On the occasion of the Un Week-End à l'Est festival, which this year honors the Romanian art scene, Cristian Mungiu, patron of this 9th edition, discusses the making of his book Une vie roumaine (A Romanian Life), in which he questions his relationship with truth and reminds us that storytelling remains an act of resistance. In conversation with Arnaud Laporte, journalist and producer at France Culture.
The quest for immortality, cryogenics, personal development, resource depletion, pyropictomania (or the pleasure derived from images of energy dissipation)... From the American West to the Atlantic coast, against a backdrop of climate catastrophe, we meet the authors of two books devoted to the technological turning point we are currently experiencing. How do these writings, connected to the visual arts and imbued with displacement, capture this turning point?
Elizabeth Peyton, artist in residence at the Louvre since May 2024 and holder of a studio within the museum, invited a dozen students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris to come and copy Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished masterpiece, Saint Anne, with her in the museum's galleries.
Congratulations to Constance Nouvel, graduate and honoree of Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010, winner of the sixth edition of the LE BAL / ADAGP Prize for Young Creation for her project Parole divine - Images d'ici, et au-delà (provisional title). The artist will receive a grant of €20,000 to help her complete her project. It will be exhibited at Le BAL in 2027, accompanied by a publication.
We are delighted to announce the signing of a partnership agreement between Formasup Paris IDF and Beaux-Arts de Paris, represented by Valérie Cantat-Lampin, Managing Director of Formasup Paris IDF, and Éric de Chassey, Director of Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Musée d'Orsay is dedicating an exhibition to John Singer Sargent until January 11, 2026. Recognized in the United States and the United Kingdom as one of the major painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his name and work remain largely unknown in France. Yet it was in France that he trained, built up his network of artists, and enjoyed his first successes.
As part of its commitment to emerging contemporary art, Rubis Mécénat is supporting the professional development of young artists from Beaux-Arts de Paris for the fifth consecutive year. This fall, Liselor Perez, winner of the 2025 award, will create an installation on display at the Saint-Eustache church, with critical guidance from exhibition curator Julia Marchand.
