In its move to the Right Bank, the contemporary art museum has leased the basement and first two floors of a sprawling former hotel opposite the Louvre.
The Pompidou’s final architecture exhibition before it closes for renovations displays a career-spanning trove of the mischievous Austrian’s highly varied output, which runs the gamut from radical provocations to PoMo puckishness.
Although public Sunday mass was held at the fire-ravaged Gothic cathedral for the first time since April 2019, full restoration work will not be completed until 2028 at the earliest.
With only two purpose-built structures and a heavy reliance on existing venues, this year's games will be the least architectural—in terms of new construction—in decades.