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ALERT - Paris Art Week: what's closing, hour by hour

ART BASEL PARIS
Closing on the evening of October 23

Art Basel Paris announced on October 22 that it would close its doors on Friday evening, October 23, two days earlier than scheduled. The fair at the Grand Palais will not be open on Saturday, October 24, or Sunday, October 25.

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Janet Pharaoh, the breath of the Moulin Rouge

MOULIN ROUGE
Janet Pharaoh Dance Company

The Moulin Rouge has named a new professional dance company after Janet Pharaoh, its ballet mistress who passed away in 2025. It brings together the 95 artists of the troupe and continues thirty years of high standards.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Ibrahim Mahama exhibition at the Cartier Foundation: our photos and our review

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.

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Claude Lemand, with the wind in his sails: portrait of the collector and donor to the IMA

From Beirut to the Arab World Institute: the journey of a collector

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Planches Contact Festival, Generations, at Les Franciscaines in Deauville

THE FRANCISCAN NUNS
From October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Les Franciscaines hosts the 17th edition of the Planches Contact Festival, on the theme Generations, from October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027. Sixteen photographers spent several months in residence in Normandy, and Bruce Gilden is installing his New York retrospective right on the beach in Deauville.

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Art Basel Paris 2026 at the Grand Palais: our photos and our review

GRAND PALAIS
From October 23, 2026, closed on the 24th and 25th

From October 23 to 25, 2026, the fifth edition of Art Basel Paris will take place at the Grand Palais. Shared booths, a balcony dedicated to sixteen solo exhibitions, thirty-two galleries discovering the fair, and a new Premise sector open to works from before 1900 make it an event where discoveries compete with big names.

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• Living room

Modern Art Fair 2026, Place de la Concorde: our photos and our review

PLACE DE LA CONCORDE
October 22-25, 2026

Modern Art Fair will take place at Place de la Concorde from October 22 to 25, 2026. Modern art, contemporary creation and design will engage in dialogue there, and the edition will welcome the Arab World Institute with icons from the Claude and France Lemand donation.

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• Discovery

The "All Fires, Flowers" season at the Palais de Tokyo: our photos and our review

Palais de Tokyo
From October 21, 2026 to February 14, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 14, 2027, the Palais de Tokyo explores the links that unite us to places, memories and others with Tous les feux, les fleurs, a season where contemporary art draws sensitive territories, between intimate heritages, collective commitments and imaginaries in motion.

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• Movie theater

My First Festival 2026, cinema for young audiences in 21 Parisian cinemas

MY FIRST FESTIVAL
October 21-27, 2026

My First Festival returns for its twenty-second edition from October 21 to 27, 2026 in twenty-one Parisian cinemas and cultural venues, with more than one hundred films, a single price of 4.50 euros and Italy as guest of honor.