13 unmissable art exhibitions in 2013
Plus one for the superstitious
Marc Chagall, 'Le Paysage bleu', 1949 © Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal / © Adagp, Paris 2012, Chagall
If you're an art buff planning a trip to Paris, or a local wanting to fill your calendar for the year ahead with the best the city's galleries has to offer, look no further. These blockbuster art shows will be the talk of the town in 2013.
The best art to see in Paris in 2013
Hey ! Modern art & pop culture
- Critics choice
The underground is back. After the success of the 2011 show ‘Hey!’, the founders of the eponymous magazine are once again taking over the glass Halle Saint-Pierre, with a selection of artists who are as enticing, smart...
- 2 rue Ronsard, 18e
- Until Fri Aug 23
Chagall, entre guerre et paix
- Critics choice
The Musée du Luxembourg takes a unique approach to the works of Russian painter Marc Chagall, focusing their retrospective on his artistic evolution through times of war and peace. During his life, Chagall...
- 19 rue de Vaugirard, 6e
- Until Sun Jul 21
De l'Allemagne, 1800-1939
- Critics choice
As it turns its gaze towards Germany, the Louvre looks into a question as complex as it is fascinating: the affirmation of national sentiment in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The phenomenon in Germany...
- Rue de Rivoli
- Until Mon Jun 24
Dynamo
- Critics choice
A show that shines, shivers and glows comes to the Grand Palais in spring, celebrating the conceptual and visual fireworks of ‘perceptual art’, which takes a malicious pleasure in confusing the viewer...
- 3 avenue du Général Eisenhower, 8e
- Until Mon Jul 22
Ron Mueck
The Cartier Foundation offers another round of the sensational and spectacular with their second exhibition devoted to Ron Mueck (the last one was in 2005), which will occupy the Jean Nouvel edifice...
- 261 boulevard Raspail, 14e
- Until Sun Sep 29
Keith Haring, 'The Political Line'
- Critics choice
Often spoken of in the same breath as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Jenny Holzer, the American Keith Haring, who died in 1990...
- 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 16e
- Until Sun Aug 18
Lorna Simpson
A photographer and video artist focused on the condition of being a black American woman, Lorna Simpson has been working her alchemy for the last 30 years; exploring collective memory and the notion of identity...
- 1 place de la Concorde, 8e
- Until Sun Sep 1
Roy Lichtenstein, 'Une rétrospective'
Lichtenstein’s paintings have long been recognizable and accessible to museum audiences. Developed in the early ’60s, his signature style elevated comic-book graphic techniques to high art. But the exhibition, curated...
- Rue Saint-Martin, 4e
- Wed Jul 3 - Mon Nov 4
Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera
In an exhibition all set to dominate the Autumn art season for 2013, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera will be side by side on the walls of the Musée de l’Orangerie – a reunion as rare as it is exciting...
- Jardin des Tuileries, 1er
- Wed Oct 9 - Mon Jan 13
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