Activist group Pain says Paris museum has taped over or taken down plaques dedicated to the eponymous family whose pharmaceutical company is accused of fuelling the US opioid crisis

The piece of furniture by Bernard II van Risenburgh, which left for the US almost four decades ago, was commissioned by Louis XV for his stepdaughter

Moored besides the Pont des Invalides in Paris, Fluctuart will open with an exhibition by the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon

The Leonardo painting, which is seen by thousands of visitors each day, is temporarily leaving its home during renovations to the gallery

Project is part of the City of Paris's programme of raising its image ahead of the 2024 Games

Paris museum closed its doors after union officials protest about angry public and poor security measures

Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice shows Tadao Ando’s designs for the Bourse de Commerce building

Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral

We talk about the effects of the fire at Notre Dame, the building’s history, and what happens next. And we speak to satirical artist Christopher Spencer, the man behind Cold War Steve. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

The Belgian, known for his sculptures in a Northern European Gothic style, is already devising a new spire

Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns have launched since the fire

The 19th-century spire has collapsed on the medieval landmark

Artist has previously wrapped monuments such as the Reichstag in Berlin

A sign of the times, two of London and Paris’s oldest firms closed their premises in the traditional art heartlands of the cities

Alexander Khochinsky’s lawyer calls the country’s actions over a €10,000 looted painting “aggressive and disproportionate” and says his client will not get a fair trial in the “illiberal democracy”

French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020

From Paris to Chartres, US philanthropy makes its mark

The Chicago-based artist's exhibition in Paris examines the forced removal in 1911 of the inhabitants of Malaga Island

The show promises a continuum in Picasso’s work, a gentle slide, rather than rigidly compartmentalised episodes

Petit Palais exhibition explores the architect's explicit drawings and designs for unrealised buildings including a cow-shaped dairy

But the bust of Napoleon is still being restored

Officials at the Paris museum want to boost homegrown audiences and draw lower-income visitors

Get caught up in Tomás Saraceno’s webs at the Palais de Tokyo and listen to Sophie Calle’s dead cat tribute featuring Bono and Pharrell Williams

Decision allows Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent to continue using trademark of French painter Jacques Majorelle

Scholars are divided over whether either of the paintings of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy—or both of them—are copies