Revealed: Might twenty second, 2026
Summer season in Paris is at all times a pleasure, however for artwork lovers this yr it appears like a should. The cultural calendar is particularly wealthy this summer time, with main exhibitions, newly reopened museums and contemporary areas to find. After which there’s JR’s daring reimagining of the Pont Neuf, turning Paris’s oldest bridge into what is ready to be one of many yr’s most unforgettable moments. Even earlier than the set up is full, JR’s transformation of the bridge has already captured consideration world wide!
From Matisse’s colourful late works to Calder’s playful sense of motion, these are the sorts of cultural experiences value planning round. We’re sharing those we’ve marked on our calendar, with loads of inspiration for planning an art-filled Paris keep in considered one of our stunning trip leases.
JR’s La Caverne du Pont-Neuf
For only a few weeks this summer time, Paris’s oldest bridge will turn out to be one of many metropolis’s most talked-about modern artworks. From June 6 to twenty-eight, 2026, JR’s La Caverne du Pont-Neuf will flip the Pont Neuf right into a monumental momentary set up, created as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s legendary The Pont Neuf Wrapped. It’s a uncommon probability to expertise a well-known Paris landmark in a wholly new manner – the type of only-in-Paris second that’s really to not be missed.
Need to keep near the historic bridge and the center of the set up? Our La Place Dauphine trip leases put you simply steps from Pont Neuf, with considered one of Paris’s most charming squares proper exterior your door.
Matisse, 1941–1954 on the Grand Palais
One of many main exhibitions of the Paris season, Matisse, 1941–1954 is on view on the Grand Palais till July 26, 2026. Specializing in the ultimate years of Matisse’s profession, the exhibition brings collectively greater than 300 works, from work and drawings to cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles and stained glass. It’s a radiant have a look at Matisse’s lifelong ardour for inventing, experimenting and discovering new methods to specific colour and pleasure.
Our seventh arrondissement flats, comparable to Pomerol, make a go to simple with an attractive stroll alongside the Seine to Pont Alexandre III and simply throughout to the Grand Palais. Close by, Savoie is one other pretty alternative, with its spectacular Les Invalides view and chic stroll alongside the Esplanade towards the exhibition.
Calder: Rêver en équilibre at Fondation Louis Vuitton
At Fondation Louis Vuitton, Calder: Rêver en équilibre runs till August 16, 2026, celebrating each the centenary of Alexander Calder’s arrival in France and the fiftieth anniversary of his dying. With mobiles, stabiles, wire portraits, drawings, work and jewellery, the exhibition captures the sense of stability and motion that made Calder’s work so authentic. It’s a artistic summer time pairing, with Calder’s mobiles contained in the galleries and his bigger works exterior towards the backdrop of Frank Gehry’s sweeping Fondation Louis Vuitton. It’s the proper time to go to if you happen to haven’t but!
Michelangelo and Rodin on the Louvre
This is likely one of the strongest sculpture exhibitions of the summer time. On view by means of July 20, 2026, within the Corridor Napoléon on the Musée du Louvre, Michelangelo and Rodin: Residing Our bodies brings these two masters into dialogue by means of their shared fascination with the human determine. The exhibition appears on the physique not merely as kind, however as one thing animated by interior life, energy and emotion. Even if you happen to’ve visited many instances, it’s an excellent motive to return to the Louvre.
To remain inside strolling distance of the Louvre, our Place Dauphine leases are fantastically positioned simply throughout the Pont Neuf, with each Muscat and Castillon nonetheless providing a choice of prime summer time dates – although they’re filling shortly. Or keep simply throughout the Seine on the Left Financial institution at charming Banyuls within the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood.
Baroque Splendors at Musée Jacquemart-André
One in all our favourite smaller museums, Musée Jacquemart-André is displaying Baroque Splendors: From El Greco to Velázquez till August 2, 2026. Introduced in collaboration with the Hispanic Society of America in New York, the exhibition brings collectively round 40 works from the Spanish Golden Age, together with work by Velázquez, El Greco and Zurbarán. The setting makes it much more interesting for the reason that elegant non-public mansion is a masterpiece in itself.
Fondation Cartier’s New Palais-Royal Dwelling
For modern artwork lovers, Fondation Cartier’s new residence at 2 Place du Palais-Royal is a contemporary motive to spend time close to the Louvre and Palais-Royal this summer time. Opened in October 2025, the newly reworked area brings the Fondation’s assortment right into a historic Paris constructing redesigned by architect Jean Nouvel. Its inaugural Exposition Générale is on view by means of August 23, 2026, and presents the gathering on a fittingly grand scale.
A Romantic Paris Gem Reopens
One in all Paris’s most charming small museums has returned simply in time for summer time. The Musée de la Vie Romantique reopened on February 14, 2026, after intensive renovations to the previous residence and studios of painter Ary Scheffer. As soon as a gathering place for artists, writers and musicians of the Romantic period, the stunning museum gives a fantastically intimate have a look at Nineteenth-century Paris. The reopening exhibition, Face au ciel, Paul Huet en son temps, runs till August 30, 2026, whereas the museum’s backyard and tea room make it particularly charming for a summer time go to.
Renoir and Romance on the Musée d’Orsay
Talking of romance, early summer time can be the second to catch one of many yr’s main exhibitions on the Musée d’Orsay. On view till July 19, 2026, Renoir and Love: A Joyful Modernity (1865–1885) brings collectively lots of the artist’s biggest masterpieces in France for the primary time for the reason that final main Paris Renoir retrospective in 1985. With its give attention to affection, friendship and the social lifetime of late Nineteenth-century Paris, it’s an attractive addition to any art-filled go to to Paris.
For an attractive Left Financial institution keep close to the museum, Montrose and Prosecco are each set in an space we love between the sixth and seventh arrondissements, near the Musée d’Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and favourite central Paris sights.
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