AIX-en-PROVENCE: Musée Granet. Pierre Alechinsky: Through October 3.
ANGERS: Musée des Beaux Arts. Loriot-Melia (Installations): October 30 to March 13.
AVIGNON: Palais des Papes. Miquel Barcelo: Through November 7.
BORDEAUX: Musée des Beaux-Arts. Academic Nudes from Mignard to Gros: November 4 to January 31.
LE CATEAU-CAMBRESIS. Musée Matisse. Matisse & the Eskimos: November 7 to February 6.
CHANTILLY. Musée Condé. Dutch Art from the permanent collection: September 15 to January 2.
FONTAINEBLEAU. Château. Henri IV at Fontainebleau: October 13 to January 30.
GIVERNY. Musée des Impressionismes. Olivier Mériel: Through October 31. Maximilien Luce: Through October 31.
LE HAVRE. Musée Malraux. Signac -The Ports of France: October 1 to January 30.
LILLE: Palais des Beaux-Arts. Eugène Leroy: October 9 to January 10. La Piscine (Roubaix). Edgar Degas – Sculpture: October 8 to January 15. NEWS! Lille’s renowned Museum of Modern Art re-opens in surburban Villeneuve d’Ascq on September 25 after a four-year renovation. (More in a future issue.) Hospice Comtesse. Pierre Olivier. October 21 to January 3.
LYON: Palais des Beaux-Arts. Louis Cretey, 17th Century Visionnary: October 22 to January 24. Musée des Tissus: Fastes d’Aragon: Through October 3. Textile Jewelry: October 15 to February 13. Lyonnais Silk at World Fairs: November 15 to March 20. Zilli: November 19 to February 27. MAC. Trisha Brown & Bruce Nauman: September 11 to December 31.
MARSEILLE: Musée Cantini. Jacques Hérold. October 21 to February 6.
MONTPELLIER: Musée Fabre. Alexandre Cabanel: Through October 31.
MOULINS. Centre national du Costume de scène. Diva Dresses (Maria Callas, Sarah Bernhardt, Kiri Ta Kanawa…): Through December 31.
NANTES. Château. France-China 1700-1860 – Silk & Canons. Through November 7.
NICE: MAMAC. David Tremlett: Through September 26. Cai Guo-Quiang: Through January 9.
QUIMPER. Beaux Arts. Meijer de Haan. Through October 11.
RENNES: Musée de Beaux-Arts. Heemskerck & Humanism: October 6 to January 4.
ROUEN: Musée de Beaux-Arts. Rouen, An Impressionist City: Through September 26.
SAINT-PAUL: Fondation Maeght. Alberto Giacometti: Through October 31.
SAINT-TROPEZ. Musée de l’Annonciade. Amadeo Modigliani : Through October 18.
STRASBOURG: Palais Rohan/Musée Archéologique. Argentorate – A Roman Legionnaire’s Camp on the Rhine (recent excavations): Through August 31, 2011.
VERSAILLES. Musée du Château. Science and Curiosities at the Court of Versailles. October 26 to February 27.