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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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