Le Grand Jeu
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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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French Rap Tees — The Wardrobe of a Culture
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 211 avenue Jean Jaurès — 75019 Paris — Porte de Pantin, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceBefore it hangs in a frame, a scene lives on cotton. Long before French rap reached the museum, it moved through the streets on the backs of those who built it — concert tees, promo shirts, bootlegs, worn until they became documents in their own right. French Rap Tees, the book by Driss Dendoune produced […]
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Silly Little Projects Vol. II — D.I.Y. Trying
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome objects are impossible to throw away and useless to keep. A ticket stub, a broken earring, a key to a door that no longer exists. That is where Alisa Cayoo starts. The Paris-based designer builds one-of-a-kind chains out of found and sentimental objects — the name comes from cailloux, the pebbles you pick up and […]
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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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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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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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Oreall Pop-Up — Bathroom Problems in Paris
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 3 October, Le Grand Jeu hands the shop over to the rapper Oreall for a one-day pop-up. It's his first time meeting his Paris audience in person, and the format is deliberately simple. Come by, talk, listen, and leave with a piece of the project. On the table: his CD Bathroom Problems, a […]
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One Love Books Paris Launch — Greensleeves, Clarks and Jamaica
Le Comptoir Général 84 Quai de Jemmapes, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 10 October, the London publisher One Love Books comes to Paris for an afternoon at Le Comptoir Général, co-organised with Le Grand Jeu and Judah Roger. There's no talk and no stage. It's a meet-and-greet with Alexander Newman, a book signing, and DJ sets on vinyl while the venue carries on as usual. […]
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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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B.C.E. 2026 — Surf, skate and snow in print at the Casino de Biarritz
Casino Municipal de Biarritz 1 avenue Édouard VII, Biarritz, FranceFrom 21 to 25 October, Le Grand Jeu leaves the passage de Ménilmontant for Biarritz. We'll be a partner of the third Board Culture Exposure, the international photography contest devoted to skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding. The main show at the Casino Municipal brings together 32 photographers across five categories: skate, surf, snow, lifestyle and reportage. […]