Victoria Stapley-Brown

Musée d’Orsay closed today due to a strike, interrupting the opening of prostitution show

A staff meeting is planned early Wednesday to decide whether to continue the labour protest

Tree of Codes collaboration lights up the Park Avenue Armory

The dance piece choreographed by Wayne McGregor includes a set designed by Olafur Eliasson and music by Jamie xx

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New York State to create biennial artist laureate award

Named in honour of Nyack-born Edward Hopper, the $10,000 prize will be presented every two years

First house designed by Gaudí to open as a museum in 2016

Casa Vicens, a Unesco World Heritage building, is currently undergoing renovation

Philadelphia institutions offer up sacred spread in lead-up to Pope’s visit

Among the displays is Robert Indiana’s AMOR sculpture installed on the Philadelphia Museum of Art East Terrace, overlooking the Papal mass

Argentina plans to return thousands of artefacts to Ecuador and Peru

Country’s president applauds “unusual” restitution but calls out international museums that display objects stolen from Latin American

Daniel Buren threatens to sue French city over disrepair of public work

Lyon insists a restoration of the artist’s 1994 intervention in the main square is on the agenda

A 17th-century country house is once again a family home

St Giles House, the Dorset seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, wins restoration award—and the Earl is moving back in

Louvre freshens up galleries of French paintings first

Grand rehang begins as director resolves to give permanent displays a "complete makeover"

The Young Lords in New York

A trio of exhibitions examines the artistic and political legacy of the grassroots group

Artists respond to call from the Bronx

Work by more than 70 emerging artists from across New York featured in Bronx Calling

Studio Museum in Harlem to build new home from the ground up

David Adjaye-designed gallery aims to reflect institution's roots

British Museum’s ivory icons denied US entry for loan show

The US Fish and Wildlife Service blocked the importation of the Byzantine objects before they ever left the UK

Paris Jewish centre to open in 2017 as a ‘symbol of hope’

The €10m project in the city’s 17th arrondissement is due to include a synagogue, library, theatre and classrooms

French museum directors ordered to keep their expenses in check

Culture ministry cracks down after media reports that the Centre Pompidou’s former general director spent tens of thousands of euros on taxis

Why the Big Apple still lures French artists

A century after Marcel Duchamp first arrived, New York’s appeal is as strong as ever