The Parrish Art Museum will exhibit a permanent collection installation of the photography of Jean-Luc Mylayne, now through October 30, 2016.

Cirque du Soleil, the Quebec-based entertainment company, has made its Broadway debut with a new production, Paramour, directed by French stage director and choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

Bayadères for Two Skywalks by Daniel Buren organized by the Hunter College Art Galleries and is on view until September 2016. This installation, spanning the 3rd and 7th floor skyways, is a series of brightly colored translucent stripes that invite the viewer to peer at the city through different lenses.

From April 29 to October 5, 2016, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present 'But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa'.

Chamber New York presents Collection #2 "Human | Nature", curated by Andrew Zuckerman through October 6, 2016, features artists as Marlène Huissoud and Yann Vasnier.

Public, Private, Secret is the premiere exhibition at the new ICP Museum, located at 250 Bowery, opening June 23.

Major patrons of Henri Matisse, Claribel and Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, bequeathed sixty-nine prints and six bronze sculptures by Matisse to the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s budding collection. This exhibition will be on display from June 25 to October 16, 2016.

Demisch Danant's new gallery in New York City will open to the public on September 17, 2016, with the inaugural exhibition made in France. The show will present a selection of more than two dozen rare and important objects that together trace the parallel and often intertwined narratives of French design of the 1960s and 1970s...

Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France will be on view at The Frick beginning July 12.

The National Gallery of Art presents Hubert Robert, 1733–1808, an exhibition organized with the Musée du Louvre in Paris that celebrates the prominent French painter and draftsman.

The Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach presents a piece from the Brooklyn-based artist Mark Fox entitled “Giverny : Journal of an Unseen Garden”. This video installation is the result of the artist’s stay at the Monet Foundation in Giverny in 2010 and pays homage to Monet’s practice of studying the effects of temporal shifts of light on a single subject.

From September 21st, 2016 | Exhibition Opening | Los Angeles Please Do Not Enter proudly presents 'Eat The River' by French artist Frederick Gautier! There will be 100 unique objects inspired by the Los Angeles River. This is a two-month long site-specific intervention into the LA River's history and landscape.

On the occasion of the newly expanded Cafe 3, the Guggenheim presents an installation by Julien Bismuth, a contemporary artist whose conceptual works address issues of cross-cultural communication and explore the relationship between writing and image making.

October 11, 2016 - January 22, 2017 | Los Angeles UNCERTAINTY is a science-meets-art exhibit that will include work by nine artists, including French visual artist Marc Fichou. The artworks all have an element of mystery, and symbolize the human search for knowledge. You may remember Marc Fichou from his recent exhibit 'Outside-In.' Check out this cool event!

September 16 - December 10, 2016 | Los Angeles. As a result of Myriam Ben Salah’s residency at Fahrenheit, the exhibition 'We Dance, We Smoke, We Kiss' aims to foster an alternative way of looking at art and culture from the Middle East and neighboring countries. Featuring works from various artists through different types of narratives, it goes beyond the established 'East-West' binary and questions stereotypes in a post 9/11 context.

Various Times | Various Locations There are many French artists performing in July...from Madeon to Tchami to Benjamin Clementine, there will be music of all genres! Check out our list of upcoming concerts to find one near you.

October 22-23, 2016 | All Day Event | Los Angeles The Growlers have announced the fifth annual Beach Goth festival, which is moving locations to Oak Canyon Park on Lake Irvine in Silverado, CA. French artists Justice, La Femme, and Sebastian will perform. The festival will take place on 10/23-24.

a Handful of Dust is David Campany's speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its most unlikely imagery.

Alison Knowles's computerized poem of 1967, House of Dust, and her subsequent built structures of the same name are the focus of this presentation. Her prescient yet under-recognized project has been an inspiration for contemporary artists' and architects' responsive artworks and spatial interpretations included in the exhibition along with documentation of Knowles's poem and built structures, discussions, publications, and performances.

Peak Performances in Montclair presents the U.S. premiere.Forgotten/L'Oublié(e) by Raphaëlle Boitel from September 29 to October 2nd.

Thirty years after his legendary sunset-to-sunrise production of The Mahabharata consecrated the BAM Harvey stage, director Peter Brook returns with Battlefield, a breathtaking distillation of the central story in the ancient Sanskrit poem.

August 30th - November 27th, 2016 | Ongoing Event | Los Angeles Organized around the Getty Museum’s holdings and supplemented with important international loans, this exhibition highlights the work of four photographers who were integral to the development of paper photography: Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, and Charles Nègre. Free admission!

Through Knowledge to Justice: The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935)

From August 13, 2016 to January 29, 2017, the Wolfsonian-FIU presents exhibition "Visionary Metropolis: Tony Garnier’s Une Cité Industrielle" showcasing the French prominent architect’s view of an ideal modern city.

September 11, 2016 – May 28, 2017 | Denver, Colorado Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design, 1980s–90s, shows work by Japanese designers who started a fashion revolution in Paris. The exhibition features 70 looks by powerhouse designers Issey Miyake, Kenzo Takada, Kansai Yamamoto, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, and Junya Watanabe, whose impact on fashion still resonates today.

Ongoing Event | Los Angeles, CA & Denver, CO Book lovers will get their reading lists ready! Independent libraries across the United States and more specifically in Los Angeles (Book Soup) and Denver (Tattered Cover Book Store) will soon be providing curated "French Corners", designed to bring you the best of French and Francophone literature!

October 3-4, 2016 | 7:00 PM | Los Angeles Parisian singer Jain will be performing live at School Night and Hotel Café in Los Angeles this October! Performing pop music with Arabic and African influences, Jain is a talented up and coming artist. This is sure to be a great event!

Eric Rohmers Moral Tales, September 16-29. All six films will be screened in new restorations, highlighted by two adjacent weeklong revivals of "La collectionneuse" and "Love in the Afternoon".

October 21, 2016 - March 3, 2017 | Various Times | Arizona and California Born in Toulouse, France, Thibaut Garcia is an excellent guitarist who is on tour in the United States after his first prize win of the 2015 Guitar Foundation of America contest. He will be performing in Arizona and California. Book your tickets today!

Camille Blatrix’s objects are bittersweet—they are impeccably fabricated but fraught with emotional entanglement. The surfaces are scrutinized, the edges are caressed, each detail is perfected, and yet the metaphors remain abstract and the origin stories never clear. The Wattis Institute in San Francisco presents "Heroe", an exhibition on show from September 8th, 2016 to November 19th, 2016.

September 18 - November 12, 2016 | Ongoing Event | Pasadena, CA A Noise Within, the acclaimed classical repertory theatre, presents the second production of their 25th Anniversary Season, The Maids, by French dramatist Jean Genet. Get your tickets to see this great performance today!

The fifth edition of Seuls en Scène – Princeton University's French Theater Festival will run from September 22 to October 6, 2016, in partnership with Princeton University-Lewis Center for the Arts and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. As in previous years, the festival will offer up a diverse and rich season of contemporary French theater.

Breakdance world champion Anne Nguyen has spent the past decade bringing the art of hip-hop and dance battle from the street to the stage. Throwing abstracted choreography into collision with geometry, architecture, and human experience, she celebrates hip-hop dancers’ technical and expressive prowess. A rising star in France, Nguyen makes her U.S. debut at Crossing the Line with two works.

For two decades Rachid Ouramdane has been at the forefront of European dance, blurring the line between performer and choreographer, dance and documentary. Ouramdane is the founder of Company L’A and now, co-director of the National Choreographic Center of Grenoble.

Since the mid-90s, Jérôme Bel has been exploring the relationship between choreography and popular culture, between dancer and spectator, often using humor as a device to break the formality of a theatre setting. Crossing the Line 2016 will feature a focus on French choreographer Jérôme Bel, with presentations of some of his major performances and new work.

As part of the Brooklyn/Paris Exchange and Tandem Paris-New York, BAM and Théâtre de la Ville (France) present the U.S. premiere of Minuit, by French director Yoann Bourgeois, from Oct 5 - 8, 2016.

This September and October, revel in the heady experience of being a girl on the verge of adulthood. From the New Wave to present day, this series puts a spotlight on young women who take charge of their destinies.

'No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki' is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States. Drawing together key works from public and private collections in America, Europe, and Asia, this exhibition of Zao’s works illustrates the encounter between Asian aesthetics and international art movements that came to define postwar abstract painting.

Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe features 40 extraordinary fashions and accessories from the fabulous wardrobe of Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, the Countess Greffulhe (1860-1952), one of the primary inspirations for Proust's immortal fictional character, Oriane, the Duchess de Guermantes.

This exhibition is the first museum retrospective of Dubuffet’s drawings. It includes about one hundred works from his most innovative years—between 1935 and 1962—borrowed from private and public collections in France and the United States.

Not since 1973, when an exhibition of the French followers of Caravaggio was held at the French Academy in Rome and at the Grand Palais in Paris, has there been an attempt to bring the achievements of this extraordinary painter before a large public. Therefore, this exhibition will be a landmark event not only for scholars and students, but also for art lovers, who will discover one of the giants of French painting.

The 13th annual Fall for Dance Festival will feature Kader Attou's Opus 14 performed by 16 incredibly gifted hip-hop dancers.

Hailed by The New York Times as a "virtuoso of the quarter-tone trumpet," Ibrahim Maalouf combines jazz improvisation and European classical influences with the sounds of his native Lebanon and home in France, a far-reaching blend of cultures. Tonight's concert features a stellar ensemble of Frank Woeste, Scott Colley, Rick Margitza​, and Clarence Penn. They will pay homage to one of the greatest Arabic divas of all time – Egyptian icon Oum Kalthoum – with a sprawling, one-of-a-kind interpretation of her most beloved hit: "Alf Leila wa Leila." Maalouf explains, "This piece is one of the all-time classics that is celebrated across the Arab world, and yet it remains virtually unknown in the rest of the world, so this is an opportunity for me to present this symphonic masterpiece." Maalouf is an inspirational cross-cultural visionary, and Kalthoum – to be performed in its entirety – is a gripping synthesis of powerful musical traditions. Free pre-concert discussions nightly, 6pm and 8:30pm.

September 13 - November 6, 2016 | Los Angeles, CA 'DISSENT: What they fear is the light' is a group exhibition that explores the changing understanding of privacy and control in a world inundated with surveillance and oversharing. DISSENT features work from French artist Christine Rebet.

A SIFF mini-festival showcasing new Francophone cinema

Ultra-seeing, presented by the school of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at the University of Texas at Dallas and Light Cone at the Nasher Sculpture Center with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston, is a monthly screenings series exploring experimental cinema from the perspective of synesthesia, visual music, and visualization of music.

In the exhibition Everyday Ogres, Mouraud presents a new work that expands her efforts to the Gulf Coast. Commissioned by the Visual Arts Center with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston, Mouraud traveled to Texas in June 2016 to film oil refineries along the Houston Ship Channel: sites that represent the dangerous monumentality and surreal everydayness surrounding energy use and production in the United States. Filmed at night, the installation captures a haunting vision of metal cities filled with toxic smoke and threatening power.

September 16 - October 29, 2016 | François Ghebaly Gallery. For the second time, French artist Davide Balula creates a solo exhibition at Ghebaly Gallery. The opening will feature a unique performance and is open to the public. Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Galerie Frank Elbaz is pleased to announce the opening of its temporary space in Dallas, on 136 Glass St. right across from Dallas Contemporary, from September to December 2016. It will open with an introductory show featuring artists Davide Balula, Sheila Hicks, Kaz Oshiro, Bernard Piffaretti, Mungo Thomson and Blair Thurman.

Exhibition of Participatory Works by 42 Contemporary Artists Opens September 16, 2016 at the Jewish Museum.

This exhibition will celebrate the artist’s achievements as a master draftsman. A similar brio and inventiveness mark the artist’s etchings, and examples of these will also be featured. Among the 100 works on paper on view, nearly half are from private collections, some of which will be shown publicly for the first time. The exhibition will thus provide a rare opportunity to see well-loved masterpieces alongside new discoveries and works that have long been out of the public eye.

For its NY premiere, Company Wang Ramirez present Monchichi on Oct 12 - 15, 2016 at BAM. The performances are part of the Brooklyn/Paris Exchange and Tandem Paris-New York, presented by BAM and Théâtre de la Ville (France).

This exhibition brings together a community of participants from three countries who have made new works based on Scarlet Street, one of the most peculiar examples of American film noir cinema.

The world today counts more displaced people than at any time since 1945, and Europe is facing the most significant arrival of migrants in the postwar period. Though politicians and the mass media often depict this phenomenon as a threat, filmmakers have created important works that propose alternative perspectives. This special series presents screenings of ten recent films followed by in-depth discussions with the filmmakers and academic specialists in disciplines ranging from philosophy and history to film studies, sociology and legal studies. Ten films offering new perspectives on the migrant crisis in Europe, curated by Nora Philippe and presented by the Columbia Maison Française.

Theodore:Art presents 'Deux Côtés', the first of a two-part exhibition presented in collaboration with Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris. The second part will take place at Galerie Jean Fournier in December 2016.

How Should We Live? explores the complex collaborations, materials, and processes that have shaped the modernist interior, with a focus on specific environments—domestic interiors, re-created exhibition displays, and retail spaces—from the 1920s to the 1950s.

This series encompasses more than twenty works by women who succeeded in directing their own films in the decades before 1950. Including rare archival and imported prints, spotlights on early filmmakers such as Gene Gauntier, Alice Guy-Blaché, Germaine Dulac, and others, and the premiere of a new restoration of Lois Weber’s SHOES (screening for the first time in the modern era with the original American intertitles), this series is not to be missed.

Since 1963, the New York Film Festival has brought new and important cinematic works from around the world to Lincoln Center. In addition to the Main Slate official selections, the festival includes newly restored classics, special events, filmmaker talks, panel discussions, an Avant-Garde showcase, and much more. The New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.

Created by François Le Gall and Nicolas Blies, this multifaceted project does more than make music from the audio of everyday life; each uploaded sound is a window onto its author’s world, and every song created by the Sound Hunter community is as much a remix of distinctive life experiences as of unique audio elements.

October 5, 2016 | 7:30 PM Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, the innovative performance space at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles, is proud to present two astonishing dance companies: one from Los Angeles and one from Paris!

The Cultural services of the French Embassy is pleased to announce the exhibition Live and Life Will Give You Pictures: Masterworks of French Photography, 1890 – 1950 at the Barnes Foundation.