Current exhibitions in Paris

Photography turns 200: Louvre Photo opens on 4 November, the Orsay's Le Gray on the 10th, as Romeo Mivekannin tackles colonial exhibitions at the Quai Branly. The Musée de l'Armée's de Gaulle before 1940 opens on the 21st. Monet stays at the Orangerie; Mungo Thomson's bronze Snowman, the only one Paris can count on, leaves Lafayette Anticipations on the 29th.

LouvreOpens 4 November

Louvre Photo

Over 300 photographs of the Louvre itself, from the invention of photography to today, with the museum as subject, model and source of inspiration. See these before adding yours to the pile by the pyramid.

Musée d'OrsayOpens 10 November

Gustave Le Gray, Painter and Photographer

A retrospective of the painter who became one of photography's early technical innovators, including recent acquisitions shown for the first time.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques ChiracOpens 10 November

Silent Violence: Through the Eyes of Romeo Mivekannin

Romeo Mivekannin reworks ethnographic photographs from the museum's own collection with mirrors and metal sculpture to examine colonial exhibitions and human zoos.

Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)Opens 21 November

De Gaulle avant de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle from 1909 to 1940, the officer and writer before the June 1940 appeal, told through letters, manuscripts, photographs and personal objects.

Musée de l'OrangerieUntil 25 January

Monet, Painting Time

Monet's Cathedrals, Haystacks and Poplars, the same motif painted at different hours, through to the Water Lilies: a camera roll of the same sunset, with better reasons. Mostly lent by the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Marmottan Monet.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayetteCloses 29 November

Mungo Thomson: Monument

A bronze snowman modelled on cardboard tubes, and a stop-motion film built from thousands of book images. Free, and the one snowman in Paris guaranteed not to melt.

Grand PalaisUntil 17 January

Cézanne and Us

Cézanne's still lifes, tabletops tilting as if the apples might slide off, hung beside 105 works by 78 artists who took his lessons, from Matisse and Picasso to Joan Mitchell and Peter Doig. Connaissance des Arts gave it 19/20.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)Until 24 January

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

School of Beauty, School of Culture is a beauty salon four metres wide, in acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas. Around seventy works, eight painted for Paris. The Guardian called the London version "biting, funny, astonishing, difficult".

Fondation Louis VuittonUntil 8 March

Gustave Fayet, Collector - Designer. Icons of Modern Art

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, not shown in France since 1937, hangs with Gauguin's The Yellow Christ and Redon's panels, all once owned by Gustave Fayet. Robert Carsen designed the rooms to feel like Fayet's homes.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault CollectionUntil 18 January

Remember Me

Edward Steichen's hands shuffling dominoes, never shown before, open around 700 photographs by more than 70 artists, hung by theme rather than date: Le Gray's 1856 seas face Eileen Quinlan's waves. Sortiraparis says allow two hours.

LargeUntil 7 March

Moteur Imaginaire

The opening show at Large, the new art centre on Île Seguin, where Renault built cars until 1992. Cecilia Alemani hangs Tinguely, Dubuffet and others from Renault's own art collection beside 17 new commissions, among them a Renault 12 piled high with luggage.