PARIS OPENS NEW MUSEUM DEDICATED TO STREET ART

Paris is now home to France’s first permanent museum dedicated to street art. Opened October 1, the sprawling 40,000-square-foot exhibition space displays 150 works by fifty artists. The collection, which belongs to Nicolas Laugero-Lasserre focuses on French artists and includes recent works by JR, C215, and Brusk as well as historical works by street art pioneers like Jacques Villéglé and Ernest Pignon-Ernest.

Describing the project’s mission, Laugero-Lasserre told Le Monde he sees the new museum as a way to offer “better visibility” to urban art and as a way to “democratize access to art.” The museum charges no admission and is housed inside a technical training school in Paris’s seventeenth district.