• Fashion

De Latour & Maïques Exhibition: Metamorphosis at the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais (City of Lace and Fashion in Calais)

CITY OF LACE AND FASHION
From September 19 to December 13, 2026

Until December 13, 2026, the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode (City of Lace and Fashion) in Calais is showcasing a display window dedicated to Vincent Richard de Latour and Claire Maïques, textile embellishment artisans. Lace, organza, marbled leather, and metallization combine in a delightfully disorienting exhibition.

• Contemporary
• Free

"Let's Sow Our Resistance" Exhibition, the activist exhibition, at the MAIF Social Club

MAIF SOCIAL CLUB
From October 17, 2026 to July 24, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to July 24, 2027, the MAIF Social Club in Paris brings together fifteen artists who embrace joyful dissent. An exhibition to resist a brutal world without abandoning its joy. Free admission.

• Photo
• Free

Pietro Pietromarchi's Steam Power exhibition at the Minsky Gallery

MINSKY GALLERY
From November 12 to 28, 2026

From November 12 to 28, 2026, the Minsky Gallery in Paris will exhibit Pietro Pietromarchi's latest photographs of steam trains for Paris Photo. These are brand-new black and white images taken in Pakistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Admission is free.

• Contemporary
• Free

Exhibition "Creating a vase, a true art," at the JAD, Garden of Arts and Crafts and Design, in Sèvres

JAD - GARDEN OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN
From October 16, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 16, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the JAD - Jardin des métiers d’art et du design, in Sèvres, is exhibiting twenty-one variations on the vase, commissioned from ten young winners of the Cnap. Free entry to discover the pieces, drawings and experiments.

• With family
• Digital

Exhibition "Focus on AI: Understanding the Machine" at the Air and Space Museum

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
From October 15, 2026 to June 27, 2027

From October 15, 2026 to June 27, 2027, the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget will be exhibiting artificial intelligence with around thirty interactive modules. This exhibition, suitable for curious visitors aged ten and up, also dedicates 160 m² to defense AI.

• Contemporary
• Living room

Autumn Salon 2026: a thousand artists and not a single gallery, Place de la Concorde

AUTUMN FAIR
October 28 to November 1, 2026

From October 28 to November 1, 2026, the Salon d'Automne sets up its 123rd edition at Place de la Concorde: a thousand works from fifty nationalities, not a single gallery, and the artists present next to their works for five days.

• Classic

The strange case of Monsieur Gallé, the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy opens the workshops of Émile Gallé: one hundred and forty pieces, from 1880 to the 1920s, in an exhibition recognized as being of national interest by the State.

• Contemporary
• Free

HEY! Fabulous Familiar at Val Fleury: art emerges from materials we thought unworthy

LE VAL FLEURY
From October 16, 2026 to January 31, 2027

From October 16, 2026 to January 31, 2027, the Val Fleury in Gif-sur-Yvette hosts HEY! Fabulous Familiar, with free admission: brought together by Anne Richard, ten artists create works using seashells, buttons, bones, or nail polish. Strange, or rather fabulous.

• Contemporary

Imaginary Engine Exhibition at Large, the new art venue on Île Seguin

LARGE - CONTEMPORARY CULTURES
From October 17, 2026 to March 7, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to March 7, 2027, Large, the new art venue on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, opens with Imaginary Engine: one hundred and twenty works, including seventeen new commissions, around the engine, in the very place where Renault assembled its cars.

• Contemporary
• Unusual

Stefan Sagmeister Exhibition at the Gaîté Lyrique

GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE
From October 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027

From October 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027, the Gaîté Lyrique invites designer Stefan Sagmeister to transform two centuries of statistics into objects to look at closely: thirteen years after The Happy Show, Finally, Something Good takes pessimism by surprise.

• Contemporary
• Unusual

Lionel Sabatté Exhibition, What Remains, at the Museum of Hunting and Nature

MUSEUM OF HUNTING AND NATURE
From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027, the Museum of Hunting and Nature opens its two private mansions in the Marais to Lionel Sabatté: beasts of dust, rust and dead skins, mostly unseen, one year after his nomination for the Marcel Duchamp prize.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Louise Bourgeois exhibition, Extreme Tension, at the BnF Richelieu

National Library of France - Richelieu Site
From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027, the BnF is exhibiting on its Richelieu site the engraved and drawn work of Louise Bourgeois: the 1995 donation brought out of storage, augmented by ninety-one works from the Centre Pompidou, for its first exhibition in a Parisian public institution since 2008.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Ibrahim Mahama Exhibition, Harvest Time, at the Cartier Foundation

CARTIER FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
From October 22, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 22, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Cartier Foundation entrusts all of its spaces in the Palais-Royal to the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama: a glass bottle factory dismantled in Ghana and reassembled in Paris, a parliament of stools and several guest artists.

• Classic
• Drawing

My dear friends. Drawing in the collections of 19th-century French artists, the exhibition at the Custodia Foundation

CUSTODIA FOUNDATION
From October 17, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the Custodia Foundation brings together nearly one hundred and twenty drawings that 19th-century artists gave to each other and collected among themselves: a Delacroix at Cézanne's, a Manet at Degas's, some sheets shown for the first time.

• Photo
• Free

Irving Penn, The Essence of Portraiture, by Thaddaeus Ropac

THADDAEUS ROPAC GALLERY
From November 7, 2026 to January 30, 2027

From November 7, 2026 to January 30, 2027, the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, in the Marais, shows portraits of Irving Penn, from Marcel Duchamp to Elizabeth Peyton: images that rival painting, with free admission.

• Free
• With family

Cast off! 400 years of maritime history at the Château de Vincennes

Vincennes Castle
From September 19 to December 23, 2026

Until December 23, 2026, the Château de Vincennes presents Cast off the moorings! Four centuries under sail, with free admission: sixty rarely shown documents, brought together by the Historical Service of the Defense, tell the story of the four hundred years of the Navy founded by Richelieu in 1626.

• Contemporary
• Free

Lee Bae, Brushstrokes and Born of Fire, at Perrotin

PERROTIN MARAIS
From October 17 to December 19, 2026

From October 17 to December 19, 2026, Perrotin Marais presents Lee Bae, a Korean artist who has lived in France since 1990 and now works exclusively with charcoal: charred pine trees from the series "Born of Fire" combined with inks from "Brushstrokes." Black, nothing but black, free admission.

• With family
• Digital

Planet Ocean, the Atelier des Lumières descends into the abyss

WORKSHOP OF LIGHTS
Starting October 16, 2026

From October 16, 2026, the Atelier des Lumières plunges into the ocean with Planète Océan, immersion into the depths: a 360-degree show that descends from coral gardens to the abyss, where animals make their own light.

• With family
• Free

From Mimi Cracra to The Crazy Alphabet: Agnès Rosenstiehl at the BnF

National Library of France, François-Mitterrand Site
From November 3, 2026 to January 25, 2027

From November 3, 2026 to January 25, 2027, the BnF, François-Mitterrand site, is dedicating a free exhibition to Agnès Rosenstiehl: Mimi Cracra, of course, but above all sixty years of pioneering books, taken from the six hundred and twenty-five plates given to the library in 2025.

• Contemporary
• Photo

Where the soil grows: Anaïs Tondeur at 261 Boulevard Raspail

261 Boulevard Raspail
From November 5 to 29, 2026

From November 5 to 29, 2026, Anaïs Tondeur and her guests will take over 261 boulevard Raspail, the glass building that the Cartier Foundation has left: seven artists and five writers will make the life of the ground felt there, through photography, sound and smell.

• Photo
• Free

Serge Najjar, At the T Moment, at the Lahumière Gallery

LAHUMIÈRE GALLERY
From October 17 to December 19, 2026

From October 17 to December 19, 2026, the Lahumière gallery in the Marais district will exhibit the photographs of Serge Najjar: angles and flat planes captured on construction sites in Lebanon, and the first photographer to be featured in the gallery's history. Free admission.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Fragonard Exhibition, 100 Years of Collections at the Monnaie de Paris

MONNAIE DE PARIS
From November 13, 2026 to January 10, 2027

From November 13, 2026 to January 10, 2027, the Monnaie de Paris hosts the centenary of the Fragonard house: two hundred and seventy paintings, bottles and costumes leave Grasse for the first time and are installed in its 18th century salons.

• News
• Fashion

The Hunger Games at the Rodin Museum: our exclusive photos of the Panem costumes

RODIN MUSEUM
October 7-8, 2026

Lionsgate is installing the costumes from the Hunger Games saga in the Rodin Museum garden for just two days: the original outfits worn by the actors are displayed alongside pieces from the upcoming film, Sunrise on the Harvest, unveiled in a preview.

• Photo
• Free

Daft Punk: Around the World, an exhibition of previously unseen photos in Paris

58 RUE VOLTA, PARIS 3RD ARRONDISSEMENT
Pre-opening from October 23rd to 24th, 2026

Five years after the duo's separation, Around the World brings together around sixty rare or unpublished photographs of Daft Punk, and offers a free twenty-four-hour non-stop preview in the Marais.

Theatre in Paris: what's new in December 2026

Simone de Beauvoir, Les Gaulois, Food Court and The King's Speech: the theatre premieres of December 2026 in Paris, and the other major events of the month.

• Theater
• Literary

Simone de Beauvoir, Two or Three Things She Tells Us About Herself, at the Théâtre de la Ville

CITY THEATRE – SARAH BERNHARDT
December 1–19, 2026

Marie-Armelle Deguy brings to life the youth of Simone de Beauvoir at the Théâtre de la Ville, from December 1st to 19th, in a one-woman show created from her memoirs.

• Shows
• Discovery

No Regrets?, The Rat Pack's cine-circus-concert at La Scala Paris

LA SCALA PARIS
From November 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027

The Rat Pack Cie blends circus, cinema and live music in Sans Regrets?, at La Scala Paris from November 20 to January 17.

• Shows
• With family

Ten Thousand Hours, by Gravity & Other Myths, at La Villette

LA VILLETTE – GRANDE HALLE
From December 2 to 26, 2026

The Australian acrobats of Gravity & Other Myths are showing at La Villette, from December 2nd to 26th, what ten thousand hours of training conceal.

• Theater
• Discovery

The Gauls at the Bouffes du Nord

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
December 3–20, 2026

Thomas Blanchard and Olivier Martin-Salvan are performing in Marion Aubert's Les Gaulois at the Bouffes du Nord, a farce about identity to be seen from December 3 to 20.

• Theater
• Festival

Food Court, from Back to Back Theatre, at the Odéon

ODÉON – THEATRE DE L'EUROPE
December 4–19, 2026

The Australian company Back to Back Theatre presents Food Court at the Odéon from December 4 to 19, with the trio The Necks performing live.