Paris Archives

George Condo to open major exhibitions in Paris + Palo Alto

20 July 2026 • Mark Westall

George Condo will present major exhibitions in Paris and Palo Alto, launching his first projects with Hauser & Wirth since rejoining the gallery.

FAD NEWS: Post-Fair expands to Paris with first European edition during Art Basel Paris

13 July 2026 • Mark Westall

Post-Fair launches in Paris, bringing 34 international galleries together during Art Basel Paris with its alternative exhibition-led fair model.

FAD NEWS: Paris gets LARGE – a major new 50,000+ sq ft contemporary art centre opens this autumn

7 July 2026 • Mark Westall

Large, a major new contemporary art centre on Paris’s Île Seguin, opens with an ambitious inaugural exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani

FAD NEWS: Martin Margiela sends his personal archive out into the world

6 July 2026 • Mark Westall

Martin Margiela is releasing more than 200 objects from his personal archive in a landmark Paris auction, spanning his career from 1984 to 2008

FAD NEWS: Pictet Group becomes official partner of Paris Photo with dedicated Prix Pictet exhibition

30 June 2026 • Mark Westall

Pictet Group has been named the official partner of Paris Photo, with Prix Pictet receiving a dedicated exhibition at the Grand Palais during the 2026 fair.

Julio Le Parc at Tate Modern: A Celebration of Light, Movement and Participation

8 June 2026 • Mark Westall

Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action. is both a major retrospective and a timely tribute to one of the great pioneers of kinetic and participatory art.

Inside Elsa Sahal’s Studio, Following Her Art Prize Win

28 May 2026 • Olena Yara

Following her Her Art Prize win at Art Paris 2026, French sculptor Elsa Sahal speaks about clay, movement, fragility and pushing the limits of ceramics.

FAD News: JR transforms Paris’s oldest bridge into a monumental cave in tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude

22 May 2026 • mark westall

JR transforms Paris’ oldest bridge with La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a monumental public artwork paying tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Gagosian Brings Francis Bacon’s Late Paintings into Focus in Paris

7 April 2026 • Mark Westall

Gagosian presents three major late paintings by Francis Bacon in Paris, exploring the intensity and formal clarity of his final works.

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Waddington Custot to open in Paris ahead of Art Basel Paris

23 July 2025 • Mark Westall

This Parisian presence reflects renewed ambition to be as close as possible to international collectors and major cultural institutions

Paris+ par Art Basel has revealed an expanded, citywide public program for 2023.

13 July 2023 • Mark Westall

Paris+ par Art Basel has revealed an expanded, citywide public program for its 2023 edition, including new locations, institutional collaborations, as well as participating artists and curators.

Christian De Portzamparc’s latest spaces are conceptual, not physical

6 January 2020 • Herbert Wright

The dark canvases in the show Illuminations have such an extraordinary clarity, it’s as if a camera had been taken into someone’s dreams.

Rising in the East? Chinese Abstraction

30 October 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

The western profile and marketability of contemporary Asian art has risen sharply in recent years, principally through the Japanese Gutai (‘concrete’) and Mona-ha (‘school of things’) and the Korean Dansaekhwa (‘monochrome painting’) schools, with their distinctive titles

Golden Fiac

23 October 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

If the various editions of Frieze and Art Basel are the market leaders in fairs, then FIAC in Paris (16-20 Oct) is not far behind.

Marroni-Ouanely playful performances teach us to fail, at PUBLIC Gallery

7 February 2019 • Irene Machetti

The Italian-French duo Marroni-Ouanely’s debut UK solo exhibition at PUBLIC Gallery is full of unorthodox imperfections. Sit back, smile, and enjoy.

The Arcade Project opens its doors with Goia Mujalli’s exhibition Biribà

24 August 2018 • Irene Machetti

Anna Skladmann’s new art space to display its first project in collaboration with the Brazilian artist Goia Mujalli. Biribà will be at The Arcade Project, in the Whitelys Centre, until the 5th September.

Winners of the #MyFLV architecture photography contest announced.

12 July 2018 • Mark Westall

To celebrate the fourth year since its public opening and to recognise the millions of visitors who have been inspired by its striking beauty, Fondation Louis Vuitton organised a contest on the theme of its architecture prompting visitors to share their best photos of Frank Gehry’s iconic building

A Study in Scarlet: Conceived as a nebula of works revolving around Cosey Fanni Tutti’s artistic legacy.

16 May 2018 • Mark Westall

A Study in Scarlet was conceived as a nebula of works revolving around Cosey Fanni Tutti’s artistic legacy, looking at its influences (Beat Generation, Fluxus), companions (COUM Transmissions, Monte Cazazza) and contemporaries.

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Saint Laurent Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera

3 December 2017 • Mark Westall

We Love Saint Laurent’s collab with Polaroid for their iconic SX-70 instant camera.

New Jeff Koons sculpture is tribute to victims of Paris attacks

23 November 2016 • Mark Westall

Bouquet of Tulips, currently being built, is to be installed on the plaza outside the Museum of Modern Art next year

The magnificent Musée Rodin reopens in Paris – with a chocolate surprise

8 November 2015 • Mark Westall

It was a ruin when he lived there, then nearly ruined by millions of trampling tourists after his death. Now the Musée Rodin has been playfully vamped up – and it’s even got a giant chocolate tribute to France’s most famous sculptor

Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 114: ’A Hundred Women Wanted’

16 June 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent

Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in London. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?