The exhibition Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience offers a compact yet incisive reconsideration of an artist who redefined the relationship between measurement, form and perception. The presentation highlights the radical nature of his research, grounded in numerical sequences, rigorous geometries and an understanding of space as a physical encounter before it is a visual one. Sculptures and serial works converse with films and drawings that reveal a practice far less easily categorised than its usual association with Land Art suggests - De Maria emerges as an artist capable of merging mathematical precision, metaphysical tension and a subtle irony that destabilises any sense of certainty. At the core is the idea of a “singular experience”, conceived as a direct form of engagement in which viewers are invited to confront works that resist passive observation and instead demand an active presence. The exhibition conveys the complexity of an artist who treated form as discipline and perception as a field of freedom, allowing an energy to surface that still challenges the ways we look at, measure and inhabit space.
Philip Glass’s Satyagraha returns to the Opéra National de Paris as an opera that turns listening into an experience of thought. Far from traditional melodrama, its minimalist score reflects on time, perseverance and non-violent resistance inspired by Gandhi. A work whose resonance feels particularly strong today.
The Musée des Arts décoratifs marks the centenary of the 1925 Exposition with an extensive survey tracing the origins, evolution and legacy of Art Deco. One thousand works, from furniture and glass to fashion and design, illustrate a movement that fused craftsmanship and industry, modernity and luxury.
The Great Paris Steeplechase returns to the Hippodrome d’Auteuil in May 2026, gathering the world’s top horses and jockeys. A historic competition blending technique, endurance and spectacle. The event reaffirms Paris as a global capital of equestrian sport.
At the Grand Palais in Paris the exhibition D’un seul souffle by Claire Tabouret presents life-size models, sketches and preparatory work for the six new contemporary stained-glass windows she has designed for Notre-Dame Cathedral, offering insight into a work in progress.
