What to see, what to do | The Press

What to see, what to do this week? Here are the cultural suggestions of our journalists.

Josee Lapointe
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Alexandre Vigneault
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Eric Clement
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Rufus Wainwright at Wilfrid-Pelletier

Already almost two years since the excellent Unfollow the Rules, his ninth studio album, has been released. At the end of his North American tour, the timeless Rufus Wainwright will finally present it here, on May 20 in Quebec at the Palais Montcalm and on May 21 in Montreal at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts. For the occasion, the singer will be surrounded by a band, a question of reproducing the pop richness of the album’s arrangements. For a classic and elegant evening, you can’t do better.

Kaytranada at Off Piknic

DJ and producer Kaytranada will perform on May 19 and 20 at the Off Piknic event. The electronic music composer who mixes hip-hop, funk and house, collaborator of Pharell Williams, Kendrick Lamar and Alicia Keys, was nominated for a Grammy this year for his album Back of my Mind, which won him Juno Awards for Director of the Year and Recording of the Year last weekend. His performance on Friday is sold out, but there are still places available this Thursday.

BYDealers Auction

The spring sale of the Quebec auction house BYDealers takes place online until May 29. Starring an oil painting by Jean Paul Riopelle, from 1973, estimated at around $1 million. And paintings by Serge Lemoyne, Rita Letendre, Fernand Leduc, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Jean McEwen, Marcelle Ferron and Marc Séguin. The 56 works for sale are on display until May 28 at BYDealers, at 6345, boulevard Saint-Laurent.

Photo exhibition at the National Assembly

Portraits of Quebec political figures are the subject of an exhibition until June 26 at the reception pavilion of the National Assembly, in Quebec. These little distributed images show dozens of politicians in public events such as the national holiday, but also more intimate portraits: Bernard Landry playing billiards, Lise Payette with Jacques Brel or Robert Bourassa with Guy Lafleur. Some images, such as a portrait of Félix-Gabriel Marchand, date back to the time of Confederation. Some of them come from The Press or from the La Presse collection of the National Archives.

The OFFTA is deployed indoors and outdoors

The OFFTA will take place indoors, but also in the public space. Throughout the duration of the festival, from May 27 to June 5, an installation called Cabin/Trace will be accessible every day from 1:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Place de la Paix. Guillaume Saindon and the 2359 company invite passers-by to enter the cabin to discover the work made of sounds, images… and vibrations, which reflects on memory and on these objects whose use changes around us. Other works on the program include The shop (presented in the basement of the Saint-Édouard church, a scenographic project that talks about places of commerce, in particular the Plaza Saint-Hubert) and Forest fireby Safia Nolin and Maryse Goudreau.

Beginning of the History Film Festival

The film The cacophony of the Donbass, by Ukrainian filmmaker Igor Minaïev, opened the fourth Montreal International History Film Festival on Wednesday evening. The festival continues at the Cinémathèque québécoise until May 22. Other films on the bill include The city of a dreamby Annabel Loyola, on the history of the founding of Montreal; Massoud, the legacy, by Nicolas Jallot, who takes us to Afghanistan; as well as the closing film Pointed Ass, by James Gray and Marie-Christine Lavoie, on our maritime history. The film February 15, 1839by Pierre Falardeau, will also be screened in a restored version thanks to the Éléphant project.