Co-organized by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, this international exhibition is dedicated to one of the founding members of the French Impressionist movement, Berthe Morisot (1841–95). Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist focuses on the artist’s treatment of the modern figure through approximately 70 paintings from public and private collections around the world. The exhibition will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art from February 24 to May 26. Don't miss the Opening Day Tour on February 24 at 3PM.

After the tremendous success of her first translated novel The Perfect Nanny (2018), the award-winning Franco-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani comes back to the U.S. to discuss her new fascinating novel Adèle, originally published by Gallimard in 2016 with the title Dans le jardin de l'ogre. She will be at Book People in Austin, TX on February 25.

Rice University Theatre Program will present “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin. This long running Off Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism.

French pianist and composer Emile Naoumoff will be at the Saint Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas, TX to perform a free recital on February 8, and to present a free Master Class on February 9 with select young pianists and a chamber music ensemble from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. His performance will feature music of Jean-Sébastien Bach, Maurice Ravel, Fauré, Lili Boulanger, and Nadia Boulanger. 

French producer Dombresky will be performing on February 16 at South Side Ballroom in Dallas, TX an on February 17 at Stereo Live in Houston, TX. Supported by artists like Diplo, DJ Snake and Anna Lunoe, he stands out as one of the new faces of the international scene.

Reel Forces, a music and film event presented by Musiqa, will include a 15-minute performance of Etude for 11 Faces, by French composer Florent Ghys.

Da Camera of Houston presents Tous les Matins du Monde; a performance by Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations at the Cullen Theater, inspired by the soundtrack music of the 1991 film, featuring works of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Couperin, Marin Marais, Sainte-Colombe, Rameau and Jean-Marie Leclair. The film, directed by Alain Corneau and starring Gérard Depardieu, shows the eminent musician, Marin Marais, looking back on his young life when he was a pupil of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe.

The 2019 Application Call for project to FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance) program is now open. American and French institutions can now apply for dance projects (residence, production and tour) taking place between June 1st, 2019, and August 31, 2020.

Created by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Fund supports cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and fosters forward-looking collaborative research that addresses the most pressing global challenges. Each selected French-American project will receive a grant of up to $20,000 over a period of two years, covering travel expenses between France and the US, accommodation costs and a part of the organizational costs of joint conferences, and of publication costs.

The world's first online French film festival, organized by UniFrance, offers to view some of the best films of the past year, among them the wonderful comedies Guy and Guaspard at the Wedding and the French thriller with Vincent Cassel and Romain Duris, Black Tide. Films can be accessed via the myFrenchFilmFestival.com platform in all countries.

In the framework of Black History Month, the 2016 documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, will be screened in Norman, OK on February 8 at West Wind UCC, in Oklahoma City on February 11 at Ralph Ellison Library, in Seguin, TX on February 13 at Texas Lutheran University and in Huntsville, TX on February 25 at Sam Houston State University.

Screening of 1975 French horror film La Bête at Austin Film Society. In this erotic fairy-tale from Immoral Tales director Walerian Borowcyck, a young woman, promised in marriage to a nobleman, is consumed by visions about a legendary—and legendarily insatiable—beast of prey on the family’s estate.

Screening at Austin Film Society of 2014 stylized documentary film The Ceremony which gives us a glimpse into the ceremonies and personal life of France's most famous dominatrix, Catherine Robbe-Grillet.