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This autumn, there's no need to choose between art, games and discovery: the Grand Palais brings it all together in one place. So get your curious, dreamy, playful selves ready... and set a course for a great family vacation in the heart of Paris! Here's a sneak preview of what's in store.

L'Histoire commence avec l'écriture.

On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais until June 21, 2026, Alice Leroy, teacher-researcher and film critic, offers a series of texts exploring her work through the prism of cinema.Today, she reflects on Nan Goldin’s love of cinema, from her discoveries of underground film to the Hollywood figures, and shows how this eclectic love of film forms an intimate history of cinema that deeply informs her work. 

On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais until June 21, 2026, Alice Leroy, teacher-researcher and film critic, offers a series of texts exploring her work through the prism of cinema. This text focuses on the way her slideshows reinvent montage as an open form, between memory, music and moving images.

On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais until June 21, 2026, Alice Leroy, lecturer, researcher and film critic, offers a series of texts exploring her work through the lens of cinema. HHere, she looks back at the connections between Nan Goldin and the New York underground cinema of the 1980s, through several collaborations and figures from the No Wave scene.

On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais until June 21, 2026, Alice Leroy, lecturer, researcher and film critic, offers a series of texts exploring her work through the lens of cinema. Between slideshows and installations, a form of writing emerges that engages with memory and desire. Here, she reflects onThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency and the slideshow as a collective form.

Mickalene Thomas celebrates Black women through intimate, sensual and powerful portraits. In large-scale works, her friends, lovers and icons become both muses and the protagonists of their own image.

This autumn, there's no need to choose between art, science and discovery: the Grand Palais brings them all together for you. So get your curious, your dreamers, your players ready... and discover the program for the coming weeks!

Mickalene Thomas's exhibition All About Love celebrates the intimacy, sensuality and power of Black women. It owes its title to bell hooks' book,All About Love: New Visions (1999), which presents love as a force for transformation and empowerment.