How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’
Visitors have streamed back after Covid-19, but the influx has been a double-edged sword, forcing some institutions to consider their long-term sustainability
Henri Matisse’s daughter Marguerite inspires a new angle on the ubiquitous artist
In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to provide new insights into his life and career
‘It's having a battering’: behind the Tate's latest round of layoffs
The UK institution is slashing 7% of its workforce as "real-terms decline" in public funds and declining visitor numbers continue to bite
With the building of a new museum, Poland at last has a fitting space to tell Treblinka’s horrific story
The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the dark chapter in Europe’s history is not forgotten
Tacita Dean on why she has made a book about her night in a museum with Cy Twombly’s art
The British artist has published a new book of detailed photographs of her hero’s work
Guts, verve, beauty and splendour: International Women’s Day exhibitions, events and auctions
‘Women in Revolt!’ heads to Manchester, Tracey Emin makes the Independent Women 2025 Influence List and EmpowerHER ‘25 creates a space where “women's voices in art could truly be seen and heard”
Shifting sands of diplomacy between Europe and Middle East see institutions struggling
Cultural collaborations have become more centred outside European countries, leaving bodies such as Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe adrift
Musée de l’Orangerie set to reopen after works to improve visitor flow—and tackle the notorious Tuileries dust
The latest stage of the Paris museum's revamp will end on 2 March
Sharjah Biennial 16: sprawling emirate-wide exhibition regains its edge
This year's edition of the distinguished event features more than 650 works by nearly 200 artists that build upon its legacy of creating connections between non-Western communities
Nashville show looks at how the Impressionists and others depicted food production in 19th century France
The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin
Comment | What happens behind the scenes at the museum is what really matters
From delicate cleaning to forklifts, the unseen, but crucial, investment often goes unnoticed
'We haven’t seen positive things yet': UK arts bodies urge clarity on funding six months after Labour victory
With local authorities in crisis and Tate running a deficit, leaders of British organisations hope for much-needed capital investment
As world cheers the restored Notre-Dame, other French churches decay
The country has too many churches in areas with too few people—and too little money to maintain them
Rachida Dati stays in post as French culture minister in new government
France’s culture budgets have long been sacrosanct but concerns are raised about generous public arts funding in the wake of political turmoil
Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2025
The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo
The must-see exhibitions in 2025: from Leigh Bowery in London to Michaelina Wautier in Vienna
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
Gerhard Richter once thought film wasn't for him—in Rome, his latest exhibition proves how wrong he was
The artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian
Art Institute of Chicago explores ‘complex terrain’ of Pan-African art
A new show examines what the term means and celebrates foundational Black liberation movements
Paris heralds the return of Notre-Dame’s bells
The northern belfry’s mighty bells—the oldest having survived the French Revolution—have been restored in Normandy and reinstalled in the bell chamber, from where they will once again ring out
The architecture graduate tasked with recording Notre-Dame’s renovation—in pencil and chalk
Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes
Out of the ashes: how Notre-Dame has been resurrected in a miraculously short time
Faith, politics and emotion have fused in the rebuilding of the Paris cathedral partially destroyed by a fire in 2019
The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last
Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027
A dual social and artistic purpose: London's Whitechapel Gallery to screen films by Jarman Award nominees
Ahead of the announcement of the 2024 Film London Jarman Award winner on 25 November, Whitechapel gallery will show entries by all six shortlisted artists
Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble
The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement
Turning 21 with a bang: Frieze's revamped tent brings emerging galleries to the fore
The fair’s location in Regent’s Park is both a boon and a bind: but this year designers have reconfigured Frieze London’s layout to improve the experience for visitors and galleries alike
Igloos, trees and ice: Arte Povera and its legacy explored in Paris exhibition
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev delays her retirement to curate Bourse de Commerce show highlighting many artistic firsts
Olafur Eliasson will blur advertising billboards in London, Seoul, New York and Berlin
The Danish-Icelandic artist is unveiling a series of out-of-focus videos, Lifeworld, on 1 October
Rachida Dati has been reappointed as France's culture minister—but does she have the will to protect heritage?
The debacle over the commissioning of Notre-Dame's stained-glass windows highlights the politician's propensity to ignore expert advice
‘Dalí wanted his mouth to be very realistic’: fabled lip sofa prototype at heart of new Surrealist show in Paris
An exhibition of furniture at Galerie Poggi highlights the achievements of the mid-century Spanish design company BD Barcelona Design
‘A collective adventure’: Paris exhibition celebrates a century since the birth of Surrealism
André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to overlooked artists