A day in São Paulo, three days in Rio - to open the new building of Casa Amarela @casaamarelaprovidencia on Morro da Providencia. Casa Amarela is now almost 17 years old (and I started working there in 2010!), the moon was built 10 years ago, and a new chapter is starting with this new building that has been a 6 year long project. The moon remains an artist residency - if you’d like to stay there, you need to teach a workshop to the kids - you can contact @casaamarelaprovidencia @canartchangetheworld Thank you to the team who made a wonderful event possible !

This year we got help from Obelix to light our menorah. Two years ago, shortly after October 7, Gail Albert Halaban @gailalberthalaban photographed our family lighting Hanukah candles at the window of our previous home in Fort Greene. It was a very meaningful moment, as one of the teachings of Hanukah is that a little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness. Kids lighting candles, mesmerized by the mighty magic of a little flame…

Can Art Change The World? This is a question I’ve been asking since I joined @JR fifteen years ago. I started when I was living in Rio de Janeiro, by taking care of Casa Amarela, a cultural and educational center he had just founded with photographer and historian Mauricio Hora (@mauhora ), on top of Morro da Providência, Rio’s first favela. Shortly after, in 2011, I moved to New York to help him create the Inside Out Project ( @insideoutproject ), which has since become the largest participatory art project in the world, with more than 600,000 participants in 152 countries, and keeps growing. We’ve done tens of projects around the world since, mostly financed by the sale of artworks. The initial impact is usually very strong, so in order to keep the momentum and to bring continuity, we formally established a non profit, simply named Can Art Change The World?. ( @canartchangetheworld ) . Over the years, many projects have shown that art can foster social change. In Ukraine following Valeriia project, in the US following the Guns Chronicles (two projects that made it to the cover of Time magazine), but also in the maximum security prison of Tehachapi, where after the incredible project in 2019 and the documentary that followed, we launched a arts program and curriculum that now reaches over 1 million incarcerated people. At Casa Amarela ( @casaamarelaprovidencia ), 16 years later, thanks to the great work of @ninasoutoul and @t.i.t.i.t.i.p.h.a.n.i.e ,  dozens of children and women participate in workshops everyday, a second building will be inaugurated next year, and the moon became an artist residency and a beacon of hope. We’re still learning how to navigate the world of philanthropy. Very grateful for our amazing team (and former team members) and board members, and all our supporters. And yes, art can change the world.  @jkscatena tormentaenllamas @ashleylaurenhamilton @camillerousselet @ninasoutoul @janetribeca @vercheesey @michaelhanianyc @solguy @joshuabgeyer @luanasaltiel @luigerman @fergusonag

Monday to Friday - Beijing, Napa, San Francisco - not in the right order

翩然人生 / La Vie en Mouvement - a collection of works by @jr about Paris and ballet (and ballet in Paris) presented for the first time at @perrotin in Shanghai

As you can see, @dukerileystudio is very fond of the Eiffel Tower - you need to go see his first ever show in Paris, Baigné de vos langueurs, at @galerievallois 36 rue de Seine. Drawings, scrimshaws, mosaics - for those who missed the Brooklyn Museum show museum, a lot to see.

On Friday, under the statue of Henri IV (le Vert Galant), the Place du Pont Neuf was renamed Place du Pont Neuf Christo and Jeanne Claude, after the couple of artists that wrapped it exactly 40 years ago, by the Mayor of Paris and Vladimir Yavachev @yavachev the nephew of the artists. It was an incredible couple of artists, both born on the exact same day (coincidence?), that made happen public art projects that no one thought possible. They paved the way, and to honor them in the summer 2026, at the invitation of the @christojeanneclaude foundation , @jr will wrap once again the oldest stone bridge of Paris. More soon…

Thank you for the music and the genius always @jonbatiste

A few days in Portugal: sardine season starting in Caparica, olive trees burgeoning in Marvão, cliffs in Sagres, a Roman bridge full of Jewish history in Portagem.

Tokyo and Kyoto in full bloom, cherry blossoms everywhere, to print The Chronicles of Kyoto @jr @kyotographie . First time in Japan and so touched by the refinement, the quietness, the delicate and precise way to see the world.

Last week we went back to Tehachapi, the prison where we started an art project more than five years ago. We went back with three participants of the project, Kevin, Barrett and Corey, that were formerly incarcerated there, and we screened the documentary made about the whole project to over 200 currently incarcerated men. It was so powerful to witness the conversations between the formerly and currently incarcerated, to show that change is indeed possible. Hopefully we can screen it to many prisons around the US and the world, to create these conversations.

Tellement fiers de collaborer avec Joann Sfar pour notre édition limitée de plateaux de Seder. Rendez vous sur Hayom.art pour le commander (lien dans la bio). Livraison gratuite pour la France 🇫🇷 ! 🐱 🥬🥚🕍 For the 2025 edition of our porcelain Seder Plates, Joann Sfar illustrated the ritual foods traditionally eaten during the Passover Seder meal. He also added deeply personal touches, evoking the essence of a joyful holiday feast: a child slowly drifting to sleep (is it his son, the artist as a child, or perhaps your own?) while his most famous character, the Rabbi’s Cat, appears to leap playfully into the Seder plate. 🛒 ORDER BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE OR ON OUR WEBSITE HAYOM.ART #sederplate #passover #plateaudeseder #pesach #pesach2025 #passover2025 #judaica #modernjudaica #judaicaart #jewishtable #hagsameah #joannsfar #hayom art