The ubiquitous artist-photographer, known for his monumental black- and-white photomurals that often bring to the fore the unseen faces that make up communities around the world, this year released Paper & Glue, a ‘making of ’ documentary revisiting some of his most ambitious projects at sites including the US–Mexico border, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and a California supermax prison. But JR is not one to dwell on the past or get slowed down by a global pandemic, instead he completed trompe-l’œil installations in Paris, Florence, and at Egypt’s Great Pyramids, the last a part of an unprecedented exhibition across the Unesco World Heritage Site. Meanwhile the Frenchman has been successfully navigating the artworld: this year staging solo shows at Perrotin, Tokyo; London’s Saatchi and Pace galleries; the Groninger Museum; and curating Truc à Faire, the inaugural show at Galleria Continua’s new Paris space. In between all that he also had time for a pre-Met Gala collaboration with Timothée Chalamet, while Kourtrajmé, the free art and cinema school he coruns in Paris opened its third outpost in Dakar this January.