Paris spring: stars & shows
Paris picked up eight new Michelin one‑star restaurants in the 2026 guide, and the city’s spring calendar features major retrospectives — Renoir, Nan Goldin, Lee Miller and Matisse — plus Art Paris returning to the Grand Palais in April with 165 galleries from over 20 countries. (parisselectbook.com) (aestheticamagazine.com)
Jin (6 rue de la Sourdière, 1st arrondissement), Zostera by Julien Dumas (40 rue Pergolèse, 16th) and Irwin by Irwin Durand (22 rue Cambacérès, 8th) are named on official MICHELIN listings for Paris this year. (guide.michelin.com)) Prévelle, the first chef‑owner project by Romain Meder in the Invalides area, is listed with a MICHELIN entry and public site noting the chef’s background at Plaza Athénée. (guide.michelin.com)) Maison Ruggieri’s Palais‑Royal address (111 Galerie de Valois) and the chef Martino Ruggieri’s recent move to that site are documented in coverage and MICHELIN information. (sortiraparis.com)) The MICHELIN Guide’s national summary records 54 new One‑MICHELIN‑Star distinctions in France this year and a total selection numbering 668 starred establishments (31 three‑star, 84 two‑star, 553 one‑star). (michelin.com)) The Guide’s Paris coverage also highlights the continued strength of Japanese cuisine in the capital, citing Jin and HANADA as recent examples. (guide.michelin.com)) Musée d’Orsay’s Renoir retrospective runs as a focused survey of the artist’s work from the mid‑1860s to the 1880s and is presented in co‑production with London’s National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (musee-orsay.fr)) The Grand Palais Matisse project assembles more than 300 works from the Centre Pompidou collection and international loans to examine Matisse’s late‑career practice between 1941 and 1954. (grandpalais.fr)) The Grand Palais’s Nan Goldin presentation foregrounds six major slide‑show and film works spanning five decades, with curator Fredrik Liew organizing an immersive “village” installation that extends into the Chapelle Saint‑Louis de la Salpêtrière. (grandpalais.fr)) The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris’s Lee Miller retrospective brings together roughly 250 vintage and modern prints in a show organized with Tate Britain and the Art Institute of Chicago. (mam.paris.fr)) Art Paris’s 28th edition will occupy the Grand Palais nave and balconies and is built around two curated programmes — “Babel – Art and Language in France” by Loïc Le Gall and “Reparation” curated by Alexia Fabre — as described in the fair’s organiser notes. (artparis.com))
