The Palais de Tokyo is throwing open its doors for free on October 22 and 23, inviting visitors to discover its new autumn season at no cost. The welcome runs from noon to 10 p.m. on Wednesday and noon to 5 p.m. on Thursday, with no booking required.

The season takes shape around "ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, French Thought", a carte blanche project curated by US curator Naomi Beckwith that stretches across the entire building. Around sixty established and emerging artists map the circulation of forms and ideas between France and the United States. At its center is a major retrospective of sculptor Melvin Edwards, while a wall-scale installation by Caroline Kent spreads her abstract visual vocabulary across the building's expansive Zone, joined by works from artists including Pope.L.

Alongside the carte blanche, three solo shows open on October 21. Martinican artist Valérie John fills the Grande Verrière with papers, textiles, garments and installations in indigo, in "I telman nwè ki i blé" ("So dark that it becomes blue"), tracing connections between Martinique, Senegal and the Atlantic crossings of memory. Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes presents textile sculptures built from salvaged fabrics, cords and found objects in "Cœur sauvage" ("Wild Heart"), drawing on her Afro-Brazilian heritage. And Céleste Richard-Zimmermann turns the galleries into an abandoned quarry in "Toutes les colonnes n'ont pas un cœur de pierre" ("Not All Columns Have a Heart of Stone"), where a large broken, hollow column anchors sculptures, paintings and sound works that ask what happens to monuments when their authority falters.

The group exhibition "Toi et ta bande" gathers around thirty works by artists and collectives based far from major cities, while a film programme presents recent work by Rose Lowder. All of the new presentations run into winter, mostly through January and February 2027.