• Free
• Contemporary

The Roussard Gallery Festival at the Louvre Post Office

The Louvre Post Office
From November 14 to 22, 2026

Galerie Roussard is setting up the fourth edition of its urban and contemporary art festival at the Poste du Louvre, from November 14 to 22, 2026, with more than four hundred works, around twenty artists and live painting in the courtyard, with free access.

• Photo
• Free

Bruno Aveillan's "La Valise" exhibition at LV Dream: our photos and our review

LV DREAM
From November 13, 2026 to Spring 2027

From November 13, 2026, until spring 2027, Espace LV Dream will exhibit "La Valise" (The Suitcase), Bruno Aveillan's series dedicated to his Louis Vuitton Alzer suitcase, celebrating the 130th anniversary of the Monogram canvas. The exhibition, free with reservation, coincides with the publication of the book by Flammarion and Noir Éditions.

• Free
• Ethnic

Ndop exhibition, spinning blue to tell a world, at Maison Gacha

GACHA HOUSE
From October 21, 2026 to February 27, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 27, 2027, Maison Gacha is hosting a free exhibition dedicated to ndop, the indigo textile of western Cameroon. Ceremonial hangings, initiation costumes, and contemporary creations will be on display alongside workshops for families and adults.

• Free
• Discovery

Pegeen exhibition at the Durazzo gallery

DURAZZO
From October 19, 2026 to January 4, 2027

From October 19, 2026 to January 4, 2027, the Durazzo gallery is dedicating a free exhibition to Pegeen (1925-1967), daughter of collector Peggy Guggenheim. This is the first exhibition entirely devoted to her work in sixty years.

• Unavoidable
• With family

Exhibition "The Circus, a Factory of Modern Art" at the Montmartre Museum

MONTMARTRE MUSEUM
From October 16, 2026 to February 14, 2027

From October 16, 2026 to February 14, 2027, the Musée de Montmartre tells the story of how the circus, from 1873 to 1972, was the heart and soul of Montmartre. Just steps from the Bateau-Lavoir, modern artists found a repertoire of forms and light there.

• Free
• Discovery

José Castillo exhibition, Improbable Archipelago, at the Maison de l'Amérique latine

House of Latin America
From October 21, 2026 to January 15, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to January 15, 2027, the Maison de l'Amérique latine is dedicating a free exhibition to the Dominican artist José Castillo (1955-2018). Organized with the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, it brings together paintings, photographs, and collages curated by Vivian Braga dos Santos.

• Discovery
• With family

Cult Animal Exhibition at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon

MUSEUM OF CONFLUENCES
From October 16, 2026 to August 15, 2027

The Musée des Confluences in Lyon presents Animal culte from October 16, 2026 to August 15, 2027: three hundred and thirty objects and specimens to ask ourselves whether we live with animals or at their expense.

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Exhibition "I dreamed of another world" at the Frac Grand Large in Dunkirk

FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS-DE-FRANCE
From October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027

The Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, in Dunkirk, presents I dreamed of another world from October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027. More than a hundred works from its collection, from Lee Friedlander to Daniel Buren, treat light as a material.

• Classic

Fernand Léger exhibition, bodies in celebration, world in colours, at the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis

HENRI MATISSE DEPARTMENTAL MUSEUM
From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027, the Henri Matisse departmental museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis dedicates its first exhibition to Fernand Léger. Bold colors, bodies in motion and joie de vivre, with a dialogue with Nadia Léger.

• Discovery
• With family

Exhibition "Sea in Sight! Myths, Sciences and Maritime Adventures" at the Musée de l'Image in Épinal

MUSEUM OF THE IMAGE
From October 31, 2026 to May 23, 2027

The Musée de l’Image d’Épinal is dedicating its new temporary exhibition to the sea, from October 31, 2026 to May 23, 2027. Curated by Émilien Lefèvre, Sea in sight! brings together peddler’s images, ship models and scholarly plates from its collections, supplemented by loans from the Vodou Museum of Strasbourg and the Stanislas Library of Nancy.

Art and anarchy at the Roubaix swimming pool

LA PISCINE - ANDRÉ DILIGENT MUSEUM OF ART AND INDUSTRY
From October 10, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Neither God nor master. From Gustave Courbet to Banksy, La Piscine retraces a century and a half of art spent under the libertarian banner.

• Unusual
• With family

The Pink Diamond exhibition at the Château de Chantilly

CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY
From October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Stolen a hundred years ago from the Château de Chantilly and then found hidden in an apple, the Grand Condé, a pink diamond of more than 9 carats, comes out of its vault from October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027 for an exhibition devoted to its incredible story.

• Contemporary
• Unusual

Dan Flavin Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
From November 12, 2026 to April 4, 2027

A pink neon tube against a wall, and the whole room switches to color.

• Classic
• Discovery

Whistler Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

VAN GOGH MUSEUM
From October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is dedicating an exhibition to James McNeill Whistler, the American in London who wanted painting to be music and not a story.

• Unavoidable
• Classic

Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibition at the Museum of the Innocents, Florence

Museum of the Innocents
From October 21, 2026 to April 4, 2027

The Museum of the Innocents in Florence is dedicating an exhibition to Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine years, the most successful of her career, when she painted for the Medici.

• Drawing
• Discovery

Hokusai, The Wave and Others exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London presents "Hokusai, The Wave and Others." For the first time in the UK, the complete series of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, comprising forty-six prints in Prussian blue, is brought together.

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Light and Magic exhibition at Tate Modern

TATE MODERN
From October 14, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Tate Modern traces the birth of pictorialism, the first international movement to claim photography as an art form. More than fifty photographers, from Seoul to Sydney.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Dalí exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM
From October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings Dalí face to face with Freud, whom he only met once. Six sections show what the painter took from psychoanalysis, and what he subverted from it.