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.
Leonora Carrington at the Musée du Luxembourg
The Musée du Luxembourg in Paris has dedicated a wonderful exhibition to the dream-like work of the British-Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais
“This Will Not End Well”, the touring Nan Goldin retrospective currently at the Grand Palais in Paris, channels half a century of creation into a sustained lament for the lost.
Turner and Constable at Tate Britain
To mark the 250th year of both artists' birth Tate Britain has organized a blockbuster exhibition dedicated to the work of Turner and Constable.
Tracey Emin at Tate Modern
Tate Modern has organized a large Tracey Emin retrospective. Her work is a testimony to the cathartic power of art.
Chiharu Shiota at the Hayward Gallery
Chiharu Shiota's immersive installations are highly photogenic, but the symbolism is a bit too obvious for me.
Further Reading
Solvej Balle’s time loop. Chantal Akerman’s predicament. Schubert’s imagination. György Kurtág at 100. Why rivers in the far north are turning orange. Coding after coders. U.S. rail service. Archimedes. László Krasznahorkai. Jürgen Habermas. And more.
Birds at the Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis has mounted a small but wonderful exhibition about humanity's fraught relationship with birds curated by The Goldfinch and the British writer and art historian Simon Schama.
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has organized an ambitious exhibition devoted to Ovid's "Metamorphoses", assembling roughly eighty exceptional works by the likes of Bernini, Caravaggio, Titian, Poussin, Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.