Michaël de Saint-Cheron

Malraux, fifty years on

The rebirth of the Musée Bonnat-Helleu Musée Bonnat-Helleu (https://mbh.bayonne.fr/), 5 rue Jacques-Laffitte, 64100 Bayonne. Barthélémy Etchegoyen-Glama, Sophie Flouquet, and Stéphane Guégan, Musée Bonnat-Helleu. Musée d’arts de Bayonne, Beaux-arts éditions, 2025, 84 pages, €14.50.

Louise Nevelson or the fourth dimension “Louise Nevelson – Mrs. N’s Palace”, Centre Pompidou-Metz (www.centrepompidou-metz.fr), 1 parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme, 57000 Metz, until August 31. Anne Horvath (ed.), with Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Marquié, Maria Nevelson, Laureen Picaut, Capucine Poncet, Elyse Speaks, Laurie Wilson, Louise Nevelson. Mrs. N’s Palace (catalogue), Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2026, 208 pages, €39.

Time suspended between heaven and earth “Entre ciel et terre”, Giovanni Sarti Gallery, 137 faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, until April 3. Marco Ciamponi, Gianni Papi, and Emanuele Zappasodi, Entre ciel et terre, translated from the Italian, Giovanni Sarti Gallery, catalog no. 18, 2026, 120 pages.

Eva Jospin, on the universality of art “Grottesco”, Grand Palais (www.grandpalais.fr), galerie 9, porte Clarence-Dillon côté Seine, until March 15. Eva Jospin, Grottesco (Grand-Palais RMN éditions, 2025), 240 pages, 177 illustrations, €45. Jean Giono, L’homme qui plantait des arbres (Gallimard, 2025), 96 pages illustrated with works by Eva Jospin, €35. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Les universels du Louvre, preface by Laurence des Cars, “La chaire du Louvre” collection (Albin Michel, 2025), 240 pages, €22.90.

“When one paints, thought is painting” “Gerhard Richter”, Fondation Louis-Vuitton (www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr), 8 avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, 75116 Paris, until March 2. Suzanne Pagé, Dieter Schwarz, and Nicholas Serota (eds.), Gerhard Richter, (catalog), Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025, 416 pages, €49.90. Éric de Chassey, Donner à voir, Images de Birkenau, Gallimard, “Art et artistes” collection, 2024, 96 pages, €20. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Entretiens avec Gerhard Richter, Seuil, “Fiction & Cie” collection, 2025, 214 pages, €20.90.

Vieira da Silva: Mirroring passages and memories “Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Anatomy of Space”, Guggenheim Museum (www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus), Bilbao (Spain), until February 22. Flavia Frigeri (ed.), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Anatomy of Space (catalog), Peggy Guggenheim, “Marsilio Arte,” 2025, 192 pages, €45. *** “Denise Colomb, portraits intimes”, Château du Val Fleury (www.ville-gif.fr), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, until December 14.

How art engages the absent and the ghostly. Le parfum des absents, Florian Mermin exhibition, Palais idéal du Facteur Cheval (www.facteurcheval.com), 8 rue du Palais, 26390 Hauterives, until November 11. Ghosts, visualizing the supernatural, Kunstmuseum (https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/), Basel, until March 8, 2026. Eva Reifert (curator), Geister - Ghosts (catalog), Kunstmuseum Basel – Christoph Merian Verlag, 2025, 136 pages, 93 illustrations, €20.

A sacred and iconoclastic alliance “Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén”, exhibition at the Grand Palais (www.grandpalais.fr), avenue Winston-Churchill, 75008 Paris, until January 4, 2026. Sophie Duplaix (ed.), Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén (catalog), Grand Palais RMN éditions - Centre Pompidou, 2025, 336 pages, 440 illustrations, €45. Sophie Duplaix (ed.), Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén (exhibition diary), Grand Palais RMN éditions - Centre Pompidou, 2025, 24 pages, €6.

Andrea Emo, Lettres à Cristina Campo. Translated from Italian by Christophe Carraud. Éditions Conférence, “Lettres d'Italie” series, 2025, 112 pages, €18. Suprématie et malédiction. Journal philosophique 1973. Translated from Italian and with a foreword by Arnaud Clément. Afterword by Laura Sanò. Éditions Conférence, “Lettres d'Italie,” 2025, 224 pages, €24.

The “Mona Lisa of manuscripts.” Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Musée de Condé, Château de Chantilly, until October 5. Mathieu Deldicque ed., Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (catalog), Château de Chantilly – In Fine éditions d’art, 2025, 496 pages, 460 illustrations, €59.

Kim En Joong’s stained glass windows on show at Chambord. “Kim En Joong: Couleurs de l’invisible”, exhibition at the Château de Chambord (www.chambord.org), in the Loir-et-Cher region, until August 31. Jean-François Lagier (ed.), Kim En Joong: Couleurs de l’invisible (catalog), Domaine national de Chambord, 2025, 44 pages, €10.50.

Artemisia, remarkable woman and artist Artemisia, héroïne de l’art, Musée Jacquemart-André (www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com), 158 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, until August 3. Patrizia Cavazzini, Maria Cristina Terzaghi , and Pierre Curie(eds.), Artemisia, héroïne de l’art (catalog), Musée Jacquemart-André - Culturespaces - Fonds Mercator, 2025, 208 pages, €40.

Art after the camps

What can art do against barbarism?

From "degenerate" art to a crime against humanity "L’art 'dégénéré' : le procès de l’art moderne sous le nazisme", exhibition at the Musée Picasso (www.museepicassoparis.fr), 75003 Paris, until May 25. Johan Popelard (ed.), L'art 'dégénéré', le procès de l'art moderne sous le nazisme (catalog), Musée Picasso Paris - Grand Palais Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN) éditions, 2025, 256 pages, €39.

Françoise Pétrovitch, in Vevey "Françoise Pétrovitch, de l'absence", Musée Jenisch Vevey (https://museejenisch.ch/), CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland), until May 25. Nathalie Chaix and Anne Deltour (eds.), Françoise Pétrovitch, de l'absence or Von der Abwesenheit (bilingual French and German catalog), Musée Jenisch Vevey - Scheidegger & Spiess, 2025, 136 pages, CHF 35 (with contributions by Nathalie Chaix, Anne Deltour, Niklaus Manuel Güdel, Yves Guignard, Aude Robert-Tissot, and an interview with Françoise Pétrovitch).

Geneviève Asse’s blue alongside Soulages’s signature black

The Senn family and Le Havre “The Senn Family: Collectors and Patrons”, Museum of Modern Art André Malraux (www.muma-lehavre.fr), Le Havre, until February 16. Géraldine Lefebvre and Michaël Debris (eds.), Les Senn, collectionneurs et mécènes (catalog), MuMa - Octopus édition, 2024, 280 pages, €30.

In the beginning, there was madness “Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics” exhibition, Musée du Louvre (www.louvre.fr), Paris, until February 3, 2025. Élisabeth Antoine-König and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam (eds.), assisted by Christine Chabod and Vincent Rousseau, Figures du fou, du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques (catalog), Musée du Louvre - Gallimard, 2024, 456 pages, €45. “Le fou, du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques,” Grande Galerie, no. 68, autumn 2024, 108 pages, €8.50.

Yves Beigbeder (1946-2024) From India to Ethiopia

The arts of exile

Exils, regards d’artistes, exhibition at the Musée du Louvre-Lens (www.louvrelens.fr), until January 20. Dominique de Font-Réaulx (ed.), Anabelle Ténèze, Alexis Nouss, and Kamel Daoud, Exils (catalog), Louvre-Lens - Grand Palais - RMN, 2024, 240 pages, €35.

Chartres, its cathedral, its treasures, and its millenium Le trésor de la cathédrale de Chartres (The Treasures of Chartres Cathedral), permanent exhibition, Musée des Beaux-Arts (www.chartres.fr/musee-beaux-arts/), 29 cloître Notre-Dame, 28000 Chartres. Le feu sacré, manuscripts enluminés chartrains du XII^e au XIII^e siècle (The Holy Fire, Illuminated Chartran Manuscripts from the Twelfth to the Thirteenth Centuries), temporary exhibition, until January 12, 2025. Mille ans de sculptures à Chartres (A Thousand Years of Sculpture in Chartres), temporary exhibition, until February 16, 2025.

Fabienne Verdier’s retables, the summit of her art Fabienne Verdier, retables, Galerie Lelong, 13, rue de Téhéran and 38, avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris, until October 31. Stéphane Custot, Jean Frémon, and Stéphane Lambert, Fabienne Verdier, retables (catalog), Galerie Lelong, 2024, 236 pages, 140 illustrations, €45. Alexandre Vanautgaerden (ed.), Écho, Fabienne Verdier, Carnets d’atelier (2017–2022), Éditions 5 continents, 2023, 384 pages, 168 illustrations, €49.

Discovering Martha Jungwirth in Bilbao

The Inguimbertine museum-library in Carpentras

Paolo Roversi at the Galliera Museum

“Paolo Roversi”, Palais Galliera - Musée de la mode de la ville de Paris (www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr), 10 avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, 75016 Paris, until July 14. Paolo Roversi and Emanuele Coccia, Lettres sur la lumière, with text by Erri De Luca, foreword by Chiara Bardelli-Nonino, Gallimard, 2024, 168 pages, €30.

On show in Basel: Dan Flavin and Ingenious Women

Léonce Rosenberg’s apartment at the Musée Picasso

The hidden treasures of the Chepang, Nepal

Barceló in dialogue with Dante and the Dogons

Chagall, Picasso, and war

Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders, or principal photography

In search of the face and art of the Fauves

Levinas and Pope John Paul II