Event of the week

When Léger Made the World

A 1923 ballet that changed modernism, revisited in the hills above Antibes.

13 June – 12 OctoberBiot
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This week on the Riviera

Exhibitions, concerts, gastronomy and culture — from Saint-Tropez to Monaco.

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Exhibition

27 June – 31 October

The Quiet Hours: Bonnard's Marthe, Seen at Last

A summer exhibition at Le Cannet's Musée Bonnard turns a painter's private gaze into public revelation.

📍 16 boulevard Sadi Carnot, 16 boulevard Sadi Carnot, Musée Bonnard, 06110

Le Cannet3 min
Exhibition

4 July – 23 November

A Chapel Made New: Pascale Marthine Tayou Comes to Vallauris

A site-specific commission brings one of contemporary art's most restless voices to Picasso's chapel.

📍 Musée National Picasso "La Guerre et la Paix", Musée National Picasso "La Guerre et la Paix", Place de la Libér

Vallauris4 min
Exhibition

4 July – 10 January

The Happiness That Has No People In It

Marion Charlet's acid-bright paintings ask what paradise looks like when we leave it alone.

📍 Suquet des Artistes, 7 rue Saint-Dizier, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Exhibition

17 July – 8 November

Worlds Without Borders: Hervé Di Rosa at La Malmaison

A painter who circles the globe returns — this time, to the Croisette.

📍 Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, 47 boulevard de la Crois

Cannes4 min
Exhibition

17 July – 8 November

Forty Years of Joyful Subversion: Hervé Di Rosa Comes to Cannes

A sweeping retrospective on the Croisette — vivid, irreverent, and long overdue.

📍 Centre d'art contemporain La Malmaison, 47 boulevard de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes

Cannes5 min
Concert

23 July – 4 October

Thirty-Five Years of Sacred Music in the Stones of Antibes

Each July, ancient chapels and a cathedral become concert halls without equal.

📍 Chapelles Saint-Bernardin, Saint-Jean et de la Garoupe - Cathédrale d’Antibes et Kiosque Place Nationale, Chapelles Saint-Bernardin, Saint-Jean et de la Garoupe - Cathédr

Antibes4 min
Festival

1 September – 21 May

Eighty Years on the Croisette: Cannes Through the Archive

A free exhibition in Nice traces the festival's improbable journey from 1939 to legend.

📍 Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes, 147 Boulevard du Mercantour

Nice4 min
Festival

2–9 October

Too Short, Too Good: Nice's Short Film Festival Returns

A celebration of young European cinema, unfolding across Nice from 2 October 2026.

📍 Divers lieux à Nice, Divers lieux à Nice, 10 rue Penchienatti, 06000

Nice3 min
Exhibition

2–16 October

What Lies Beneath the Riviera

A free photography exhibition in Cannes turns the seagrass into a subject worth knowing.

📍 Médiathèque Noailles, 1 avenue Jean de Noailles, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Festival

2–12 October

Science Takes to the Streets of the Riviera

For ten days in October, the Alpes-Maritimes become an open laboratory for the curious.

📍 Divers lieux des Alpes-Maritimes, Divers lieux des Alpes-Maritimes, 06000

Nice4 min
Concert

3 October

From Laughter to Dreams: An Evening with Offenbach in Cannes

Opér'Azur brings costumed opera bouffe and romantic fantasy to a candlelit English church.

📍 Église Holy Trinity, 2 avenue Branly, 06400 Cannes

Cannes4 min
Exhibition

3 October

Inside the Hill: A Guided Tour of Cannes' Most Secretive Villa

A classified monument hidden above Cannes opens its doors — once a month.

📍 Villa Domergue et ses jardins, 15 avenue Fiesole, Impasse Fiesole, 06400 Cannes

Cannes3 min
Event

6–7 October

When AI Meets the Chest Clinic: A Medical Congress Comes to the Côte d'Azur

Nice hosts an international congress on artificial intelligence in thoracic pathology, October 2026.

📍 Hôtel Le Saint-Paul, Hôtel Le Saint-Paul, 29 boulevard Franck Pilatte, 06300

Nice4 min
Concert

8 October – 15 April

Every Thursday, Cannes Plays Jazz

A season of live concerts runs from October through April at the heart of the city.

📍 Direction de la culture - Mairie de Cannes

Cannes3 min
Concert

12 June – 31 October

Where Exile Becomes a Map

A Venezuelan-rooted photo-and-music installation opens this June in Mouans-Sartoux.

📍 Espace de l'Art Concret, Château de Mouans Sartoux 06370

Mouans-Sartoux4 min

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