Featured Events in Paris in October, 2025 (December Updated)

The Moulin Rouge is located in the Pigalle area of the Montmartre district of Paris. The Moulin Rouge is not big from the outside, and the red windmill on the roof is his symbol, which is very conspicuous. Historical background The Moulin Rouge was founded in 1889. It is a historic show in Paris. Now it can accommodate more than 2,000 people and attract audiences from all over the world. In 2001, Nicole Kidman starred in "Moulin Rouge" to make it more famous. The exciting cabaret show Moulin Rouge is also known as the birthplace of modern cancan, which incorporates more acrobatic and athletic skills. Lively rhythm, kicking high thighs, amazing, slightly crazy. In addition, the sky show is also very attractive. The exquisite costumes of the dancers are tailor-made by Italian design masters. The stage design is quite elegant, and the scenes are varied. The dancers come from all over the world, and the performance level is very high. During the period, acrobatics and magic are interspersed. Waiting for the performance, amazing and exciting. Night performances The Moulin Rouge song and dance show usually starts at 7 pm, and there are two to three performances every night. The performance time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes. The performances including dinner are generally around 7 pm. Please refer to the official website for the specific time. When watching the performance, the Moulin Rouge does not allow coats and coats to be brought into the room, and coats must be stored before entering the venue

John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 – London, 1925), along with James McNeill Whistler, was the most famous American artist of his generation and certainly one of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th century. Revered in the United States (his Portrait of Madame X is regarded as the Mona Lisa of the American art collection conserved by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), he is also famous in the United Kingdom, where he spent most of his career. In France, however, his name and work remain largely unknown, a situation that the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in fall 2025 hopes to change.

The shortlist for this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, announced by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) is: Bianca Bondi (born 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Paris); Eva Nielsen (born 1983 in Les Lilas, France. Lives and works in Paris); Lionel Sabatté (born 1975 in Toulouse, France. Lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles); and Xie Lei (born 1983 in Huainan, China. Lives and works in Paris). Endowed with €90,000, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is the most prestigious contemporary art prize in France. It is awarded every year by the ADIAF to recognise contemporary art production by artists who are French or who live in the country. The prize is followed by an exhibition of the shortlisted artists. This year, for the first time since the creation of the prize in 2000, the exhibition will not be held at the Centre Pompidou, which will be closed for renovation. Instead, the exhibition will take place at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from 26 September 2025 through 22 February 2026. The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is set to host the exhibitions of the Marcel Duchamp Prize until 2029.

The exhibition traces the extraordinary life of this Italian artist, a Russian prince by birth and Parisian by adoption, who also had a brilliant career in the United States. A highly talented portraitist, he was much sought-after by a cosmopolitan elite, celebrities, the Parisian smart set and the first American film stars. His life was marked by decisive encounters and friendships with men of letters, Tolstoy in Russia and George Bernard Shaw in Paris, with whom he shared a vegetarian lifestyle, somewhat unusual for the era. In addition to the portraits that made his name, the exhibition will be highlighting his animal sculptures along with his astonishing work on behalf of animal rights, of which he was an ardent advocate well ahead of his time.

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is organizing, in collaboration with the artist, the most significant exhibition to date of George Condo’s work. A painter, draftsman, and sculptor, George Condo has created a unique pictorial world, drawing inspiration from a profuse visual culture spanning Western art history, from the Old Masters to the present.

Crazy Horse (formerly known as Crazy Horse Saloon) is a cabaret located at 12 avenue George V, in the Champs-Élysées district of Paris. It was founded by Alain Bernardin in 1951. The name "Crazy Horse" comes from the English name of the Sioux chief Thašunka Witko and subsequently became famous. It is one of the three great spectacles of Paris, alongside the Lido and the Moulin Rouge. The Crazy Horse show is known for its exquisite, elegant, and alluring performances, which are artistic displays incorporating the concepts of "sound, light, color, and nudity." The entire show is typically comprised of beautiful dancers with well-proportioned and consistent bodies, who use gorgeous and fantastic lights and smoke as their clothing, presenting a three-dimensional song and dance show that combines sound, light, and sensory effects under colorful lighting and music.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a leading French painter during the transition period from late Rococo to Neoclassicism. Renowned for his portraits and genre scenes, Greuze is considered one of the most daring and influential artists of the 18th century. Greuze's inherent independence set him apart from his contemporaries, constantly asserting his creative freedom and his desire to challenge established pictorial conventions.

From October 17, 2025 to March 2, 2026, the Foundation presents a retrospective of the work of Gerhard Richter, a German painter born in Dresden in 1932 who fled to Düsseldorf in 1961 before settling in Cologne, where he still lives and works today.

The group exhibition "Echo Delay Reverberation: American Art, French Thought" explores the history of the transatlantic spread of forms and ideas through the work of approximately sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of media and a few specific works. It demonstrates how American art catalyzed the revolutionary energy of thinkers, activists, and poets who transcended genre and profoundly altered perspectives in our world today.

From January 30, 2025,throughJanuary 4, 2026, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech invites you to experienceYves Saint Laurent: The Hamish Bowles Collection, fifty-three odes to elegance, brought to life through an outstanding loan that will enthral visitors.