BORN IN THE STREETS: GRAFFITI, Leanne Sacramone, Senior Curator, Fondation Cartier

17 April 2025 | 19:00 – 22:00

Location: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

In 2009, the Fondation Cartier opened its entire gallery space, as well as the building’s façade and surrounding garden, for an exhibition entitled “Born in the Streets:  Grafitti.” Leanne Sacamone curated the show, which featured the history of graffi and put the art form — born in the 1970s on the streets of New York — on the art scene in Paris. Senior Curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Sacramone has collaborated with painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, comic strip artists, and public intellecutals in curating some 20 exhibitions, including major shows on Latin American photography (“America Latina,” 2013) and on the art of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Beauté Congo-Congo Kitoko,” 2016). In conversation with Margery Arent Safir, Sacramone will talk about graffiti artists as well as where graffiti has gone since that 2009 groundbreaking exhibit and what is its place today, if any, in the establishement world of public art or simply art. A coupe de champagne will follow.

Reservations are required.