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The 2010 fall season is well underway at Cultural Services, from French electro-pop in Los Angeles to performances by acclaimed French choreographers in New York, art exhibitions in Detroit, Seattle, Dallas and Nashville or a French film festival in San Francisco.

Here is the rundown of French Culture highlights: SAN FRANCISCO: A weeklong annual festival, French Cinema Now brings the most significant new work from French filmakers to the Bay Area. The festival covers a bbroad spectrum of subject matter and genres.

SEATTLE: The Seattle Art Museum presents Picasso : Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris , a landmark exhibition presenting iconic works from virtually every phase of Picasso’s influential career.

DETROIT: A major exhibit of French Regional Contemporary Art Funds (Frac), Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists—with an emphasis on artists living in France.

NASHVILLE: After a very successful run in San Fransico, The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay opens mid-October. The exhibition offers is a rare opportunity to see a collection of French impressionist paintings from the Musee D’Orsay including Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and more.

NEW YORK: Many acclaimed French choreographers will be presenting works in New York venues this month offering an interesting look at important currents in contemporary French dance. Click here to download a complete DancePerformances Program.

A series of published interviews between French and American artists, Dance Dialogues: Conversations between American and French Choreographers initiated by the Arts Deparment of Cultural Services is also to download. This publication includes interviews by many of the artists performing in the US this fall.

DALLAS: Sculptures from the tomb of John the Fearless, second duke of Burgundy will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art for an exceptional exhibit entitled The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy Best, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy