The second annual From Dijon to Dallas exhibition, featuring two artists chosen through an exchange between the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Meadows School of the Arts and École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) of Dijon, France, is held at the Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas. The featured artists are Meadows alumni Andrew Davis and Alice Bidault from Dijon.

Etant donnés, a program of the FACE foundation, seeks to embrace new practices and enable different approaches to creation in contemporary art, understood in its broadest sense to include projects that draw on the visual arts, design, architecture or performance. Etant donnés will support ambitious projects, with high priority given to coproductions, new commissions, as well as projects that can be developed across several cities in the U.S. The program will also fund a new curatorial fellowship to accompany American curators, either independent or affiliated with institutions, who wish to conduct research in France.

The McClain Gallery presents Imagining Backwards: Seven Decades of Picasso Master Prints, an exhibition of more than 50 works that provides a succinct overview of Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The artwork dates from 1905 to 1970, with an emphasis on the 1920’s and 1930’s, and in particular the iconic Vollard Suite (1930 – 1937).

Settling in Paris in 1904, Picasso established himself as a prominent participant in avant-garde circles of that city, absorbing, transforming, and originating some of the most influential ideas of his time. By focusing on his use of line, the exhibition presented by the Menil Collection conveys Picasso’s attempts to resolve the three dimensions of form through linear means, thus relinquishing perspective.

Galerie Frank Elbaz is pleased to announce the opening of its temporary space in Dallas, on 136 Glass St. right across from Dallas Contemporary, from September to December 2016. It will open with an introductory show featuring artists Davide Balula, Sheila Hicks, Kaz Oshiro, Bernard Piffaretti, Mungo Thomson and Blair Thurman

The Cité internationale des arts program is open to foreign creators who wish to pursue a research project in Paris during a minimum period of three consecutive months. 24 studio/apartments are available for foreign artists, all artistic domains included. The immersion in this institution in the heart of Paris allow them to fully dedicate themselves to their creativity and to extend their search outside from what they are used to experiment.

The Museum of Geometric and Madi art brings together over 25 works by French color field painter Mokha Laget spanning the last 4 years. The exhibit features her unique shaped canvases using clay pigment paint, as well as a series of lithographs created in collaboration with Landfall Press in Santa Fe, NM.

Ananda Devi is a novelist and scholar born in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius in 1957. Devi has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry, and was featured at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York in 2015. Her latest novel Eve out of her ruins is published by Deep Vellum in Dallas, TX. She will be speaking in:
• Austin, September 26
• Houston, September 27
• Dallas - Fort Worth, September 28 & 29

Presented by the school of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at the University of Texas at Dallas and Light Cone at the Nasher Sculpture Center with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston, Ultra-seeing is a series of monthly screenings exploring experimental cinema from the perspective of synesthesia, visual music, and visualization of music. Each hour-long session brings together major works from the rich collection of Light Cone, a French organization dedicated to the diffusion and conservation of experimental cinema, and contemporary productions from local and international artists.

Ars Lyrica Houston presents Charpentier’s witty chamber opera Les Plaisirs de Versailles, an ode to wine and chocolate!

Anoraak has been around since 2008 with his underground classic Nightdrive With You. 2 albums and countless remixes later (We Have Band, Neon Indian, Mika, College, Metronomy and more), he has made quite a name for himself in the synth-pop, italo and indie-dance genres.

Gojira, a progressive metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France, has released five studio albums, one live album, one single, and two DVDs.

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, has been steadily working to perfect the art of the megalithic alt.pop song since founding M83 in 2001. Among other performances, M83 is featured at the 2016 Austin City Limits!