Alex Katz at Paris Gallery Weekend Sarah Moroz's Top Picks

Paris may be teeming with Olympics fanfare - as the games loom in late July and the city hurriedly scrambles to accommodate them - but the capital's Gallery Weekend is a blissful reprieve from all that nervous anticipation. Taking place between May 24th and 26th, the event marks its 10th anniversary this year and encompasses 93 art galleries, featuring 250 artists and 90 solo shows. Complementary events include talks along with thematic and geographical routes (Marais, Belleville-to-Romainville, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and Matignon) that thread through various corners of the Île-de-France.

Here, we pick the nine most notable shows from this year's Paris Gallery Weekend.

Alex Katz, "60 Years of Printmaking", Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, through July 23

In the mid-1960s, when Pop Art's bandwidth broadened to include mechanical reproduction and rendering techniques, Alex Katz began experimenting with these techniques, too. At first, the artist often portrayed figures from the New York social world, such as artists, poets, choreographers, and dancers. More recently, his large-scale black-and-white silkscreens and linoleum cuts have been inspired by crowds of shoppers.

Dedicated to 60 years of the American artist's career, this is the first exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac dedicated to Katz's printmaking practice. The show ranges from early landscapes-such as Luna Park 1, his first print made with a print house in 1965-to recent, monochrome portraits. "60 Years of Printmaking" is taking place in tandem with an exhibition of Katz's recent paintings on view at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice.