Anna Sansom
Fiac welcomes design back to the fold
Fair celebrates art-design crossovers in public installations
Reminted Monnaie de Paris reveals its treasures
France's historic coin factory has had a €75m makeover
Rediscovered Chinese seal surfaces at auction in southwestern France
The soapstone seal is believed to be one of two used personally by Emperor Qianlong and was discovered in a French collection
Location, location: first gallery opens on Paris’s Boulevard Magenta
The re-opened Untilthen gallery will show contemporary art in a domestic setting, off the beaten track near fashionable Canal St Martin
Islamic extremist liable for €2.7m in damages for destroying Timbuktu shrines
Ruling by the International Criminal Court sets an important precedent
Thieves posing as Paris city employees caught on camera stripping street artist’s mosaics
Theft to order suspected as 15 works by French street artist Invader are stolen in 10 days
Perrotin to inaugurate Tokyo gallery with Soulages show
The 97-year old artist won prestigious Japanese Praemium Imperiale prize in 1992
Prix Marcel Duchamp, France's leading contemporary art prize, goes abroad
Shows at London's Whitechapel Gallery and in China aim to raise prize's international profile
Rediscovered Rodin sculpture surfaces at auction
A never-before-exhibited version of Andromède will be offered at Artcurial with an estimate of €800,000-€1.2m
Artists give warm welcome to new French culture minister
Appointment of indie publisher Françoise Nyssen enthuses French cultural world
French art world breathes sigh of relief as Macron wins presidency
Arts professionals hope that victory speech in front of the Louvre is a sign that the young president will bring new life to the culture sector
French cultural groups organise anti-Le Pen rally
Organisers fear the presidential candidate's policies would curtail artistic freedom
First French art prize for female artists awarded
Inaugural AWARE award went to Laetitia Badaut Haussmann and Judit Reigl
Maison Rouge, category-defying art space in Paris, to close in 2018
Gallerist and collector Antoine de Galbert says he wants to go out on a high
Wim Delvoye’s poop and potato gun works to be shown at Museum Tinguely during Art Basel
The Belgian artist’s Spud Gun and Cloaca series to be displayed alongside Swiss sculptor’s kinetic machines
Wim Delvoye to create public sculpture of French astronomer François Arago in Paris
Belgian artist was chosen over 12 others whose maquettes will be auctioned at Artcurial
Pierre Huyghe’s eerie system fascinates in Tino Sehgal’s Paris show
Spiders, flies and ants drive growth of human cancer cells in flickering light of basement installation
Tino Sehgal—and 300 performers—take over the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
After Philippe Parreno in 2013, the British-born, Berlin-based artist gets "carte blanche" to fill the entirety of the vast contemporary art space
Africa's first major Matisse show to open in Johannesburg
Exhibition will highlight inspiration the French artist drew from African figurines and masks
Trend for art in shopping malls hits France
Miró sculptures from the Maeght collection go on show at Polygone Riviera on the Côte d'Azur
Simon Starling takes to the stage for his latest project
A new play and exhibition has eclectic sources of inspiration, from Yeats to Japanese Noh theatre
Huang Yong Ping ‘occupies’ Grand Palais with 250m-long snake for Monumenta commission
New work unveiled on the weekend also features the oversized bicorne hat of Napoleon Bonaparte
Pompidou welcomes Daniel and Florence Guerlain’s deferred gift of 1000 contemporary drawings
The Guerlains are mindful of the fate of an ancestor’s impressionist works, having no wish for their collection to be divvied up in the same manner
Collectors drawn to Paris for synchronised mass of art fairs and auctions
But attendance was down at fairs devoted to works on paper