Innovative Impressions explores an under-studied aspect of three Impressionists’ careers: their groundbreaking prints and the techniques they developed through collaboration and experimentation. The exhibition, on view at the Philbrook Museum of Art, features works by French artists Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro.

Screening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston of “Cézanne: Portraits of a Life” from the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The film features interviews with curators and experts involved in the 2017 and 2018 exhibition dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cézanne. The exhibition opened in Paris before traveling to London and concluding in Washington, DC.

Screening of 2017 French film Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur), directed by Claire Denis and starring Juliette Binoche, at Santikos Bijou (San Antonio, TX), The Modern (Fort Worth, TX) and Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK).

Screening of the 1959 film Dangerous Liaisons (Les liaisons dangereuses), directed by Roger Vadim and starring French actors Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Phillipe, and Annette Vadim. In the framework of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jazz on Film series.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston film curator Marian Luntz returns from her annual trip to France to give a behind-the scenes debrief of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. To be held at the Alliance Française of Houston. Free and open to the public.

Join us via Livestream for a festive award ceremony and drink to celebrate the winner of the second annual Albertine Prize, to be revealed during the event!

The Consulate General of France in Houston, along with the French associations, will be hosting a Bastille Day celebration this year at the Houston Polo Club. Event open to the public.

As we get closer to July 14, check out the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston and the French Consulate in Houston Facebook pages for more information on the upcoming events celebrating the French National Day in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas!