France

The reluctant comic-book hero

A major survey of R. Crumb’s countercultural cartoons opened in Paris last month, but he remains mystified by the attention

Published online: 16 May 2012

French supermarket boss wants to put contemporary art in a countryside landscape

Michel-Edouard Leclerc plans gallery for former convent and shop complex

Published online: 15 May 2012

Pompidou at war with its US friends

President of Paris museum and chairman of American fundraisers go head to head

Published online: 03 May 2012

Pompidou plans to go global: focus is Brazil, India, China

President looks to extend the brand through a network of rotating galleries

Published online: 30 April 2012

Quai Branly sheds further light on Chauvet cave art

Ethnographic museum to lend works relating to prehistoric murals

Published online: 25 April 2012

Eliasson show due to open Paris’s Louis Vuitton museum

Frank Gehry-designed, €100m centre could open next year

Published online: 22 March 2012

Arrest in latest Prouvé fakes case

Three dealers say initial complaints were dismissed by Artcurial specialists

Published online: 13 March 2012

Mona Lisa could have been completed a decade later than thought

A drawing of rocks by Leonardo in the Royal Collection provides evidence that the artist worked on the portrait for much longer than the dates officially given by the Louvre

Published online: 07 March 2012

French police investigate allegedly fake early photographs

The works, which were sold at Artcurial Deauville, were supposedly from the artist’s family

Published online: 16 February 2012

Robert Hecht dies, aged 92

The former antiquities dealer was involved in some controversial sales to US museums

Published online: 09 February 2012

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