Art Week Paris Tens of thousands gathered at Porte d’Italie in Paris for a march led in part by culture-sector coalitions demanding a better life for artists.

October 24, 2026 — 5 min read

Artists, art students, and cultural workers joined hundreds of thousands of protesters marching across France on October 24, 2026. (photo Nicolas Tucat / AFP via Getty Images)

PARIS — On the heels of last Saturday’s mass protests — and amid the preemptive closure of Art Basel Paris and museums like the Louvre — Paris’s artists, culture workers, and art students were back in the streets today, October 24.

Tens of thousands gathered at Porte d’Italie for a march called in part by Cultures en Lutte, the network of culture-sector coalitions that has mobilized alongside the labor confederations and student unions since the movement began in mid-September, and by one of its driving forces, the National Union of Visual Artists (SNAP-CGT).

They came despite a week of warnings.…