Major Parisian exhibitions
Paris’ leading museums show exhibitions, some of which come from many different parts of the world. Here is a selection of highlights for the 2017-2018 cultural season and a preview of the line-up for 2018-2019.
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Current exhibitions in Paris:
- Peter the Great, a Tsar in France (1717) at Château de Versailles until 24 September 2017
- 'Portraits of Cezanne' at the Musée d'Orsay until 24 September 2017
- 'Ed van der Elsken, Ismaïl Bahri' at the Jeu de Paume until 24 September 2017
- 'Clothes in Spanish tones' at Maison de Victor Hugo until 24 September 2017
- 'The Sacred Stone of the Māori' at the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac until 1 October 2017
- Carte blanche to Anselm Kiefer at the Musée Rodin until 22 October 2017
- David Hockney at the Centre Pompidou until 23 October 2017
- 'Auto Photo' at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain until 24 October 2017
- 'Derain, Balthus, Giacometti' at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris until 29 October 2017
- 'Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos' at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris until 5 November 2017
- 'African Routes' at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac until 12 November 2017
- 'Lee Ungno (1904-1989) - A Man of the Crowd' at the Musée Cernuschi until 19 November 2017
- Maria by Callas at La Seine Musicale until 14 December 2017
- 'Anders Zorn, the painter of fin-de-siècle Sweden' at the Petit Palais until 17 December 2017
- Christian Dior at the Musée des Arts décoratifs until 7 January 2018
- Glass in the Middle Ages at Musée de Cluny until 8 January 2018
- Montmartre, a movie set at the Musée de Montmartre until 14 January 2018
- 'Monet the Collector' at the Musée Marmottan Monet until 14 January 2018
- Impressionnists from the Ordrupgaard collection at Jacquemart-André museum until 22 January 2018
- Irving Penn at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais until 29 January 2018
- 'The Art of Pastel, from Degas to Redon: the Petit Palais collection' at the Petit Palais until April 8, 2018
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Upcoming exhibitions in Paris:
- Pop art - Icons that matter from the Whitney Museum of American art collections at Musée Maillol from September 22, 2017 until January 21, 2018
- Christians from the East, 2,000 years of History at Institut du Monde Arabe from September 26, 2017 until January 14, 2018
- René Gosciny, beyond the laughter at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme from September 27, 2017 until March 4, 2018
- Native forests: arts in Equatorial Africa at the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac from 3 October 2017 until 28 January 2018
- 'The Spanish scene: Mariano Fortuny' at the Palais Galliera from 4 October 2017 until 7 January 2018
- 'Rubens, Portraits of Princes' at the Musée du Luxembourg from 4 October 2017 until 15 January 2018
- 'André Derain: 1904-1914 The Radical Decade' at the Centre Pompidou from 4 October 2017 until 29 January 2018
- 'Bourdelle and Antiquity: a modern passion' at the Musée Bourdelle from 4 October 2017 until 4 February 2018
- Gosciny and the cinema, Asterix, Lucky Luke & Cie at the Cinemathèque from October 4, 2017 until March 4, 2018
- 'Albert Renger-Patszch, Ali Kazma' at the Jeu de Paume from 7 October 2017 until 21 January 2018
- 'Picasso 1932' at the Musée Picasso from 10 October 2017 until 11 February 2018
- Sophie Calle and Serena Carone at Musée de la chasse et de la nature from 10 October 2017 until 11 February 2018
- 'Gauguin, the Alchemist' at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from 11 October 2017 until 22 January 2018
- Being Modern: The MoMA in Paris at Fondation Louis Vuitton from 11 October 2017 until 5 March 2018
- The Experience of Color at Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres from 12 October 2017 until 2 April 2018
- 'Barbara' at the Philharmonie de Paris from October 13, 2017 until January 28, 2018
- 'Nalini Malani retrospective' at the Centre Pompidou from 18 October 2017 until 8 January 2018
- 'Francis I of France and Dutch art' at the Musée du Louvre from 18 October 2017 until 15 January 2018
- Dada Africa: roots and influences at Musée de l'Orangerie from October 18, 2017 until February 19, 2018
- Émile Guimet's travels in Asia at musée Guimet from 18 October 2017 until 26 February 2018
- Women House 2.0 at Monnaie de Paris from 20 October 2017 until 28 January 2018
- "Voyage d'hiver", contemporary art installations in the garden of Versailles palace from October 21, 2017 until January 7, 2018
- 'Lieux saints partagés' (Shared sacred sites) at Musée national de l'Histoire de l'immigration from 23 October 2017 until 21 January 2018
- 'Les visiteurs de Versailles' (1682-1789) at Château de Versailles from 24 October 2017 until 25 February 2018
- French landscapes, a photographic adventure (1984-2017) at Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterrand from 24 October 2017 until 4 February 2018
- Picasso 1947: a major donation to the Musée national d'art moderne at musée Picasso from October 24, 2017 until February 25, 2018
- 21st Paris Photo Fair at the Grand Palais, 9-12 November 2017
- Mad minds: the invention of the art of madness at Maison de Victor Hugo from 17 November 2017 until 25 February 2018
- Degas, Dance, Drawing. Homage with Paul Valéry at Musée d'Orsay from November 28, 2017 until February 25, 2018
- 'Daho likes it pop' at the Philharmonie de Paris from December 5, 2017 until April 29, 2018
- 'César, the retrospective' at the Centre Pompidou from 13 December 2017 until 26 March 2018
- Corot and the figure at the Musée Marmottan Monet from 8 February until 8 July 2018
- Dutch artists in Paris, 1789-1914: Van Gogh, Van Dongen, Mondrian at Petit Palais from February until May 2018
- Young Tintoretto at Musée du Luxembourg from 7 March until 1 July 2018
- Jewelery by artists, from Picasso to Jeff Koons at the Musée des Arts décoratifs from 7 March until 1 July 2018
- Foujita at Musée Maillol from 7 March until 15 July 2018
- Mary Cassatt, an American in Paris at Jacquemart-André museum from 9 March until 23 July 2018
- Martin Margiela at Palais Galliera, March through August 2018
- Scents of China - Incense culture in the age of emperors at Musée Cernuschi, March through August 2018
- Kupkas at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from 21 March until 30 July 2018
- Martin Margiela - the Hermès years at the Musée des Arts décoratifs from 21 March until 2 September 2018
- About Guernica at the Musée Picasso from 27 March until 29 July 2018
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) at the Musée du Louvre from 28 March until 23 July 2018
- Chagall, Malevich, El Lissitzky at the Centre Pompidou from 28 March until 23 July 2018
- Néandertal at Musée de l'Homme from 28 March 2018 until 7 January 2019
- Stéphane Thidet at the Conciergerie from April 2 until October 2018
- Artists and Robots at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from 4 April until 9 July 2018
- Rodin and dance at Musée Rodin from 6 April until 22 July 2018
- Al Musica at the Philharmonie de Paris from April 6 until August 19, 2018
- Symbolism in art in the Baltic states at the Musée d'Orsay from 10 April until 15 July 2018
- Monet's Water Lilies: from New Yorker abstraction to the last Monet at Musée de l'Orangerie from 13 April until 20 August 2018
- Zao Wou-Ki - an area of silent testimony at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, April through October 2018
- Klimt: voyage at the heart of the Vienna Secession at L'Atelier des Lumières in the spring 2018
- The Hittite Empire at the Musée du Louvre in the spring 2018
- 'Picasso and Dance' at the Opéra Garnier from 13 June until 16 September 2018
- Impressionists in London - French artists in exile at Petit Palais, June through October 2018
- Polychrome sculpture in the collections of Musée d'Orsay in summer 2018
- Alberto Giacometti at Musée Maillol from 14 September 2018 until 20 January 2019
- Picasso's Blue and Pink periods at the Musée d'Orsay from 18 September 2018 until 6 January 2019
- Venice in the time of Vivaldi and Tiepolo at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from September 2018 until January 2019
- Alfonse Mucha at the Musée du Luxembourg from September 2018 until January 2019
- The first gothic sculpture in the Paris region at Musée de Cluny in the fall 2018
- Cut-outs by Rodin at Musée Rodin in the fall 2018
- The Baron of Campana and his collection at the Musée du Louvre from 17 October 2018 until 26 January 2019
- Cubism at the Centre Pompidou from 17 October 2018 until 4 march 2019
- Treasures of Kyōto: three centuries of creation in Rinpa at Musée Cernuschi, October 2018 through January 2019
- Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), painter of intimacy at Musée de la vie romantique, October 2018 through February 2019
- Transmission / transgression: Master and pupils in the Bourdelle atelier at Musée Bourdelle, October through March 2019
- Joan Miró, the color of my dreams at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from October 2018 until January 2019
- Eiffel and Paris at Musée d'Orsay in November 2018
- Michael Jackson at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais from November 2018 until February 2019
- Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), master of enigma at Petit Palais, December 2018 through March 2019
- Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), builder of fantasy at Petit Palais, December 2018 through March 2019
- The kingdom of Napata - archaeological digs in Sudan at the Musée du Louvre in 2018
- Our 1960s at Musée des arts décoratifs in the spring 2019
- Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre in the fall 2019
- Tolkien at Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterrand in 2019
- Italian sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo at the Musée du Louvre in the spring 2020
- The Ivan Morozov collection (Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Picasso...) at Fondation Louis Vuitton in the fall 2020
- Arts in Toulouse in the 14th century at Musée de Cluny in the fall 2020
