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  • June 2025

  • Tue 3

    Americans in Paris with Debra Bricker Balken and Éric de Chassey

    Tue 3 June 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    How Paris shaped a generation of American artists after World War II.

  • Tue 17

    Adventures in the Louvre with Elaine Sciolino

    Tue 17 June 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Fall in love with the world's most famous museum through the eyes of bestselling author Elaine Sciolino.

  • September 2025

  • Wed 10

    The Art of Seeing with Thomas Schlesser and Alexandra Suich Bass

    Wed 10 September 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Join us for a conversation on Schlesser\'s international bestseller, Mona’s Eyes, a moving story about art, family, and seeing the world while you still can.

  • Wed 24

    Lessons in Looking with Lilly Dancyger

    Wed 24 September 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    An interactive lecture from Scholar of Note Lilly Dancyger on what writers can learn from visual art.

  • October 2025

  • Wed 15

    Berthe Weill and the Parisian Avant-Garde with Curators Lynn Gumpert and Sophie Eloy

    Wed 15 October 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Explore the legacy of a pioneering art dealer who shaped modern art, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the Musée de l’Orangerie’s current exhibition with their curators.

  • Tue 28

    Art Without Borders with novelist R. O. Kwon and artist Chloé Quenum

    Tue 28 October 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Join novelist R. O. Kwon and visual artist Chloé Quenum for a cross-disciplinary, bilingual conversation on the tangled questions of ownership and origin in art.

  • November 2025

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    John Singer Sargent and Henry James: Painting and Prose in a Gilded Age

    Tue 4 November 2025 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Jean Strouse and Madeleine Schwartz explore the art, literature, and an iconic friendship that defined a Gilded Age—and what it reveals about today.

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    An Evening with Cultural Fellow Molly Ringwald

    Tue 18 November 2025 @ 19 h 00 min - 20 h 00 min
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    The celebrated actress, author, and translator reflects on her art and life.

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    Between Paint and Print with Rachel Cusk and Megan Rooney

    Tue January 20 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    A multi-disciplinary conversation on how work takes shape on the page and on the canvas.

  • Tue 27

    Matisse in Morocco with Jeff Koehler

    Tue January 27 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    How Tangier transformed one of modern art’s greatest painters.

  • February 2026

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    Behind the Scenes of the Notre-Dame Restoration with Hank Silver

    Tue February 3 @ 19 h 30 min - 20 h 30 min
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    Discover how a forest of oak in Normandy became the rebuilt medieval roof of Notre-Dame.

  • Thu 12

    BBC World Book Club Live Recording with Laurent Binet

    Thu February 12 @ 18 h 30 min - 21 h 00 min
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    Join us for a special live recording of the BBC World Book Club featuring novelist Laurent Binet in conversation about his groundbreaking novel HHhH.

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