On September 22, the Centre Pompidou closed its doors for a five-year renovation. In keeping with the museum’s experimental spirit, its farewell featured an A.I.-designed display of fireworks by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Still, the institution’s archive is far from going dark. Just four arrondissements away, at the Grand Palais, the Centre Pompidou’s vast collection of works on paper—some 35,000 pieces spanning the 20th and 21st centuries—is on view. The biggest presentation of the collection to date, the exhibition draws on more than 300 drawings to highlight how the medium was reinvented in the 20th century, breaking free of its traditional boundaries and extending into photography, digital media, and collage. Organized around four themes—studying, narrating, tracing, and animating—the show includes artists such as Balthus, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Robert Longo, Robert Rauschenberg, and Kiki Smith. —Jeanne Malle