Notre-Dame reopens before the end of the year (read our article about it here) and the work that’s been done on both the building and its contents is truly impressive. This new exhibition near our hotels, organised by DRAC Île-de-France and Mobilier national, presents masterpieces saved from the fire and now restored, notably twenty-one large format paintings, a wall hanging of the life of Virgin Mary, the huge tapis de Savonnerie carpet gifted to the cathedral by King Charles X and other remarkable objects. DRAC Île-de-France / David Bordes While the fire at Notre-Dame did not destroy ..read more

Known for its incredible permanent collection of Monet paintings, the Marmottan Museum also organises some very interesting temporary exhibitions. For their latest, with the Olympics being held in Paris, the on-brand theme is En jeu! Artists and Sport (1870-1930) looking at 60 years of sport in art from impressionism to cubism, with an impressive selection of over one hundred works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bourdelle, Degas, Monet, Courbet, Caillebotte, Renoir, Rodin, Sisley and more. Just months before the opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, sport has infused everything in the ..read more

The Quai Branly Museum, close to our hotels, would like to tell you all about the main temple of the Mexica Empire (1325-1521), following research conducted under Mexico City in 1978. In the exhibition Mexica – Offerings and Gods at the Templo Mayor, articles found during the digs are being shown in Europe for the very first time. When the local electricity company was digging under Mexico City in February 1978, they didn’t expect to find remains of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. It was an important discovery – archeological excavation continued for the following fifty years, revealing i ..read more

Get up close and personal with two of the most important artists of the 18th century – Ingres and Delacroix – through their personal objects in this new exhibition at the Delacroix Museum, near our hotels, that has reopened after six month of works. Artists express themselves through their art, but one can also learn more about them through they objects they choose to surround themselves with. Or so says this new exhibition Ingres et Delacroix, objets d’artistes. A tobacco pot in the form of a fish belonging to Delacroix and his ceramic ink pot he brought back from the city of Fez in 1832 ..read more

The Cluny Museum, just a few minutes away from our hotels, has just opened its second exhibition of the spring – Merveilleux Trésor d’Oignies : Éclats du 13e siècle (Marvellous Treasures of Oignies: 13th century radiance), with an extraordinary collection of gold and silverware that has never been seen before outside of Belgium. The treasures of Hugo d’Oignies are so special, they are recognised as one of the seven marvels of Belgium! This rare collection dating from the 13th century was actually given to the King Baudouin Foundation only recently (in 2010) by the Sisters of Notre-Dame ..read more

In 2021 the French Ministry of Culture launched a vast arts project, selecting 200 photographers for what they called la Grande commande photojournalisme (literally, The Large Photojournalism Order) with a designated theme – Snapshot of France: visions of a country having traversed a pandemic. It turned out to be the biggest governmental photo project in Europe, with a budget of 5.46 million euros. The exhibition France in Their Eyes – 200 photographers look at the 2020s at the French National Library (not far from our hotels) shows 450 photos from the project, selected from the 2,000 brand n ..read more

Paris’ Fashion Museum has a new exhibition of the famous Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, with 50 years of iconic imagery on view – the first ever Parisian exhibition of his work. Born in Italy but a Paris resident since 1973, Paolo Roversi created his own style of fashion photography over the years, using odd colours (thanks to innovative development techniques), blurring effetcs (from long exposures) and a hybrid of black & white and sepia tones that make his work unique. You probably know his photos from the biggest fashion magazines, showcasing the most famous models wearing cloth ..read more

Exploring the extraordinary artistic verve during the reign of Charles VII (1422-1461), this new exhibition at the Cluny Museum (very close to our hotels) is the first retrospective to look at this intermediary period which saw the emergence of a new style of art with Dutch and Italian influences. Imagine yourself in France in 1420, during the pendant la Hundred Years’ War. Political instability is provoking mutations in the arts, with Flemish-style realism and a progressive distancing from the gothic. In many senses, it is the beginning of the Renaissance. The exhibition Les arts en France ..read more

Just in time for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the Luxembourg Museum (just a couple of minutes away from our hotels) is opening a new exhibition Design & Sport – A Story Looking to the Future, showing how design has helped sportswomen and men to reach ever better achievements, going faster, further, higher… If the link between design and sports had never crossed your minds, this new exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum is going to be an eye-opener! With over 150 objects on display in a presentation curated and designed by designer Konstantin Grcic, you’ll see legacy pieces and modern-day ..read more

Photographer and publisher Philippe Cicchero presents 8 x 10″ but not only… at the gallery of the Hotel & Spa la Belle Juliette, photos of Parisian architecture taken mostly with a 8×10″ film camera, but also (which explains the title) Polaroid® 600 shots on different special films stock… © Philippe Cicchero Photographer and publisher Philippe Cicchero is fascinated by special film and unusual development techniques, as well as old and ‘basic’ cameras supposedly too simple for fine photography. But the random aspect introduced by using these elements is exactly what he is interested in, as ..read more