Paul Thek (1933-1988), one of the most singular American artists of the second half of the 20th century, always refused to belong to mainstream art. 
During the 1960s, his work developed on the fringes of Pop art and minimal art, taking the body as its subject in its most carnal representation. 
A free-spirited, well-travelled artist, he spent fifteen years travelling around Europe and living in Italy, where his art and culture profoundly influenced some of his work. 

"The end of the world is a concept without a future".

Paul Virilio, the great architect and philosopher who died in 2018, was the originator of dromology, the study of the role played by speed in modern societies. To mark the publication of 22 of his essays (published by Seuil), his daughter Sophie Virilio, architect Jean Richer, publisher Maria Vlachou and art historian Christian Joschke discuss accelerationist thinking.

The École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais and the École des Beaux-arts de Paris invite Chris Dercon, Managing Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, in connection with the "L'entour" course. The conference will be moderated by Yann Rocher (Paris-Malaquais) and Alain Berland (Beaux-arts).

Artist Frank Perrin presents 7 of his films from the series Klash! L'art en acte, which reveals the secret history of independent, radical and wild artistic acts, in dialogue with our current social issues. Revealing a different kind of Art History, this collection of twenty three-minute films, broadcast on Arte, introduces us to contemporary art in a new light of uncompromising commitment.

The films presented:

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Sociological approaches to arts education

Speakers: Guillaume Fournier (Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés) and Frédérique Joly (École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille).

On the occasion of the publication of Suffragettes de l'art, author Anaïd Demir talks to Pascale Le Thorel, director of Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, about the stages in women's conquest of the École and their struggle to assert their rights and existence in the artistic field. The interview will be conducted by Alain Berland. Special guests will be artists and teachers Valérie Sonnier, Nathalie Talec and Tatiana Trouvé. 

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Clicking on the archive - digital technology and the preservation of artistic practices

What happens when the archive becomes accessible at the click of a button on our computers?

Long associated with time and history, the notion of the archive has undergone major changes over the last forty years. It now also applies to the storage of digital data.

Art historian, author and curator Marie de Brugerolle questions the impact and legacy of performativity on the visual arts, and looks back at Post Performance Future, a pioneering travelling artistic research project she directed from 2012 to 2022.

Her book Post Performance Future. Method/e, published in September 2023, retraces 10 years of research based on the interweaving of performative experiences and practices with several generations of students and artists including Andrea Fraser, Agnieszka Kurant, Cally Spooner, Julien Bismuth and Jimmy Robert.

In June 2023, three naturalists, Grégoire Loïs, Elodie Renouard and Maxime Zucca, undertook a naturalistic study of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. They investigated those who cohabit with us on a daily basis, often invisibly: plants, birds, insects, bats, small mammals...