In July 1977, in Kassel, as part of Documenta 6, Gina Pane presented a deeply moving performance: *A Hot Afternoon*. After the performance, Gina Pane recreated its sequence in a spectacular wall installation—preparatory drawings, photographs, handwritten texts—a true visual score that has just been added to the collections of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

This new Carnet d’Études provides an opportunity to revisit the career of a major figure in body art: Gina Pane (1939–1990), a pioneer of Body Art, a socially engaged artist, and a feminist.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition *Voies du dessin. From Architectural Sketches to Projects*, presented at the Galerie de l’Académie des beaux-arts, which commemorates the Louis Le Masson Prize for Architectural Drawing – awarded for the first time in 2025 to Frédéric Borel and Pierre Dufour.

A publication by the Académie des beaux-arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions, with the support of the Louis Le Masson and François Masson Foundation – Académie des beaux-arts.
 

Inspired by Joseph Rozé’s 2025 journey along the east coast of the United States, during which members of the public answered this simple question: ‘How do you imagine 2025?’, this artist’s book captures the pulse of an America on the brink of change…

Chourouk Hriech approaches drawing as a journey through space and time. In graphic worlds dominated by black and white, ranging in scale from the page to the wall, she blends different cities, contexts, histories and ruins of the past to create poetic cartographies that are both real and imaginary.

Drawing on a programme of in-depth visits to the Louvre Museum, the students of the Creuzet workshop have created a poetic, non-narrative object: Moon, Sun, Ishtar, once Sun, Star… 
A collective artist’s book comprising photomontages blending poems, original drawings and images directly inspired by the works discovered at the Louvre, revealing alternative ways of experiencing the museum...
 

A joint publication by Beaux-Arts de Paris and Louvre Museum.
Foreword by Éric de Chassey and Christophe Leribault, text by Donatien Grau, poetry by the Creuzet workshop.

In this book, with a foreword and edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, Annette Messager reveals the secrets of her creative process and her life. Featuring poems, previously unpublished studio notes, personal diaries, interviews, and texts on her works and exhibitions, *Et pourtant…* is a mapping of her oeuvre and an implicit portrait of one of the most important contemporary artists.
 

Anne Poirier, born in 1941 in Marseille, and Patrick Poirier, born in 1942 in Nantes, are one of the few artist couples to work together on joint projects. Since meeting in the late 1960s, Anne and Patrick Poirier have developed pioneering work on memory, the weight of the past in our cultures, and the way in which the humanities can convey a relationship with reality. During their four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome in the early 1970s, they developed a working method that has since become a model.
 

The book will be presented at Librairie Rupture as part of the 2026 Venice Biennale, with the opening on Friday 8 May.

Recipes from Beaux-Arts artists is a book of family recipes, inventions, concepts, aesthetics and poetry. It is a book of elaborate recipes and snacks. A book of travels and traditions, of childhood memories… It is an implicit portrait of those who penned its pages and created original works—paintings, drawings, sculptures, and writings—to accompany them.

Having taught at the Beaux-Arts for fifteen years, the painter Djamel Tatah has trained a generation of artists who today stand out for the unique power of their work and the success of their careers. Sixteen of them have been invited to take part in an exhibition at the MO.CO. in Montpellier. 
 

Since the 1950s, certain artists have chosen to become idle. Rejecting the frenzy of production, they have explored the virtues of withdrawal, slowing down and inaction, creating art in a different way.
Following on from the international symposium Désœuvrer / Un-work organised in 2021 by the École Normale Supérieure, the École du Louvre and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, this book examines the forms and challenges of this unique artistic attitude. 
 

Edited by Morgan Labar, Armance Léger and Killian Rauline.