🌞 Art, Art, Art: It’s Paris Art Week!
A new selection of stuff to see, do and love in Paris this week. Celebrating Paris Makers and the strange, new, true & beautiful, forever!
Art Basel returns to the Grand Palais for an ambitious new edition (Fri 24–Sun 26). Think of it as a kind of sun around which a whole constellation of exhibitions, fairs, and other events transform Paris into the centre of the art universe for a few dazzling days – a few highlights below. The excitement is palpable!
✨ Exiting its beautiful site in the 14th, the Fondation Cartier inaugurates an immense new public exhibition space – also designed by Jean Nouvel – on the Place du Palais-Royal. The inaugural show Exposition Générale opens this weekend!
🚀 Paris’s museums and galleries are humming with exceptional shows:
A landmark Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton is not to be missed, coinciding with a gallery show at David Zwirner Paris, opening tonight.
Also tonight, at Thaddaeus Ropac Marais, Robert Rauschenberg’s sculptural Glut series (1986–94) opens alongside an exhibition devoted to Brancusi’s rarely seen photographic work.
Today, a brand-new art/retail project and ultimate gift shop, ITEM Idem, launches its first series of editions in collaboration with Performa NYC and Barbara Kruger, reactivating a 2017 performance with a special reissue of hoodies and T-shirts – now with French and Arabic translations.
From tomorrow, the Musée d’Orsay explores how Bridget Riley’s study of Georges Seurat shaped the Op artist’s practice.
As previously noted, the Bourse de Commerce devotes its latest show to Minimal art, while a major George Condo retrospective is underway at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
Next door at the Palais de Tokyo, ECHO DELAY REVERB. American Art, Francophone Thought opens Wed – a carte blanche by Naomi Beckwith, chief curator at the Guggenheim, New York.
Also opening Wed, at Lafayette Anticipations: Meriem Bennani, Sole Crushing – a ballet-symphony-riot of flip-flops and slippers.
🪐 Art Basel’s free public program unfolds across nine venues, including The Innocent by Ugo Rondinone in front of the Institut de France; tomorrow, Harry Nuriev’s Objets Trouvés opens at the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, and Program Partner Miu Miu returns to the Palais d’Iéna with Helen Marten’s 30 Blizzards - already booked out!
☄️ And finally, coinciding with Art Basel, a whole bunch of other art fairs pop up around town, including Design Miami Paris returning for its 3rd iteration, and this year Paris Internationale takes over the Rond-point des Champs-Élysées, adjacent to Art Basel.