book launch
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West is the Best — Toward the Ocean
Galerie Kann Design 30 rue des Trois Bornes, Paris, FranceBooks sometimes become maps, tracing not only places, but ways of living and creating. West is the Best follows this idea through a decade of travels along the coasts of California, Mexico, and France, where the ocean becomes both landscape and point of connection. Published by Room Number Editions, the book brings together encounters with […]
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Affichage Libre — Beneath the Walls
Walls are constantly speaking, layered with advertisements, announcements, fragments, and disappearances. With Affichage Libre, Joachim Romain transforms these urban surfaces into a field of experimentation, revealing unexpected forms hidden beneath the city’s visual noise. Working directly on posters found in public space, the artist tears, peels, and reshapes paper into temporary sculptural compositions. Photographed before […]
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Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDuring lockdown, Tilt — the Toulouse graffiti artist known worldwide for his work — set himself one rule: a throw-up a day. More than 700 appeared across his city, only to vanish soon after under layers of buff paint. Never Ending Story grew out of that obsessive, ephemeral practice — a deep dive into the […]
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Métamorphe — From Blackletter to Cholo
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceGothic script was never meant to travel. It was built for Northern European scribes, carried to Spain, then loaded onto ships — and once it reached Mesoamerica it stopped behaving like a European alphabet. Blackletter absorbed whatever it landed in: colonial signage, devotional imagery, tattoo culture, the walls of Mexico City and the barrios of […]
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La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLa Chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, houses, landscapes, and the very places tourism turns into scenery. Dorian André spent seven months between Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua photographing exactly that. A graphic […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]
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Du bitume au sacré — Still Under Construction
Le Consulat Voltaire 114 Avenue Parmentier, Paris, FranceBefore Homecore, there was a kid from the banlieue raised the hard way, with street culture as a first language. That kid was Alexandre Guarneri. Thirty years after founding one of French hip-hop's defining labels, he has gone back through his own story to ask how you take apart what you were taught in order […]
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Capuzzelle — Naming the Anonymous Dead
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceCapuzzelle are the anonymous skulls of Naples: for centuries, in the ossuaries and cemeteries of the city, the living would adopt one, give it a name and pray for its soul, in the hope that the favour might be returned. Andrea d'Avossa spent 2025 walking the Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale on that principle, though what […]
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Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles — Street Penmanship, from Gangster Prints to Wickeds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FrancePhiladelphia has never had the mainstream aura of New York, and its writing has stayed largely off the record. Yet few cities have produced a scriptural texture of their own — a shared way of shaping letters that goes beyond the individual signature. Some local writers call this American metropolis "Whip City": in the sense […]
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Rideaux de Fer #2 — Paris shutters, special Lutes
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Friday, 16 October, Nespo is back at Le Grand Jeu to launch the second volume of Rideaux de Fer, his zine devoted entirely to the painted shutters of Paris. The idea hasn't changed since issue one. When a shop closes for the night, its shutter becomes a wall, and graffiti writers have been using […]
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Itinéraire bis — A Hong Kong journey by Yucka & Jean Moner
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 17 October, Yucka and Jean Moner come up from Nantes to present Itinéraire bis, a book of film photographs taken in Hong Kong in February 2025. Both come from the graffiti scene, and that background shows in how they look at the city: side streets, details, places away from the usual routes. The […]
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50/66 — Route 66, Film & the Art You’re Not Supposed to Find
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceRoute 66 turns one hundred this year, and most of what made it famous is gone. Motels boarded up, gas stations rusting where they stand, whole towns bypassed by the interstate and left to hold their shape without a function. It is a road that survives largely as an idea — which is exactly the […]