Far away from the South Korean capital of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple. Three nuns live, pray and cook together here as they preserve the knowledge of centuries-old temple cuisine. The abbess of this small monastery is the charismatic Wookwan Sunim, revered in Asia as one of the best cooks in the world.

South Korea: Magic Temple Food

Far away from the South Korean metropolis of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple where three nuns live, pray and cook together 

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Lockdowns, crop failures due to climate change and the war in Ukraine are all to blame for soaring prices around the world.

Geopolitics of Inflation

Mapping the World Essentials

To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

After two months of fighting, the Russian troops had their advance towards the West blocked by fierce Ukrainian resistance. Forced to leave the suburbs of Kyiv, the occupying army left behind mass graves and horrific accounts of rape and abuse in their wake. Russia is now turning its efforts to the Dobas and the coastline along the Sea of ​​Azov. In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled.

 In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled

Ukraine: Kyiv in Spring

"They called us: 'Tutsi! Tutsi!' They took you out of the tent and did what they wanted with you." 

Prisca, Marie-Jeanne and Concessa say they survived the Rwandan genocide and sought safety in refugee camps, only to be repeatedly raped and abused by the French soldiers sent there to protect them. All describe similar horrors: abduction from their tent, the gang rapes, and the photos of the assaults taken by the soldiers. “We naively thought that the white man was a saviour, that he would bring peace,” sighs one of the women. While French army denies all accusations of rape, the three women filed a complaint with the French courts in 2004 and 2012. The investigation is now at a standstill.

Rwanda: The Silence of Words

Three survivors of the Rwandan genocide level terrible accusations at the French army

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus. The game finally leads them to the seaside resort of Atami, where the virtual world and real life collides.

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus

Petit ami parfait

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn. He performs his new album live: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

ARTE Concert Festival 2021

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.


Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Overture, Op. 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K. 271

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, "Spring", Op. 38

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival 2022

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Maria-João Pires plays Mozart

Ordinary Ukrainian citizens are preparing to resist the Russian invader by joining the army and helping the resistance in any way they can.

Ukraine: Resisting the Agressor

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the people of Kyiv together like nothing else. Calling on the spirit of the Maidan Revolution of 2014, they are ready to resist.

Ukraine: Maïdan Spirit

Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing. He's always been fighting for our right to enjoy a better future than the one we are making for ourselves. Perhaps a strange mission for someone with punk musical roots?

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Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing

Sting

Located about 100 km east of Odessa, in southern Ukraine, the city of Kherson was quickly taken by Russian forces on 2 March. Since then, the inhabitants have been living under Russian occupation. Our Ukrainian colleague Svitlana Pavuk reports on daily life there for TSN 1+1.

Kherson: Life under Russian Occupation

Dispatches From Ukraine: Local Journalists Report

Undermined by the corruption of its leaders, the country is going through one of the worst economic crises in its history. Since the collapse of the banking system, Lebanese people have seen their living standards plunge. The local currency has lost up to 90% of its value, and inflation is soaring. There are also shortages of fuel, electricity, and medicines. Some citizens even say Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a failed state. 

Lebanon: A People in Crisis

Since the collapse of the banking system, Lebanese people have seen their living standards plunge

Luncheon on the Grass or Picnic Theory

ARTJACKING! - How Artists Talk Back to Each Other

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Luncheon on the Grass or Picnic Theory

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The Raft of the Medusa, or Staying Alive

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Leap into the Void or the Art of Fake

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Fountain, or Art, the Index Finger and Pee

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The Last Supper, or the Art of Table Arrangement

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Mondrian or the Art of Tidying Up

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The Turkish Bath, So Hot!

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Saint Sebastian, or to Suffer and to Orgasm

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