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Paul McCartney — Eyes of the Storm
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence · July 4, 2026 – January 3, 2027
The Beatles at the point of becoming the Beatles. McCartney’s own photographs from 1963–64, recovered from a personal archive and shown here as a portrait of a band still in motion. The unexpected pleasure is seeing the visual artist behind the songwriter.
Jeanne Vicerial — Incarnation
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence · Until October 4
Body, textile, silhouette, transformation. Vicerial’s sculptural garments sit somewhere between fashion, contemporary art, and a second skin. A precise counterpoint to McCartney’s documentary eye.
Tursic & Mille — Dissonances à géométries variables
Carré d’Art, Nîmes · Summer 2026
Painting that behaves like a collision: images, surfaces, references, and scale held in productive tension inside Norman Foster’s building, directly opposite the Maison Carrée — the best-preserved Roman temple in the world.
Paul McCartney, Eyes of the Storm © Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence / MPL Communications
RE–SITU Recommends: La Chassagnette
Route du Sambuc, 13200 Arles
A garden restaurant in the Camargue, where the vegetable plot is not a garnish but the centre of the meal. Go after the museum, not before.
Off the map
Bonnes Mères
MuCEM, Marseille · Until August 31
A Mediterranean exhibition about motherhood as a social construction, a lived experience, and a visual language. The MuCEM is at its best when it turns a contemporary question into a cultural geography.
Art, architecture, landscape
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade · Ongoing
Calder, Serra, Turrell, Hadid, Ando, Gehry: a day through a vineyard where the architecture is part of the collection. Come for one work, stay for the landscape.
A city within the city
La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille · Ongoing programme
Studios, exhibitions, rooftops, radio, dance, and an urban view of Marseille that begins where the tourist map usually stops. Check the day’s programme before going.
Bonnes Mères © Pierre et Gilles, La Vierge à l’enfant, 2009 / MuCEM, Marseille
RE–SITU Recommends: Chez Fonfon
140 rue du Vallon des Auffes, 13007 Marseille
A Marseille institution in the Vallon des Auffes, a tiny fishing harbour tucked into the coast. Bouillabaisse, salt air, and the city seen from its edge.
Les Immanquables
Les Rencontres d’Arles — Des Mondes à Relire
Arles · July 6 – October 4, 2026
Forty-seven exhibitions across the city, from former churches to industrial sites. The annual pilgrimage for photography, but also one of the best ways to understand Arles as a living cultural landscape. The 57th edition puts Africa at the centre, and celebrates the centenary of William Klein.
L’Art romain du Louvre — Un monde d’images
Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes · Until January 10, 2027
Roman images, power, gods, bodies, and the visual systems of an empire. Nîmes is already a Roman city; this exhibition gives the stones a wider conversation.
The tower, the park, the programme
LUMA Arles, Parc des Ateliers · Ongoing
Frank Gehry’s tower is the obvious landmark. The reason to go is the wider campus: exhibitions, architecture, landscape, and the sense that Arles is still inventing its cultural future.
Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Many Reasons to Live Again, 2022
© Carlos Idun-Tawiah / Courtesy of Galería Alta / Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026
RE–SITU Recommends: Le Petit Nice Passedat
17 rue des Braves, 13007 Marseille
For the full Mediterranean gesture, follow the Corniche. Gérald Passedat’s original address turns the sea into both landscape and ingredient. Reserve ahead, then let the afternoon run west.
No two cities reveal themselves the same way twice. Neither will this one.
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