Next Stop on the Art-Fair Go-Round PARIS-Art is popping up all over Paris on the eve of the opulent International Contemporary Art Fair known as FIAC, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Paris. The 1900 Grand Palais becomes a giant art emporium designed to attract contemporary art collectors, museum curators and international dealers. This year the 182 participating galleries include a lineup of major and rising French and international names, including Gagosian, Thaddeus Ropac, Marian Goodman, Matthew Marks, Emmanuel Perrotin, White Cube and Bugada & Cargnel. But some of the art doesn't bear price tags. Nina Siegal writes: In the auditorium of the Louvre this week, the artist Matt Mullican will enter a trance-like state and give an impromptu lecture about his 40-year history of performing while under hypnosis. At David Lynch's Parisian club, Silencio, the Swiss conceptualist Dieter Meier will sign books at a private event, while films of his years in the electronic band Yello are projected on the walls. And in the mineral gallery of Paris's natural history museum, two performers placed in a glass booth will read dates from 998,031 B.C. to 1,001,995 A.D., from the artist On Kawara's work "One Million Years." The director of FIAC, Jennifer Flay, says: "We've got more conceptual works on display this year than ever before. The fair is at its core-and as its raison d'être is-a market event. Obviously that is our primary function. But around that it is important for us to address types of artistic production that fall outside or have fallen outside traditional market practices. Read more of the IHT's preview of FIAC. Are you going to FIAC? Let us know what you see-and what you think of it-in the comment space below.