Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
March 2, 2024–July 20, 2024
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Past Programs
Discussion and Exhibition Walkthrough (In-Person)
Americans in Paris: Al Held and Galerie 8
Join Debra Bricker Balken, guest curator of Americans in Paris, and Daniel Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation, for a discussion and exhibition walkthrough highlighting Held’s gestural painting in postwar Paris and the bustling circle of American expat artists who exhibited at the cooperatively run Galerie Huit (1950–1956). Visitor Access and Registration This […]
Film Screening (In-Person)
Americans in Paris at Anthology Film Archives: Shinkichi Tajiri
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development. The fourth and final program shines a spotlight on artist Shinkichi Tajiri, who is best known for […]
Exhibition Walkthrough (In-Person)
JaBrea Patterson-West, Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Grey Art Museum and Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, will give a guided walkthrough of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962. Visitor Access This event is at capacity—registration is now closed. NYU’s Grey Art Museum provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests […]
Film Screening (In-Person)
Americans in Paris Program Three: William Klein
Anthology Film Archives
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development. The third program focuses on painter, filmmaker, and acclaimed fashion photographer, William Klein, who relocated permanently to […]
Roundtable Discussion (In-Person & Zoom)
Black Abstraction | Black Existentialism
Though many Black artists who spent time in France experimented with abstract modes of production—thus impacting the trajectory of modernist abstraction—their efforts are often eclipsed by the constraining discourses around Abstract Expressionism and Civil Rights-era protest art. This roundtable will think through and beyond modernist aesthetics, constructions of Blackness, and geopolitical relations to probe the use of abstraction as a tool of subjective expression, radical politics, or opacity […]
April In Paris
Student Night at NYU’s Grey Art Museum
Enjoy a night with art, live jazz, treats and more for university students only. Come dressed up and ready for photos! Sign up here to attend. Please bring your Student ID. Organized by the Grey’s Student Friends Committee. Co-sponsored by the Center for Ballet and the Arts, NYU and the Department of Music and Performing […]
Film Screening (In-Person)
Americans in Paris at Anthology Film Archives:
Robert Breer, Kenneth Anger, and Carmen D’Avino
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development. This program brings together work by Robert Breer and Kenneth Anger, two artists whose place in the […]
Conversation (In-Person)
The Stone Face: Black American Expats in Mid-Century Paris
Join acclaimed writer, Adam Shatz, for a conversation with Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Museum, that centers on American expat novelist William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face (1963) at La Maison Française at NYU. Reprinted in 2021, Smith’s work exposes the complexity of postwar Paris as both a haven for Black Americans fleeing […]
Film Screening (In-Person)
Americans in Paris at Anthology Film Archives: Melvin Van Peebles
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development. The first program presents two works by trailblazing filmmaker and writer Melvin Van Peebles, […]
Film Screening (In-Person)
Americans in Paris at Anthology Film Archives: Melvin Van Peebles
As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development. The first program presents two works by trailblazing filmmaker and writer Melvin Van Peebles, […]
Panel Discussion (In-Person)
Painting’s Banlieue: Expat Intermedia Arts in Paris
Americans in Paris highlights the vibrant expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II, examining how the French capital fostered artistic freedom and experimentation in a way that New York could not. This panel takes up the exhibition’s offer to rethink our understanding of postwar American art in light of its Parisian influences—speakers will […]
Artist Talk and Conversation (In-Person)
The Threads of Architecture: Artist Sheila Hicks with Architect Frida Escobedo
Join our friends at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate International Women’s Day with fiber arts pioneer Sheila Hicks and architect Frida Escobedo. Works by Hicks are featured in both the Met’s exhibition, Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, and the Grey’s exhibition, Americans in Paris—the latter show includes works that are on […]
Americans In Paris Curator Tour (In-Person)
Join Guest Curator Debra Bricker Balken and Co-curator Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Museum, for a tour of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962.
Americans In Paris Curator Tour (In-Person)
Join Guest Curator Debra Bricker Balken and Co-curator Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Museum, for a tour of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962.
Opening Reception for Americans In Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Grey Art Museum and inaugural exhibition Americans In Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962. Friday, March 1, 5:00–8:00 pm Grey Art Museum, NYU · 18 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 Exhibition on view March 2–July 20, 2024 Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, […]
Ellison, Ellington, Jazz & Swing (In-Person)
The NYU All-University Jazz Orchestra will play selected songs in honor of the enduring friendship between award-winning author, Professor Ralph Ellison, and the iconic Duke Ellington. Bring your love of jazz and your dancing shoes. For all ages!
Conversation and Book Event (In-Person)
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
Hosted by Rizzoli Bookstore
On March 2, at 6 pm, join Lynn Gumpert, director of New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, and Debra Bricker Balken, independent curator, at Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation about Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962.
Conversation (In-Person)
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
Hosted by Albertine Bookstore
On October 4, at 6 pm, join Lynn Gumpert, director of New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, and Debra Bricker Balken, independent curator, for a conversation about Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 which has just been released by Hirmer Verlag and Grey Art Gallery, NYU. Long renowned as an artistic mecca, Paris renewed its allure as a leading cultural capital following the end of World War II by attracting a new wave of expatriates from the U.S. In-person only.