On the occasion of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad, Paris Musées is expanding its podcast offering with its new series “Paris Musées Olympiques”.
L’Cultural Olympiad Paris 2024it is a unique program combining artistic practice and sports culture, around several major events, from summer 2022 to September 2024.
The 12 episodes of “Paris Olympic Museums” constitute one of these appointments and allow you to discover the works of the museums of the City of Paris, under the prism of the Olympic Games. Each episode with its unique writing is a fiction that immerses listeners in sports disciplines – archery, dance, fencing, dance, tennis, rugby, cycling, rowing, swimming, horse riding, etc. – and retraces the sometimes forgotten big and small stories of the Olympic Games, of the famous sculpture Heracles Archer from Antoine Bourdelle to the practice of fencing by Victor Hugo.
Designed with binaural sound technology, the series was produced by Nuits Noires, a workshop specializing in immersive sound creation with the expertise of the curators of the City of Paris museums and the assistance of the digital department of Paris Musées.
“Paris Musées Olympiques” completes an online offer of more than 250 podcasts and conferences, offered since 2020.
> Play tennis at the Palais Galliera
The episode “Game, set and fashion” is dedicated to women’s tennis. Based on a photograph by Egidio Scaioni kept at the Palais Galliera, listeners discover how women tennis players enabled the development of this outdoor hobby in the 1920s and 1930s, but also how they emancipated themselves through their outfits.
Suzanne Lenglen is the first woman to revolutionize the history of tennis: she is recognizable among all, by her ample gestures with postures that are sometimes more artistic than athletic, but also for her outfits designed by Jean Patou. The French couturier made her an outfit that contrasted with the usual style of the players, “enclosed” in their long dresses and covered with a large hat.
In 1921, the French Olympic champion caused a sensation on the lawn of Wimbledon: she appeared there wearing a sleeveless white cardigan, a pleated white silk skirt revealing her legs sheathed in white stockings and her immaculate ballet flats. As for the hat, it was replaced by a tulle headband that would be almost as iconic as the Lacoste shirt, several years later.
From then on, fashion on the courts was launched: “the sporty silhouette [devient] absolute chic”, to use the expression of Jean Patou himself!
Photograph by Egidio Scaioni (circa 1925-1930), collection of the Palais Galliera
> Listen to all the episodes
► The beauty of the gesture at the Bourdelle museum
The Bourdelle Museum takes listeners to the 1924 Olympic Games art competition through sculpture Heracles Archer by Antoine Bourdelle.
► In pen and foil at the Maison Victor Hugo
The Victor Hugo house explores the fencing of which Charles and Victor Hugo were keen, as Auguste Vacquerie’s photograph attests.
► In the melee of colors at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
The Museum of Modern Art in Paris joins The Cardiff team thanks to the work of Robert Delaunay, representing a rugby match.
► Art shooting at the Cernuschi museum
The Cernuschi Museum sets off on the Kisokaido Route and meets Yuriwaka Dajin, a Japanese hero depicted archery in the series of prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
► Resistance at the top at the Paris Liberation Museum – General Leclerc Museum – Jean Moulin Museum
The Paris Liberation Museum follows in the footsteps of Jean Moulin, a French resistance fighter, by following the story of his skis.
► Games, sets and fashion at the Palais Galliera
The Palais Galliera puts on the outfits of tennis players from the 1930s.
► Caricature takes the plunge at Balzac’s house
The house of Balzac discovers rowing in the work Learning about nautical pleasure by Honoré Daumier.
► Pedaling towards emancipation at the Petit Palais
The Petit Palais takes the key to the fields for a stroll through the work Cycling in Le Vésineta painting by Léon-François Comerre.
► Plunging angle at the Carnavalet-History of Paris museum
The Carnavalet museum plunges into Deligny swimming pool from a photograph by Henri Cartier Bresson, taken in 1955.
► On the cutting edge of art at the Cognacq-Jay museum
The Cognacq-Jay museum is organizing a dance session with the Three dancers in a landscape by Pierre Lelu.
► On the art of going it alone at the Museum of Romantic Life
The Museum of Romantic Life takes listeners to 1839, to meet the Jumper jumping a palisadea sculpture created by Marie d’Orléans.
► Body to body on paper at the Zadkine museum
The Zadkine museum sneaks into the work The wrestlersa drawing by Ossip Zadkine made in 1943.
Co-produced by Paris Musées and Nuits Noires, these podcasts are available on Soundcloud, Deezer, Spotify, Youtube, Aushaet Apple Podcast
