The Wings of Peace: ORLAN, Esther Ferrer, Oleg Kulik, Léa Le Bricomte and Émeric Lhuisset Open in Paris
A group show on war and peace opened in Paris on 19 October 2026 and runs to 31 October, alongside Art Basel Paris. Honargardi was at the opening.
Rembrandt and the Ancients: The Met and the Louvre Announce a Major Exhibition for 2027–2028
The Met has announced, with the Louvre, an exhibition on Rembrandt’s lifelong engagement with antiquity: New York in 2027–28, Paris in 2028.
Voyage en cuisine iranienne: A Tasting Lecture at ARTE’s Et maintenant ? Festival
At the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, the food geographer Pierre Raffard led a tasting lecture on Iranian cuisine, built around dishes from the restaurant Namak.
Namak’s Founders on Cooking Persian Food for Paris
Rod Pourcyrus and Arthur Comte, the co-founders of the Paris restaurant Namak, on adapting Persian cuisine to French tastes.
The 90s at Tate Britain: Edward Enninful Restages the Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, guest-curated by Edward Enninful, brings nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers into one room-by-room argument: that in 1990s Britain, art and fashion became a single cultural force.
Sculpting Colour at the Louvre: Spain’s Painted Saints Step Out of Zurbarán’s Shadow
Twenty-three polychrome wood sculptures from Valladolid’s national museum, among them a complete life-size processional paso by Gregorio Fernández, open in the Hall Napoléon beside the Zurbarán retrospective. The pairing is the point.
Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her
The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon
From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.
André Teymouri on Painting Men Who Don’t Exist
André Teymouri paints from a small set of fragments — a jawline glimpsed on the subway, a beard seen on the street, a stranger’s photo on Instagram — and lets them settle into a face that belongs to no one in particular. The men in his paintings are bearded, broad-shouldered, often shirtless, and almost always […]