Art Basel Paris has announced the details of its 2026 edition, which runs October 23 to 25 at the Grand Palais with preview days on October 21 and 22. The fair, led for the first time by director Karim Crippa, will gather 211 galleries from 41 countries and regions. A headline addition is the Oh La La! initiative, returning for 2026 under the theme 'Myths and Legends', with actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu — Sylvie in the series Emily in Paris — as its guest art director. Galleries will present new works over the fair's Friday and Saturday exploring myths and legends through transformation, beliefs, rituals and imaginary landscapes, with participating artists including Ossip Zadkine and Nina Childress. The sector breakdown covers 183 participants in Galeries, 16 solo presentations in Emergence — dedicated to emerging artists, with most exhibitors new to the fair — and 12 historically focused projects in Premise, which moves this year to the 900-square-metre Salon Seine. Thirty-two galleries are making their Art Basel Paris debut, among them Larkin Erdmann Gallery of Zurich, which is bringing On Kawara's Nov 7, 1977 and Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed Mona Lisa readymade L.H.O.O.Q. back to the market after decades. Beyond the Grand Palais, the fair extends across the city: Avenue Winston Churchill becomes an open-air exhibition space with work including Niki de Saint Phalle's Cat Head Totem, while Parisian museums host parallel programmes featuring Mary Cassatt, Jenny Holzer, Simone Fattal, Prune Nourry and Louise Bourgeois. The announcement underlines Paris's standing as the world's fourth-largest art market, accounting for eight percent of global sales in 2025.