There are 8 exhibitions on in Paris worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 28 July 2026
29 April to 16 August 2026
The first monographic show in Paris devoted to Segantini: some sixty paintings, pastels and drawings, and his mountains, which are not landscape but an almost religious search he pursued until it killed him, at forty one.
6 May to 30 August 2026
She was painting abstraction years before Kandinsky, and asked that it stay unseen until twenty years after her death. The Paintings for the Temple cycle comes to France for the first time, the Ten Largest included. Book this one first.
19 May to 13 September 2026
Hand coloured photographs, in the manner of mid century Egyptian studio portraits, inside the museum of French nineteenth century art. A contrast that says a lot about how recent the idea is that photography must be faithful.
4 June to 31 October 2026
The largest French retrospective on Versace since 1986: nearly 450 pieces of clothing, accessories, drawings and archive material. Fashion treated as art history, which is more or less how Versace looked at antiquity.
3 July to 8 November 2026
Ingres painted fabric with a tailor’s precision, and that precision has been argued over for two centuries. Here his portraits are read from the side of the clothes, which in the nineteenth century said as much about a sitter as the face.
11 June 2026 to 10 January 2027
The Louvre’s Roman collection reread as a system of images: propaganda, family memory and furnishing all at once. If Rome is also on your list, this is the show that makes the rest legible.
19 June 2026 to 24 January 2027
Three Islamic empires set side by side through the Louvre’s collections, at the moment when they were watching and copying one another. The kind of show that dismantles the idea of separate national styles.
20 May 2026 to 15 March 2027
Water as Mesopotamia understood it: origin of the world, resource to be administered, and threat. An archaeological show about irrigation and drought that reads as a comment on the present without ever saying so.
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.