September marks the beginning of la rentrée (back to school) i.e. the awakening of a very sleepy Paris. After an entire month of vacances, the parisians finally yawned their way back to town and are now ready for all the art and entertainment Paris has to offer.
Here are the five exhibitions I’m personally very much looking forward to see, in no particular order :
L’âge d’or de la peinture anglaise (The golden age of english painting), Musée du Luxembourg, until Feb. 16th 2020
– shows masterpieces of the 18th and 19th c. kindly loaned by the Tate Britain.
Morderne Maharadjah, un mécène des années 30 (modern maharadja, a patron of the arts in the 1930s), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, from Sept. 26th til Jan. 12th 2020
– to see the Maharadja of Indore’s colletion of objects and furnitures used to decorate the first modernist building of his country: the Manik Bagh Palace.
Marie-Antoinette, métamorphoses d’une image (Marie-Antoinette, metamorphosis of an image), Conciergerie, from Oct. 16th til Jan. 26th 2020
– the most famous queen of France and how the people have perceived her throughout the centuries.
Tolkien, voyage en Terre du Milieu (Tolkien, voyage to Middle-Earth), Bibliothèque Nationale Française, from Oct. 22nd til Feb. 16th 2020
– the biggest French retrospective on Tolkien, themed on the magical geography of his works.
L’oeil et la nuit (the eye and the night), Institut des Cultures d’Islam
– exploring the multi-facetted vision we have of the night, by artists from Europe, Africa and the Middle-East.
The Art Gazette 