Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington & May's Museum Surge | May 2026
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Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington & May's Museum Surge | May 2026
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(00:00:53) Leonora Carrington at Musée du Luxembourg
(00:01:41) May's Broader Cultural Surge
(00:02:36) Terrace Season and the Food Angle
(00:03:11) What to Watch This Month
Paris's cultural calendar hits a rare density in May 2026, and this episode maps the exhibitions worth your time — and the order worth doing them in.
The headline is a double retrospective that feels deliberate. Hilma af Klint, the Swedish painter producing abstract work before Kandinsky claimed the territory, opens her first French retrospective at the Grand Palais on May 6th, running through August 30th. Across the sixth arrondissement, Musée du Luxembourg presents the first complete French retrospective of Leonora Carrington — Surrealist, singular, and long overdue — through July 19th. Both shows are serious institutional statements. If you're choosing one for a quieter afternoon, the Luxembourg is the insider call.
Beyond those two: Musée de l'Orangerie's Henri Rousseau retrospective goes well beyond the jungle paintings (through July 20th); La Monnaie de Paris connects money and comics across 250 works (through September 6th); and Musée Guimet opens a genuinely rare show on May 20th — Korean national treasures from the Silla Kingdom, leaving Korea for the first time.
On the food side, Fouquet's Paris has launched a spring menu on what they call a secret terrace — worth investigating, not yet confirmed for walk-in access.
Practical note: May's public holidays mean more visitors with free days. Tuesdays through Thursdays, morning entry, are your clearest windows. The Carrington and Silla Guimet shows are the least obvious picks — which usually means the least contested doors.
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