At the Grand Palais in Paris a new exhibition explores Paul Cezanne’s influence on artists from his own time to now. In Paris, Ben Luke speaks to Xavier Rey, the director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, who is one of four curators of the exhibition, Cezanne and Us.
Paul Cezanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (1887)
© Photo Courtauld
In New York, the Guggenheim has just opened Taryn Simon’s latest project, called Father Country I Do Love You. It is the first solo exhibition by an artist whose principal medium is photography to be staged in the museum’s celebrated rotunda and, remarkably, the largest display of new work ever staged at the Guggenheim. The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Ben Sutton, speaks to Taryn Simon about the show.
Video still from Taryn Simon's Earth two (2026)
© 2026 Taryn Simon
And this episode’s Work of the Week is René Magritte’s Le Plaisir (Pleasure) (1946), a gouache on paper which is part of an exhibition at Gagosian in London called This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte. The exhibition’s co-curator is Jasper Sharp and our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to the gallery to talk to him.
René Magritte, Le Plaisir, 1946, Collection Lucien Bilinelli / Milan
© 2026 ADAGP, Paris and DACS, Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy Gagosian
- Cezanne and Us, Grand Palais, Paris, until 17 January 2027
- Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You, Guggenheim, New York, until 14 March 2027
- This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, until 12 December