As Art Basel Paris draws the global art world to the French capital, the city’s museums are throwing open their doors to some of the year’s most anticipated exhibitions. From a spotlight on pioneering art dealer Berthe Weill at Musée de l’Orangerie to the much anticipated grand opening of Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier, there’s something for every art lover.
Here are our top picks of what to see in the City of Light.
Echo Delay Reverb: American Art, Francophone Thought
Palais de Tokyo, October 22, 2025–February 15, 2026
This wide-ranging exhibition dives deep into the French intellectual currents that have shaped U.S. art since the 1970s, particularly the revolutionary ideas of Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, and Frantz Fanon, among others. Organized by curator Naomi Beckwith, the show puts works by seminal artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cindy Sherman, Hans Haacke, and Pope.L in conversation with new commissions by the next generation of makers and thinkers, including Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Cici Wu.
The group show accompanies a solo retrospective exhibition by American sculptor Melvin Edwards—his first in France—continuing the theme of Franco-American artistic exchange. The shows kick off Palais de Tokyo’s fall season and are free to visit with no reservation necessary on October 22 and 23.
—Margaret Carrigan
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