Beaux Arts Magazine surveys the current blockbuster exhibition season in Paris, highlighting major shows including Alexander Calder's expansive retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a Lee Miller survey at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Henri Matisse and Hilma af Klint exhibitions at the Grand Palais, a Renoir double show at the Musée d'Orsay, and retrospectives of Leonora Carrington at the Musée du Luxembourg and street art at the Grande Halle de la Villette. The article provides critical appraisals of each exhibition, praising the Calder show's immersive presentation of his mobiles, stabiles, and the rare Cirque Calder, while noting the biographical depth of the Lee Miller exhibition organized with Tate Britain and the Art Institute of Chicago.
This roundup matters because it captures the extraordinary density and diversity of Paris's current museum programming, which spans modern masters, overlooked surrealists, pioneering women photographers, and contemporary abstraction. The article serves as a practical guide for art enthusiasts navigating a season that juxtaposes canonical figures like Matisse and Renoir with rediscovered talents like Hilma af Klint and Leonora Carrington, reflecting broader institutional efforts to diversify art historical narratives and attract international audiences to the French capital.