The city's most prestigious fine arts school resides in what remains of the 17th-century Couvent des Petits-Augustins, the 18th-century Hôtel de Chimay, some 19th-century...

You 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...

Denise René has remained committed to kinetic art, Op art and geometrical abstraction by Soto et al, ever since Jean Tinguely first presented his machines here in the 1950s.

Galerie Downtown draws on François Laffanour's reputation as one of the most respected dealers in Paris, with French and US modern classics by the Charlotte Perriand, Jean...

Interesting 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...

After bursting on to the St-Germain art scene with shows by fashion photography crossovers David LaChapelle and Ellen von Unwerth and filmmaker Larry Clark, and introducing...

Exploring the common ground between functional and artistic design, Didier Krzentowski's Galerie Kréo, which has moved from the 13th to join the St-Germain design hub,...

Liliane Vincy, daughter of the founder, is one of the few characters to retain something of the old St-Germain spirit and a sense of 1970s Fluxus-style happenings. Interesting...

Loevenbruck injected a dose of humour into St-Germain with artists - Virginie Barré, Bruno Peinado and Olivier Blankaert, and Philippe Mayeux - who treat conceptual concerns...

Fabienne Leclerc consistently impresses with the quality of installations from a set of highly individual artists, including Mark Dion, known for his interest in zoology and...

Find cult metal lamps by Serge Mouille and 1950s art pottery by George Jouve, as well as pieces by Roger Tallon, the designer of the TGV train.

The 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...

Dina Vierny was 15 when she met Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) and became his principal model for the next decade, idealised in such sculptures as Spring, Air and Harmony. In...