"The Next 25 Years: Propositions for the Future of Curatorial Education" is the third in a series of recent symposia aiming to gauge the status and prospects for curatorial programs internationally. Estelle Nabeyrat, from L'Ecole du Magasin (Grenoble) will be presenting the French school's perspectives on the subject.

French academic Jean-Pierre Montier (Université de Rennes) will intervene at the France-Berkeley Fund symposium : "Photo-Literature".

French academic and author Annie Cohen-Solal presents "Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel", detailed portrait of Rothko the man and the artist.

The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary of bringing international and independent films to the East Bay. French films are part of the line-up this year!

Pacific Film Archive's year-long Jean-Luc Godard retrospective continues with some of the master’s more recent films, as well as two of his monumental rarely screened serial essays, France/tour/détour/deux/enfants and Histoire(s) du cinéma

The Pacific Film Archive presents "The Last of the Unjust", by Claude Lanzamann, as part of the Documentary Voices series.

This French co-productuion presents the story of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity, for the last 40 years. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus.

The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum presents a selection of French artists' masterpieces at the exhibition "Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland" showcased at the Legion of Honor.

The Cantor Art Center at Stanford University presents prints and drawings by French caricaturist Honoré Daumier, showcased in the exhibition "Daumier on Art and the Theatre".

Thrillpeddlers presents JEWELS OF PARIS, a performance inspired by the artistic revolution erupting in Paris nearly a century ago.

A new reading room and bookshop, Albertine Books in French and English, opened in September 2014 at the French Embassy in New York with 14,000 titles from 30 French-speaking countries. An accompanying online shop (albertine.com) has just launched and offers the most comprehensive selection of French-language books and English translations in the United States.

The Benjamin Franklin Travel Grant aims at giving students enrolled in an American University an opportunity to discover France. It is open to sophomore, junior & senior students who are enrolled in a double major including one major in French and one major in another discipline.

This new program was designed in response to the desire of French artists to be able to plan their residency in different places in the United States, depending on their project. Its objective is to promote professional integration of French artists in the American artistic community and to build collaboration projects that go beyond the residency program.

The website “frenchsculpture.org”, live since December 11, 2014, aims to present a free platform that records French sculptures in the United States. Available in French and in English, the platform targets professionals, researchers, historians, collectors, art dealers, and “all those who like French sculpture or want to discover it”.