In honor of its 125th anniversary, L’Alliance New York has commissioned a new, permanent installation by the Swiss artist collective Plonk & Replonk – Bébert. Cabinet of Curiosities, marking the collective’s U.S. premiere, takes visitors on a journey through L’Alliance New York’s history, using humorously re-imagined historical artifacts.

American-born artist Nina Childress—recently inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts—takes over L’Alliance New York’s public spaces with vibrant, fluorescent paintings and newly commissioned murals that showcase her unique, lifelong, and incisively critical engagement with portraiture.

The Fall 2024 Version Restaurée series will feature over twenty exclusive premieres from the French-speaking world, including restored versions of films never before screened in the U.S. This program offers a unique opportunity to revisit beloved classics and make discoveries, promising an exciting chance to reassess Francophone film history through a program of revelations.

L’Alliance New York and Studio in a School invite students to discover the work of French-speaking artists and create their own pieces that will be displayed in a new exhibition in L’Alliance New York’s Skyroom.

Bring your toddler to the 2nd floor library for Petits potes, a fun story time in French! Walking and non-walking little ones will enjoy interactive stories, games, and songs, all in a group setting.

Starting this fall, L’Alliance New York will become a family affair; offering family-inspired activities on Saturdays!

The most thrilling actor of his generation, Patrick Dewaere was a blazing comet that streaked across French cinema all too briefly. Part one of this series highlights three recently restored films that show Dewaere’s unique depth and pathos: Judge Fayard aka The Sheriff, A Bad Son, and Serie Noire.

A young, crusading DA in a provincial city tries to take on corrupt politicians, police and exploitative factory owners, soon discovering the link between all is a history with a far-right organization.

Join us for a delightful evening celebrating the holiday season at our Montclair campus!

Combining solo performance with an art scene from the peripheries and the Antilles, this two day celebration centers around transdisciplinary artist Bintou Dembélé’s grassroot investigations into the concept of “marronnage”—a term historically identified with enslaved peoples’ escape from the plantation, but which has come to signify the fugitivity of the body, spirit and soul from all forms of current oppression, in order to create new societies.

A young man returns to Paris — and confronts his demons — after spending five years in a U.S. prison on narcotics charges.

In what he considered his best performance, Patrick Dewaere plays a door-to-door salesman lured into a get-rich-quick murder scheme after meeting a captivating teenager.

Laurent Achard’s debut film, Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, portrays a troubling family reunion and the impact of ambient violence on children. This rare screening introduces American audiences to an underrated figure in French cinema.

Celebrate the holidays with your L’Alliance New York famille at a stylish soirée at the French Consulate’s beautiful mansion on Fifth Avenue.

Carolers and tinsel; the perfect setting for Christmas Eve in a snowy mountain village. But when a body is discovered, dressed as Santa, the hysteria soon spreads and accusations fly.

L’Alliance New York announces the winter program for 2025 including the Animation First Festival, part two of the popular film series, The Ballad of Patrick Dewaere, a gallery exhibition of iconic The New Yorker Magazine covers, three staged readings of French classics, and an inaugural graphic novel festival.

This bold rewriting of Molière’s immortal satire brings the play into a modern London world of media celebrity, capturing the disappointed loves and poisonous intrigues lurking behind polite society.

Two of France’s most beloved artists come together in one spellbinding evening of language, as iconic actor Isabelle Huppert performs seven short stories by the 19th century master of the form, Guy de Maupassant.

Molière’s most successful play shines in this reenvisioning by the artists of Molière in the Park, using non-traditional casting choices—casting women in male roles and swapping genders—to deconstruct The Miser’s complex power dynamics.

Dancer-choreographer Thierry Thieû and visual artist Roxane Revon work with preschoolers over a two-week period to create movement and artwork inspired by plant life.