Butterfly exhibition at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon
How long does it take for a caterpillar to become something other than itself? The Musée des Confluences takes this question literally and, over nearly two years, traces the entire life cycle of the butterfly, from egg to chrysalis and from chrysalis to adult. The numbers are modest,…
Bonnard Exhibition, The Collections, at the Bonnard Museum in Le Cannet
A painter who spent his life painting the same dining room, the same bathtub, the same woman, and who never painted the same picture twice. Pierre Bonnard returns to Le Cannet, to the house-museum dedicated to him, with a unique exhibition drawn from private collections on loan for…
The Frac Auvergne opens the Halle aux Blés in Clermont-Ferrand with "The Eternal Molts"
Three hundred and fifty square meters of exhibition space yesterday, more than nine hundred today. The Frac Auvergne has moved into an 18th-century grain market and is opening its doors wide. The building was constructed between 1762 and 1771 by François-Charles Dijon to sell grain.…
- Discovery
Roman art from the Louvre, a world of images
Museum of Roman Civilization
From June 11, 2026 to January 10, 2027
In Nîmes, the Roman world is not a memory: it is a geography. The Maison Carrée is intact, the Arena still welcomes spectators.
- Classic
- Photo
Surreal Women Exhibition at the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts
NANTES MUSEUM OF ARTS
From November 20, 2026 to March 21, 2027
The smugglers and the surrealist painters
Shigeru Ban exhibition, Building a Better World, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz
Cardboard, bamboo, reclaimed wood. With these materials, once considered humble, Shigeru Ban has been building churches, museums, and emergency shelters for forty years, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz is dedicating an exhibition to him, which he himself curated—a rare occurrence worth…
Exhibition: Diving into the Unknown at the National Maritime Museum in Toulon
How far can one descend, and what do we find at the bottom? The National Maritime Museum in Toulon takes this question seriously and retraces the entire underwater adventure in the Mediterranean, from Cousteau's first dives to the FNRS III bathyscaphe. We follow the patient and…
Exhibition "Art is a Conquest: André Malraux and Modern Art" at the MuMa in Le Havre
“We can only feel through comparison.” The phrase is by André Malraux, and the MuMa (Musée d'art moderne André Malraux) has made it the very principle of its exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The museum in Le Havre that bears his name is dedicating eleven months of…
Exhibition "Voyage à l'anglaise, Turner et les artistes du Grand Tour" (English Journey, Turner and the Artists of the Grand Tour), at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille
In 1819, a forty-four-year-old Englishman crossed the Alps for the first time and encountered a light that no watercolor had yet been able to capture. William Turner had a solid reputation behind him, Italy before him, and the unwavering conviction that landscape deserved more than a…
