A pilot project will begin operating in February 2024

Paris mayor describes project as “a very fine example of the art world’s ability to adapt to climate challenges”

France's culture minister said the country “never boycotts artists”, but artists and performers from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso will no longer be granted visas

93-year-old Jean Lupu, who allegedly faked 17th- and 18th-century royal furniture, and his wife say they are unable to stand trial due to illness and stress

Artist responses to the 1937 bombing in the Basque Country include René Iché's disturbing sculpture and a piece by protégé of Henri Matisse

Pyotr Pavlensky created his Pornopolitics work in response to the video and now faces up to two years in prison for publishing sexual content without the participants' consent

"Tree of Life" is made of 110,000 fabric pieces crafted during lockdown from materials that were already in the artist's studio

Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month

Paris-headquartered museum brand will open its South Korean outpost in 2025

Though the Parisian cathedral's nave is expected to reopen to the public by the end of 2024, work to restore the entire site could last until 2028

This picture was given to hang above his two-week-old nephew’s crib—and later survived raucous pillow fights

The directive will make selling art in France much more expensive—and imperil its post-Brexit position as the EU's market hub

The works were owned by influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard and will be returned to his heirs

The outpost would be the gallery's latest international satellite and the latest of many France-driven arts initiative in the Middle Eastern country

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

Caribbean-born Julien Creuzet and sculptor Edith Karlson will fly the flag at the 60th edition of the exhibition

The first scholarly study of a true dilettante of Old Masters, antiquities and new works, reveals an indomitable, questing soul

Demonstrators poured orange paint over the US artist Charles Ray's Horse and Rider

Jewel that gives its name to an 1892 Tahitian carving was added to the work years after the French artist’s death, researcher discovers

Works by more than 200 artists are on show across French city, in sites that range from Renaissance courtyards to a former household appliance factory

Owner of L’Etoile d’Ishtar gallery said artefacts from Saqqara necropolis “should be restituted to Egypt” but insists he purchased them in good faith

This statistics-driven investigation shows that many of the hundreds of women exhibiting in London and Paris between 1760 and 1830 eschewed the still-life

In wake of scandal involving former Louvre director, France's culture minister forms taskforce to assess acquisitions procedures at museums

The crooks removed the mural that was painted on an emergency exit door of the Parisian concert hall, though there is disagreement over who ordered the theft

Five years ago President Macron took the museum world by surprise when he announced a then-revolutionary restitution plan. Now the country’s politicians are at odds about how to implement it

Subterranean tunnels and towers pepper the 40-hectare site of La Ribaute in Barjac

Culture pass, restitution issues and metaverse will be on her agenda

Plus, Walter Sickert at Tate Britain and Gordon Parks at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

As Macron and Le Pen face off in the second round of the presidential battle, cultural policy is likely to continue taking a back seat