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Centre Pompidou
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

To support Paris Noir, an exhibition that brings together works of 150 artists who are Black and/or part of the African diaspora—from Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America—and who are still widely overlooked in France. The transdisciplinary artists featured in the exhibition work across painting, literature, music, dance, fashion, and cinema. A catalogue with substantial essays will highlight this historical survey and a conference, Paris Noir. From Présence Africaine to Revue Noire (1947–1991), will be offered.

Palais de Tokyo
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

The Palais de Tokyo, the largest European art center dedicated to contemporary creation, has invited Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum, to be guest artistic director for an American Season in fall 2025. The American Season exhibitions and programs provide opportunities for the Palais de Tokyo to continue its work with diverse groups of artists and audiences and to introduce U.S. contemporary art to French audiences.

Palais de Tokyo
$98,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French- language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
$33,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Musée du Louvre
$22,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Eaux Fortes
$25,000
Strasbourg, France
2024

On the occasion of the 15th Biennale des Arts de Dakar, themed “The Wake,” public programs  delve into global questions of environment, race, and healing, exploring themes such as artistic approaches to ecological repair and the role of memory across the Black Atlantic. Talks, performances, film screenings, tours, workshops, and dialogues featuring American artists and scholars link diasporas across the Atlantic and in the Caribbean, envisioned as a connected archipelago.