THE WEEKENDER 33 | 2026

“You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.”

― Orna Ross

The latest collage news and inspiration!

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• The importance of this medium comes partly from its ability to change the meaning of existing images. A photograph originally created for an advertisement can communicate something completely different when placed beside an unrelated photograph. Newspaper text can become both information and texture. A map can represent geography while also suggesting travel, memory or identity. This transformation of context became especially important during modern art, when creators began challenging traditional ideas about painting. Collage allowed them to introduce real-world materials directly into artworks instead of simply representing those materials with paint. - Collage Artists Today: Famous Contemporary and Modern Creators - via Tate Britain

• Fandoms have been in the pop culture realm for longer than most people can remember. At their core, they’re about amplifying the hype around a personality or project and bringing communities of like-minded obsessives together. Recently, though, they’ve been launching viral work of their own: Via a diverse range of media from photos to videos to collages, fan art has truly taken over the internet, transcending the way people support and engage with their favorites. - Meet the Fans Turning Pop Culture Obsessions Into Real Art - via Cosmopolitain

• Huit collages du peintre français, dérobés en décembre 2025 dans un musée de São Paulo, ont été récupérés par la police à côté d’une arme à feu dans un appartement en banlieue de la ville. - Des illustrations volées du livre “Jazz” de Matisse retrouvées au Brésil - via Telerama

• From The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats to Frederick by Leo Lionni to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrated by Lois Ehlert, there are lots of beloved classic picture books that use collage to create beautiful illustrations. And with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the more than 70 other books he created using a distinct collage style, Eric Carle is in a category all his own! - Move Over, Eric Carle: Newer Picture Books with Beautiful Collage Illustrations - via Book Riot

• Jusqu’au 30 août 2026, le Musée de Grenoble consacre une rétrospective majeure à Léon Tutundjian (1905-1968), artiste franco-arménien longtemps demeuré à la marge des grands récits de l’art moderne. Intitulée Léon Tutundjian. Poétique du cosmos, l’exposition réunit 130 œuvres et restitue la richesse d’un parcours qui relie abstraction géométrique, biomorphisme, collage et surréalisme. - Léon Tutundjian au Musée de Grenoble : redécouvrir un pionnier de l’abstraction jusqu’au 30 août 2026 - via artprice.com

• A selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here

• Our 2026 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!

If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com