EXHIBITIONS

Paris Photo marks the bicentenary of photography at the Grand Palais while the age of generative artificial intelligence forces an old medium to defend its authority anew. A photograph has never been the truth itself. It is a choice made inside a frame: where to stand, when to release the shutter, what to exclude and, later, which image to publish. Yet for most of its two-hundred-year history, photography possessed a special authority. Light had touched a surface. Something,

Tucked into the desert landscape of northwest Las Vegas, the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum is an unexpected cultural treasure. Discover the extraordinary artistic legacy of a woman whose lifelong passion for painting, sculpture, and experimentation created a museum unlike any other in the city.

At the Quai d’Orsay, contemporary creation will not merely decorate the historic salons—it will become part of France’s diplomatic language. For four days in October, the rooms normally associated with state visits, international negotiations and the rituals of French diplomacy will host a different kind of exchange. From October 20 through October 23, 2026, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs will open the historic salons of the Hôtel du Ministre for PASSAGES

From October 1 through November 30, 2026, six monumental reproductions of works from the Getty Museum’s collection are being displayed at public locations across Paris and nearby Sèvres. The initiative was developed with L’Art dans la Ville, which uses urban settings to introduce art to audiences beyond traditional museum spaces.

Collectible design changes when it enters an old house. A chair ceases to be an isolated silhouette; a lamp begins a conversation with the room it illuminates. Materials acquire new associations beside carved stone, historic paneling and a garden formed centuries before the object itself existed. That dialogue will animate the fourth edition of Design Miami Paris, taking place from October 20 through October 25, 2026, at the Hôtel de Maisons, 51 rue de l’Université in Paris.

Carlotta Corpron’s experimental photographs reveal how disciplined inquiry transformed light from a means of illumination into the subject of modern art.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs reveals how fashion moves from the commercial world into cultural memory and why conservation is itself a form of craftsmanship.

There is something quietly extraordinary about a masterpiece leaving the museum with which it has become identified. It is removed from its familiar gallery, carefully examined and documented, packed for an ocean crossing, and entrusted for a time to another institution and another audience. On September 26, 2026, twenty-six works from the Musée du Louvre will complete precisely such a journey when From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art opens at the Smithsonian’s Nation

History feels different when it is encountered through the objects people once held, the newspapers they read, the places where they gathered and the ideas they left behind. On August 23, FQM Washington, D.C. Correspondent Dr. Bruno Mazali attended The Marcus Garvey Royal Collection, a historical exhibition presented by the Heritage Gallery UNIA-International Museum and Archive in Washington, D.C. The gathering became part of a broader encounter with African American history;