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Big French Kisses More or less every summer we publish a list of the most popular stories of the year so far... There's a definite French takeover this year, which we love of course. [Erm, sometimes with English subtitles]

Big French Kisses

More or less every summer we publish a list of the most popular stories of the year so far... There's a definite French takeover this year, which we love of course. [Erm, sometimes with English subtitles]

by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: August, 2017

approximate reading time: minutes

Pushing back against French poets, Haitian painters and Malian musicians... British Gangsters - Best British Film of 2017? The World We Knew in at #17.

The biggest stories of the year so far and wow, an undeniable, exciting French trend...

  1. Un voyage dans l'univers de l'artiste Thierry Barthole by Guilaine Arts
    En quête de perfection?
  2. That is Transvision by Guilaine Arts
    Arts group The Smartest Project's Haitian Art pop up gallery show, Transvision, is a Voyage into The Visionary World of Haitian Art
  3. Greta Alfaro: El cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos by Lee Paul
    SCAN in London presents the video series The Looking Glass. The first episode features Greta Alfaro's El cataclismo nos alcanzará impávidos
  4. My Art is Made of Wood by LamontPaul
    Sculptor and furniture designer Chantal Pitts creates giant sculptured wooden art as furniture, and furniture as art. Who knows what she will do next...
  5. Walker Brigade by LamontPaul
    Los Angeles' retro art punks rock their debut LP the Therapy Animal
  6. Kahlo, Van Gogh, Beaudelaire, Toi et Moi by Christian Present
    Christian Present: Naturel et Pluriel
  7. Christian Present: Le verbe ne se plaint pas du vide by Guilaine Arts
    En quete d'un Moi en proie aux exterieurs de la nature
  8. Wild Ponies are the Best Thing They Put in the Library Since the Books by LamontPaul
    Nashville's Wild Ponies get off the beaten track and end up at the Thimblemill Library in Bearwood
  9. Picture This #2: Joe Baiza by Hamilton High
    Joe Baiza photographed by street photographer Deb Frazin at Cafe Nela
  10. L'amour by Christian Present
    Je t'aime mais dois-je t'aimer?
  11. Nathalie Durand: La Melodie de L'ile Rouge by Christian Present
    Christian Present de outsideleft nous presente la superstar du jazz Nathalie Durand (english translation by Guilaine A)
  12. Welcome Strangers! The Blue Aeroplanes Take Off by Jason Lewis
    Jason crawls out of his sick bed to deliver his belated Blue Aeroplanes review.....
  13. Big Loss: William Onyeabor by LamontPaul
    Idiosyncratic Nigerian musician, William Onyeabor is gone.
  14. Sleaford Mods: Divide and Brexit by Jason Lewis
    English Tapas is the first Sleaford Mods album for Rough Trade - Does that herald a better class of track pants? Jason Lewis finds out...
  15. A Lover Should Enchant... by Lee Paul
    Poet Pixievic's book, Pixiekisses gets an official launch at the Ort
  16. Tinariwen's Glee by Jason Lewis
    Tinariwen live at the Glee Club in Birmingham
  17. The A to Z of P S P by Lee Paul
    New British gangsters & ghosts film, The World We Knew, is underway from micro-indie Powis Square Pictures...
  18.  Dirty Projectors by Lee Paul
    I Wanna Be Where You Are
  19. Tinariwen's Sub Saharan Homesick Blues by Jason Lewis
    Exiled from their Mali home, renowned nomads Tinariwen recorded their 7th album in the deserts of California, Morocco and Paris...
  20. Pogus Caesar: Seditionary by LamontPaul
    Pogus Caesar rips up his work and starts again

LamontPaul
Founder & Publisher

Publisher, Lamontpaul founded outsideleft with Alarcon in 2004 and is hanging on, saying, "I don't know how to stop this, exactly."

Lamontpaul portrait by John Kilduff painted during an episode of John's TV Show, Let's Paint TV


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