A museum, a gallery, a new exhibition or a cultural event – festival, concert, performance – often serve as the trigger for a short excursion, they motivate us for a different city break or long weekend, they become a reason for choosing a destination or a reason to return to it and ultimately they can upgrade travel moments into unforgettable cultural experiences, with depth, inspiration and meaning. In this article we present, always in our opinion, the most important art exhibitions on offer:
- PARIS-FRANCE (EU)
Exhibition: «Matisse: 1941-1954»
Focusing this time on the works of Matisse’s last period, a collaboration between the Grand Palais and the Centre Pompidou gives us the opportunity to admire more than 230 of these works of art, created between 1941 and 1954. Among the highlights are monumental panels, brush and ink drawings and some of his most exceptional gouache works: La Tristesse du roi, Zulma, La Danseuse créole and Nus bleus. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight that, despite the changes in Matisse’s last period of work, painting remained “at the heart of his approach”. Grand Palais
March 24 – July 26, 2026
- NEW YORK (USA)
Exhibition: Raphael: Sublime Poetry
Among those who deserve the title of one of the greatest artists of all time, it is impossible not to include Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, the great Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance. This will be demonstrated by the first extensive retrospective exhibition of the artist in the United States, with more than 200 drawings, paintings, tapestries and works of decorative arts, which took seven years to gather from private collections and leading museums. Among them, the famous “Alba Madonna”, a typical example of Raphael’s unparalleled mastery in the rendering of harmony and classical beauty on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 29 – June 29, 2026
