Jean Nouvel's glass and steel building, an exhibition centre with Cartier's offices above, is as much a work of art as the installations inside. Shows by artists and...
261 bd RaspailThe Musée d'Orsay follows a chronological route, from the ground floor to the upper level and then to the mezzanine, showing links between Impressionist painters and their...
1 rue de la Légion-d'HonneurWorks by the Russian-born Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine are displayed around this tiny house and garden near the Jardin du Luxembourg. Zadkine's works cover musical,...
100bis rue d'AssasAs in large swathes of the rest of Paris, there are changes afoot at the Louvre. Work continues on the new Islamic Arts department, which should open in 2010; when it does, it...
Rue de RivoliWhen Constantin Brancusi died in 1957, he left his studio and its contents to the state, and it was later moved and rebuilt by the Centre Pompidou. His fragile works in wood...
Piazza BeaubourgYou walk up a winding garden path to get to this museum, founded by Jean Dubuffet, wine merchant and master of art brut, a decade before his death in 1985. The foundation...
137 rue de SèvresInteresting conceptual work in all media includes the likes of American provocateur Paul McCarthy, Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson and a clutch of French thirty- and...
36 rue de SeineThe Cologne gallery's smart Paris outpost is the venue for retrospective displays of top-ranking artists: think big names rather than risk taking. Jannis Kounellis, Louise...
5 rue DebelleymeThis open-air sculpture museum by the Seine fights a constant battle against graffiti. Still, it's a pleasant enough, if traffic-loud, place for a stroll. Most of the works are...
Quai St-BernardThis cosy museum houses a collection put together in the early 1900s by La Samaritaine founder Ernest Cognacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay. They stuck mainly to 18th-century...
Hôtel DononThe Musée des Années 30 shows what a lot of second-rate art was produced in the 1930s, though there are decent modernist sculptures by the Martel brothers, graphic designs, and...
Espace LandowskiThe Rodin museum occupies the hôtel particulier where the sculptor lived in the final years of his life. The Kiss, the Cathedral, the Walking Man, portrait busts and early...
Hôtel Biron