15.09.2016

 » The New York Times » a publié un article élogieux sur la Bourgogne (SEPT. 15, 2016):

En voici un extrait:

Satisfaction for nearly every appetite awaits in Burgundy. Food? The venerable aristocratic city of Dijon and the nearby medieval town of Beaune both reap the region’s bounty, which features numerous icons of French gastronomy. Under their spires and towers, you can start with asparagus and escargots, follow with Charolais beef — best sampled in a classic boeuf Bourguignon — dab on some Dijon mustard and wrap up with a cheese course of Brillat-Savarin and Époisses. Drink? Kick off with a Kir — a mix of local white wine and black currant liqueur named for a former Dijon mayor — and follow with wines from Burgundy’s legendary vineyards, which won Unesco World Heritage status last year. Art? Stroll the halls of contemporary galleries and venerable fine-arts institutions. Acquisition? Dijon’s covered produce market, antiques boutiques and contemporary design showrooms should sate the shopping urge. Whatever your pleasure, all you have to do is show up hungry.

6. Plunge Into Art, 2 p.m.

Since 2013, Dijon’s former municipal baths have been home to F.R.A.C. Bourgogne, one of many government-run exhibition sites around the country for the French state’s extensive and ever-expanding collection of international contemporary art. A large, menacing yellow enamel wasp clad in black mesh — a creation of the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos — welcomes you to the sprawl of white rooms, which hold rotating exhibitions. Even grander and more ambitious, Le Consortium occupies a former cassis liqueur factory with an annex by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban. Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, César, Donald Judd, Frank Stella and Richard Serra are among the marquee names who have exhibited at the institution over the years. Regular concerts, from experimental noise to world beat to electro, push the musical envelope too.

By SETH SHERWOOD