Baroque Splendors at the Musée Jacquemart-André
The exhibition "Baroque Splendors. From El Greco to Velázquez" features around forty paintings on loan from the Hispanic Society of America in New York including some real gems.
Further Reading
Curiosity is the new edge. How the brain builds sentences. How academic age influences creativity. A human history of the Sahara. New forms of ice. Marcel Duchamp. Agnes Varda. Marilyn Monroe. Thomas Mann. And more.
Comics Speak Cash at the Monnaie de Paris
The Monnaie de Paris has organized a fascinating exhibition exploring a popular theme in many comic books: money, whether in the form of a treasure hunt, a gang of thieves or a plutocrat.
Daido Moriyama at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris celebrates the work of Daido Moriyama with an exhibition centered around Moriyama's obsession with the medium of photography.
Jill Lepore: These Truths
Jill Lepore's “These Truths” is probably the best single-volume history of the United States currently available.
Bellezza e Bruttezza at BOZAR
"Bellezza e Bruttezza" at BOZAR in Brussels explores the aesthetic ideals that guided Renaissance artists, bringing together well-known works from the likes of Titian, Botticelli, Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder, and combining them with lesser-known, and therefore all the more interesting, works.
Further Reading
Half of social science research doesn't replicate. In defense of algebra. Neuroplasticity. Exotic particles. Human cooperation. Functional brain organization. Manet and Morisot. Willem de Kooning. Bumble bees. G. And more.
Matisse at the Grand Palais
The Grand Palais, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, has organized a magnificent exhibition devoted to Matisse's final years, the period between 1941 and 1954.
Renoir and Love at the Musée d’Orsay
Renoir and Love. A Joyful Modernity at the Musée d’Orsay is quite possibly the largest Renoir exhibition of the decade. It is indeed a joy to behold.
Henri Rousseau at the Musée de l’Orangerie
The Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris managed to secure some exceptional loans for its wonderful Henri Rousseau retrospective.
Clair-obscur at the Bourse de Commerce
The Pinault Collection's latest exhibition, Clair-obscur, assembles roughly hundred works by 27 artists that meditate on the darkness of our present time. Pierre Huyghe's "Camata" and Sigmar Polke's "Axial Age" alone make it worth visiting.
Martin Parr at the Jeu de Paume
It doesn't happen often that I spontaneously burst out laughing in a museum, but it happened twice during my visit to the Martin Parr exhibition at the Jeu de Paume.