Tarn. The Toulouse-Lautrec museum celebrates its centenary: here are the highlights
By Fabien Hisbacq
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It is a special year for the Toulouse-Lautrec museumin Albi. The most visited paying place in the Tarn. But like many similar establishments, it was hit hard by the Covid-19 epidemic. In 2019, it welcomed more than 175,000 visitors. In 2020, only 72,000 and in 2021… 85,000. Inevitably, this creates turbulence in finances. The museum must therefore recover.
And for that he goes in particular era changer. Until now, it was an independent local public establishment. But soon, it will be municipal. The Albi council expressed the wish during a vote in March 2022.
But in the meantime, there is also an anniversary to celebrate. By themselves. That of centenary of the creation of the museum and that of the donation of the Toulouse-Lautrec family, in 1922, 21 years after the death of the famous painter. And this year 2022 promises to be rich in entertainment capable of bringing many people to enter the Berbie Palace.
Here are just a few of the countless events planned for the next few months…
Conferences to start
From April 21, a cycle of nine conferences will be offered for the centenary of the Toulouse-Lautrec donation. It will be third every Thursday of the month, in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m.
At night we dance at the museum
On May 14, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., we can have a slum at the museum by trying out the famous french-cancan with professionals of this dance.
An exhibition-event with Edgard Degas
It’s the big chunk of the celebrations. The exhibition of the year is an event that goes far beyond the borders of the Tarn. From May 17 to September 4, 2022, visitors could discover “When Lautrec looks at Degas”. An exhibition that pays homage to the Albigensian artist, through his view of the works of Edgar Degas. A new approach questioning its sources of inspiration.
Rap at the museum!
After the dance, it is the rap which invites itself to the museum, the May 23. The group Elium will be filmed there in concert broadcast live on social networks.
A stroll and an unrecognizable garden
On June 4 and 5, 2022, it will be the centenary weekend. On Saturday, the Pastel Night will invite you to stroll from the Place des Cordeliers to the garden of the Palais de la Berbie, through shows, entertainment and lighting. On Sunday, the palace garden will be transformed to pay homage to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec every night in the summer.
Bright walks
From June 5 to September 4, at nightfall, the viewer will be immersed in a dreamlike world that takes him into the Parisian cultural life of the Belle Époque. A luminous stroll and 30-minute story, mixing visual arts and heritage in the garden of the Berbie Palace.
Occitan poems
From June 4 until the end of August, an exhibition, “Las filhas: Joan Bodon e Toulouse-Lautrec”, will link the paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec and the texts and poems of the Occitan author Jean Boudou, around girls theme.
Moulin Rouge at the cinema
The cinema has already visited the work and the life of the painter Toulouse-Lautrec. This was particularly the case with red Millby Baz Luhrmann, which will be screened on June 15.
A life-size Cluedo
The July 22, August 5 and October 22we will dive back into Albi at the end of the 19th centuryand century, for a life-size Cluedo imagined by the guides…
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the August 27, during the Urban festival, there will still be cancan. Workshops and wanderings in the heart of the city.
The Ballet du Capitole finally in Albi
This is the other big part of the celebrations with the exhibition. On September 28 and 29, 2022, the Ballet du Capitole will finally give Toulouse Lautrec by Kader Belarbi in Albi. A dialogue between the painter and the dance that marked him so much. Finally, because it was in Albi that the show was to be given first. The Covid-19 epidemic has been there. And Toulouse finally had the scoop on this impressive staging.
Toulouse-Lautrec takes over Albi
From October 15 to 22, the Albi tourist office will offer a week of activities to evoke the 19th centuryand century of Toulouse-Lautrec: guided tours, conferences, concerts, films…
Les Œillades at cabaret time
From November 22 to 27, the Francophone Film Festival Les Œillades will screen films on the theme of cabaret. There will also be participatory filming around Toulouse-Lautrec.
The cathedral dressed?
December, in Albi, rhymes with mapping. Monuments, including Sainte-Cécile Cathedral, see animated stories scroll by. And this time, of course, the theme will be… the centenary of the Toulouse-Lautrec museum.
In 2023, it continues!
It is a year of celebration. Not a calendar year. So it overflows. In 2023 there will still be a lot on the program. Among them, the International Chamber Music Meetings, which will celebrate the museum’s centenary by honoring French and European music from 1890 to 1923.
A commemorative stamp
Add to this, a memorial plaque, a special stamp, a special issue of the magazine knowledge of the arts reissued, cartoon exhibitionslectures on the intimate life and entourage of the painter and still many concerts and you will soon become an expert of the painter!
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