Art in Paris

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.