The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, digital innovation, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight other cities across the country, the Cultural Services brings artists, authors, intellectuals and innovators to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, through its bookshop Albertine, it fosters French-American exchange around literature and the arts.
Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the News
Albertine Prize in AP
Not One Day by Anne Garréta, an intimate and sometimes bitter recounting of past lovers, has received the 2018 Albertine Prize.
Read More →Albertine launches new literary prize
Albertine, the acclaimed bookshop of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, launched the Albertine Prize.
Read More →Festival Albertine Returns to NYC
For the second year in a row, PKPR handled publicity for Festival Albertine. Coverage highlights include a feature in the New York Times.
Read More →Night of Philosophy in NY Times, New Yorker, WSJ
Over 5,000 people waited in line for up to three hours to attend the first-ever Night of Philosophy in New York City last week.
Read More →NYC gets ready for all-night philosophy jam
Over 14,000 people have RSVP’d on Facebook to attend the first-ever 12-hour Night of Philosophy in New York City.
Read More →A Philosophy All-Nighter in New York Times
PKPR placed an exclusive with the New York Times on the announcement of New York City’s first-ever Night of Philosophy on April 24-25.
Read More →Albertine in NY Mag’s Best of New York
Albertine Books in French and English is singled out for Shopping in New York Magazine’s annual Best of New York issue.
Read More →Albertine Festival Debuts
Matthew Weiner, Joseph Stiglitz, andJohn Nash were among the leading French and American thinkers that headlined the first Festival Albertine.
Read More →Full page NY Times feature on Festival Albertine
PKPR placed a full-page feature in today’s New York Times on the opening of Albertine and the kick-off its six-day festival.
Read More →Albertine in WSJ , Paris Review, Time Out
In advance of the official September 27th opening of Albertine, PKPR secured a flurry of preview stories in national and local media.
Read More →Albertine in Vogue’s iconic September issue
Inside the pages of the iconic September issue of Vogue: Albertine, the French Embassy’s new bookshop and reading room in New York City.
Read More →Proust Celebration on NY Times Arts Front Page
In celebration of the centennial of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, dozens of French and American artists participated in a weeklong live reading of the classic.
Read More →Plans unveiled for NYC’s only French bookshop
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented author Philip Roth with the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor.
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