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To mark the exhibition Le Syndrome de Bonnard, currently on display at the FRAC Ile-de-France and curated by the collective Le Bureau/—comprising Marc Bembekoff, Garance Chabert, Aurélien Mole, Céline Poulin and Émilie Villez—the curators reflect on the forms and methods of their curatorial practice.

From their diverse positions—artistic, aesthetic, theoretical, practical, institutional or independent—they have spent the last twenty years or so working to define their practice at the intersection of collective dynamics and individual commitments.

The Paris African Book Fair is an event dedicated to African and Afro-descendant literature in Europe and will welcome nearly 150 publishers and 400 authors from Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean to Paris. Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions will be taking part with a stand showcasing its publications.

Presentation of the African Fine Book Award

Viktoriia Oreshko, a painter who graduated in 2025 with honours, is the winner of the 7th edition of the Sisley x Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Young Artists.

This prize, co-created by Sisley and Beaux-Arts de Paris, aims to promote emerging talent. To support the artist in her future projects and the launch of her career, Sisley is awarding her a grant and dedicating an exhibition to her next June at its Paris headquarters as part of its Trois Cinq Friedland cultural programme.

Signing event for the launch of the book Claude Rutault, La Marelle, entre la toile de la même couleur que le mur et la marelle.

Texts compiled and prefaced by Blandine Chavanne.

Thirty secondary school pupils from around twenty schools across the country were selected to take part in this programme, created in 2007 by the Culture & Diversity Foundation to help them prepare for entrance exams to art and design schools.

During this first week-long course at the School, the artistic practice workshops invited participants to develop a piece based on a work from Beaux-Arts de Paris collections. Each studio head involved developed a specific proposal related to this work, combining an original approach with reflections informed by art history.

On Friday, 20 February 2026, Beaux-Arts de Paris hosted an inter-school professional day, organised in partnership with École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL and École nationale supérieure d'art de Paris-Cergy, aimed at young graduates.

Designed as an opportunity for discussion and networking, the aim of the day was to support the transition from school to the professional world by offering practical tools and opportunities for dialogue on contemporary artistic practices.

These stories cannot be written down
Guided walk led by Armel Cotinat-Flynn and Jeyni Ba.
Starting in the lobby of the Palais des Beaux-Arts.

See with your mind as well as with your eyes

The career of feminist theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey has contributed to profoundly transforming our relationship with images. Since the 1970s, the theorist of the "male gaze" has continued to work on behalf of a mobilised gaze, conscious of the asymmetries between genders, asymmetries that structure the history of images, their reception and the ways in which they are produced.

Metahaven’s work between design, filmmaking, textile, installation, and writing has been thoroughly linked with the internet and its geopolitics, pairing research with experimental, exuberant aesthetics.

On 11 March 2011, Japan was shaken by the Fukushima disaster of unprecedented magnitude. What have we learned from this inextricably natural and nuclear disaster?

To discuss its echoes and resonances beyond Japan and "from our window", philosopher Clélia Zernik, curator Élodie Royer, researcher in film theory and aesthetics Élise Domenach, and writer Michaël Ferrier, who share a deep knowledge of the Japanese art scenes with which they maintain a long-standing dialogue, look back on this event and the upheavals it has caused.