10 Exhibitions to See in Paris This Fall 

There is a distinctly patriotic flavor to Paris’s tentpole shows this fall. The Louvre is mounting what may be the most significant Jacques-Louis David exhibition in living memory, while the Petit Palais is doing his Napoleonic era contemporary Jean-Baptiste...

Lygia Pape Wants You to Participate

PARIS — This year, Paris didn’t slip back into la rentrée, that annual return from summer break to regular life, so much as lurch into it. What’s usually a seasonal shrug — crowded trains, humming cafés, full schools — has become a barometer of national...

Asia NOW Returns to the Monnaie de Paris for Its 11th Edition

From Wednesday, October 22, to Sunday, October 26, 2025, Asia NOW is open to the public at the Monnaie de Paris, with an invitation-only day on Tuesday, October 21. For its 11th edition, the fair brings together more than 70 international galleries from across Asia...

Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris

PARIS — The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden in household objects. Whether posing with angel wings or swallowed by a giant Muppet-like coat, the late artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019) has long...

The Asian Modernists of Paris

SINGAPORE — It was the good ol’ days — années folles, the “crazy years,” a moveable feast. In good weather, amid the crowd of tables at the Dome Cafe or on the streets of Montparnasse, that stomping ground of the School of Paris, one was likely to run into...