Do you think you know everything about the unicorn? A fantastic animal omnipresent in popular culture, it nonetheless remains full of mysteries. From March 10 to July 12, 2026, the Musée de Cluny will unravel all its facets with the exhibition "Unicorns!".

The exhibition "Unicorns!" is organised by the Musée de Cluny and the GrandPalaisRmn, with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. It benefits from loans from prestigious international museum institutions such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Musée du Louvre.

Curators

Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot General Curator, Musée de Cluny (Paris, France)
Michael Philipp Chief Curator, Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)

Artist, feminist and avant-garde environmentalist, woman, mother, migrant, marked by mental illness and spiritual quest, Leonora Carrington left behind a legacy as extraordinary as it is radical.

Born in 1917 in Lancashire, England, Leonora Carrington forged her identity through travel, both internal and external. From Florence to Paris, from the South of France to Spain, and finally to Mexico, where she became a cult figure, her extraordinary path nourished a body of work at the crossroads of surrealism, mythology, and esotericism.

This exhibition, bringing together 126 works, is the first major exhibition in France devoted exclusively to Carrington's work. It presents Carrington as a "Vitruvian Woman": a total artist representing a model of harmony and innovation. Her creations merge human and animal, masculine and feminine, giving form to a world where metamorphoses and symbols respond to each other.

Through a chronological and thematic approach, as well as a unique presentation of her diverse visionary creations, the exhibition explores the artist's main themes and interests: her discovery of classical Italian art in Florence during her adolescence, her fascination with the Renaissance, her Celtic and post-Victorian origins, and her involvement in surrealism during her stay in France.

The exhibition thus highlights the exceptional legacy of this perpetual traveler, always in search of self-knowledge.

The Grand Palais honors African-American artist Mickalene Thomas with All About Love: a vibrant retrospective exploring the visibility and representation of Black women and celebrating love as a force for liberation, self-affirmation, and joy.

All About Love is a monographic exhibition by American artist Mickalene Thomas (1971, New York), internationally recognized for her bold and multidimensional practice. She explores the representation of Black women in art, history, and popular culture, reinventing the classical portrait through a queer and Black feminist perspective.

The retrospective covers more than two decades of creation, combining painting, collage, photography, video, and installation. At the center of her work, love appears as a force of liberation, joy, and self-affirmation, a theme inspired by bell hooks' seminal book, All About Love: New Visions (1999).

Thomas's works pay tribute to the autonomy, beauty, and resilience of Black women. Her subjects-friends, family, lovers, and cultural icons-are depicted with confidence, sensuality, and grace, reclaiming spaces from which they have historically been excluded. The compositions, often adorned with rhinestones, invite the audience to enter worlds where pleasure becomes political and representation radical.

Thomas also engages with European art history, particularly French art history. Iconic works such as Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) and Ingres' La Grande Odalisque (1814) are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, placing black women at the center of the narrative and transforming the reading of the classics.

All About Love invites you to discover a world of love, leisure, and liberation, where beauty, intimacy, and self-control redefine the historical view of art.

Following acclaimed exhibitions at The Broad (Los Angeles), The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), the Hayward Gallery (London), and Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), this retrospective is the most ambitious presentation of Mickalene Thomas's work in Paris to date.

Exhibition organized by the GrandPalaisRmn, the Hayward Gallery, London, and Les Abattoirs, Museum - Frac Occitanie Toulouse

Curators

Rachel Thomas, Chief Curator, Hayward Gallery
Lauriane Gricourt, Director of Les Abattoirs, Museum - Frac Occitanie Toulouse
Erin Jenoa Gilbert, Independent Curator

Scenography: Nicolas Groult and Valentina Dodi

With over 35,000 drawings, the Centre Pompidou's graphic art collection is one of the world's largest collections. For the first time, more than 300 works by 120 artists including Dubuffet, Basquiat, Delaunay, Kentridge and many others reveal, at the Grand Palais, a constantly reinvented art of drawing.

With more than 300 works by 120 artists, the exhibition offers a unique exploration of the Centre Pompidou's graphic art collection, organized around four sequences: studying, narrating, drawing, and animating. Without chronological order, the parcours is based on a sensitive approach where works succeed and respond to one another in a domino effect. A unique dive into an art that is fragile, inventive, and ever-relevant.

Coproduction between Centre Pompidou and GrandPalaisRmn

Curators

Claudine Grammont Head of Department, Graphic Arts, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne

Anne Montfort-Tanguy Curator, Graphic Arts, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne

Associated curators: Valérie Loth and Laetitia Pesenti, Assistant Curators, Graphic Arts, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne

Exhibition design: Pauline Phelouzat Architect-designer