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Kerry James Marshall. The Histories

Kerry James Marshall. The Histories

Every day from Sep. 22 to Jan. 24

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Paris • 15-17 €

Seventy works, eight monumental new paintings, one long-overdue French debut. Kerry James Marshall's grand, vivid canvases put Black figures at the center of art history, from hair salons to Harriet Tubman.

Andy Warhol. La ligne et l'image

Andy Warhol. La ligne et l'image

Every day from Sep. 16 to Jan. 10

Musée du Luxembourg · 6th Arr. • 14 €

Before the silkscreens and soup cans, Warhol drew: constantly, inventively, by hand. Around 150 drawings trace his career from 1940s ad sketches to Last Supper studies, with detours into erotica and skulls.

Exposition Enki Bilal

Exposition Enki Bilal

Every day

Fonds Enki Bilal · Le Marais

Fifty years of dystopian daydreams, all under one roof. Enki Bilal's new foundation opens with 200+ works spanning comics, painting, and film: futures that feel uncomfortably plausible.

Éternel Tintoret

Éternel Tintoret

Every day from Sep. 11 to Jan. 24

Musée Jacquemart-André · 8th Arr.

France's first Tintoretto retrospective brings the Venetian master's thunder to a gilded Haussmann mansion. Forty works of dizzying perspectives and theatrical light, including a canvas once owned by David Bowie.

Réminiscences d’une Mer

Réminiscences d’une Mer

Oct. 17 & Oct. 18 at 10am

Fondation Suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier · Montsouris • Free

Basile Richon turns a vanishing coastal landscape into song. His free installation at the Fondation suisse layers sculpture, sound, and hypothetical archives of the fragile Zwin territory into one quietly haunting experience.

Coldplay : A Film for the Future

Coldplay : A Film for the Future

October 16 at 6pm +51

Atelier des Lumières · 11th Arr. • $12-$15

Wander through massive digital canvases after dark as art and music swirl around you. The Friday and Saturday night shows feel like stepping inside a living painting, minus the daytime crowds.

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Fri, Oct 16 · 9:00 AM

Activités enfants du musée

Louvre Museum · 1st Arr.

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Installations artistiques dans le cadre de l'exposition « La carte de France de Cassini : une encyclopédie du territoire »

Musée des Archives Nationales · Le Marais

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Exhibitions, Meetings, and Concerts

Bourse de Commerce · Les Halles

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Exposition Les Flammes : L'Âge de la céramique

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Gros-Caillou

$17

Fri, Oct 16 · 2:00 PM

Exposition collective Everyone Should Have a Home

Irish Cultural Centre · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 1:00 PM

Créer le cristal, Voyage entre art et science

Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus · Paris

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:30 AM

Plumes du paradis. Voyages d'un oiseau extraordinaire de Nouvelle-Guinée

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Paris

14 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Nan Goldin. Stendhal Syndrome

Bourse de Commerce · Les Halles

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Œuvres in situ

Bourse de Commerce · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 7:00 PM

AURA Invalides

Hôtel des Invalides · 7th Arr.

Fri, Oct 16 · 12:30 PM

Musée en mouvement

Auditorium du Louvre - Michel Laclotte · 1st Arr.

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:00 AM

Kader Attia et Elizabeth Peyton — Hôtes du Louvre

Louvre Museum · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

We Are Here

Petit Palais · Invalides

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 6:00 PM

Les nocturnes du mercredi et du vendredi - Les soirées du Louvre

Louvre Museum · 1st Arr.

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 1:00 PM

Chaïm Kaliski. « Jim d’Etterbeek »

MAHJ – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme · Le Marais

13 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

JARDINS D'ÉTÉ

Villette · La Villette

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 3:30 PM

Visite guidée - À la découverte de l’atelier

Eugène Delacroix Museum · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Expo des 150

Avenue du Général Leclerc · Alésia

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Cy Twombly Sperlonga 1959

Karsten Greve Gallery · Le Marais

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Visites privées au Louvre

Louvre Museum · 1st Arr.

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Mary Cassatt, l'indépendante

Musée d'Orsay · Paris

16 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 2:00 PM

Expo "à suivre" de Jean Faucheur

Galerie Mathgoth · Quartier Bruneseau

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Exposition "Jardin en Lumière"

Espace City'zen Paris · Paris

2,80 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Cézanne et nous

Grand Palais · Faubourg Saint-Honoré

19 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Florian Krewer: woven thin*

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Paris

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 2:00 PM

Dominique Rince-Barjou

Fresh Paint Gallery · Invalides

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Daniel Dezeuze Exhibition

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Paris

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Jean Hélion : voir, comment?

Galerie Alain Margaron · Le Marais

Fri, Oct 16 · 1:00 PM

Exposition : Créer le cristal, Voyage entre art et science

Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus · Paris

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 3:30 PM

À la découverte de l’atelier

Eugène Delacroix Museum · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Histoires de paysages. De Monet à Hockney (1890-2026)

Musée Marmottan Monet · 16th Arr.

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Pinault Collection

Bourse de Commerce · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Eva Gonzalès. Parcours d'une artiste libre

Petit Palais · Paris

0-14 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Le cirque, fabrique de l'art moderne

Musée de Montmartre · Montmartre

16 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Maison Pompidou

Maison Pompidou · Les Halles

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Hashigakari* Œuvres de Matsutani Takesada

Musée Cernuschi · Monceau

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Expositions et activités au musée de Cluny

Musée de Cluny · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 8:00 PM

L’Aube, c’est pas trop tôt (Amanece, que no es poco), de José Luis Cuerda

Louvre Museum · 1st Arr.

Fri, Oct 16 · 2:00 PM

Ab ora maris ad oram | Cent ans de rencontres étudiantes

Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris · Montsouris

Free

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Promenade Japonaise

Aquarium de Paris · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Exposition Eva Gonzalès

Petit Palais · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

L'étoffe de l'artiste. De Rosa Bonheur à Sonia Delaunay

Bourdelle Museum · Montparnasse

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Bourse de Commerce Events

Bourse de Commerce · Les Halles

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Renaissance

Atelier des Lumières · Paris

$11-$18

Fri, Oct 16 · 11:00 AM

Vie des Formes

Lafayette Anticipations · 4th Arr.

Fri, Oct 16 · 9:30 AM

Picasso Museum Entry Ticket in Paris

Musée National Picasso-Paris · Le Marais

€ 7-€ 22

Fri, Oct 16 · 2:00 PM

Transparence

Galerie Abstract Project · Charonne

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Étienne Dinet, Passions Algériennes

The Chain of Hope · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:30 AM

Plumes du paradis

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Kerry James Marshall

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Paris

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Vies minuscules

Panthéon · Paris

16 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 12:00 PM

The World of Banksy

Musée Banksy - Paris · Paris

16 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Giacometti surréaliste, Des objets comme des sculptures

Giacometti Institute · 14th Arr.

9 €

Fri, Oct 16 · 10:00 AM

Admirez-les tous !

Le Musée en Herbe · Les Halles

8 €

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Start with the exhibition or performance that interests you, then build the afternoon around it. Check the temporary exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, or the performance programme at Palais Garnier. One show and time to talk about it over dinner makes a good plan.

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