Culture ministry blocked export of medieval work but will the French state proceed with purchase?

Rediscovered maro 'ura will go on show at Museum of Tahiti and the Islands on long-term loan from 2021

Several institutions have closed, others have cut back their opening times as protests against Macron's retirement reforms sweep the country

Collectors and artists are scrambling to find solutions to the US government’s penalty tariffs

Strong German collector base attracts European and US galleries but the the influx of international dealers and visitors is only a trickle

New partnership with Connaissance des Arts magazine announced as third edition of the fair opens

Parisian fair dedicated to contemporary African art is gaining momentum in its fourth edition

Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education

Gallery was due to take a space in Komunuma, housed in a 1940s former manufacturing plant in Romainville, a north eastern suburb

One edition of the work has already been set alight and will gradually melt away over the course of the exhibition

Michal Rovner's video features some of London's best known landmarks

The new Institut pour la Photographie is backed by the annual photography festival Rencontres d’Arles

The politician, who also served as prime minister and Paris mayor, championed the founding of the Musée du Quai Branly

Foundation secures funds from Bernard Arnault and François Pinault towards the reconstruction of the cathedral

Tapestries, photography and sculpture feature in the US artist’s first major UK show for 25 years at Modern Art Oxford

The sculpture will now go on show near the Champs-Elysées, after previous location near the Palais de Tokyo was strongly opposed

Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested

The self-taught artist explored magnetic field energy in his kinetic works, admired by Duchamp and the American Beat poets

Though the site is due to open next spring, Koraichi has already had to bury 56 anonymous bodies to relieve overcrowding in existing local cemeteries

Piece will be fixed onto nose of an Ariane 5 launcher that will be collecting data on climate change's impact on Africa

Complaint accuses authorities of failing to protect locals from potential health risks after fire

Galleries such as Air de Paris and Fabienne Leclerc will relocate to a refurbished industrial space in Romainville

In the wake of the country's cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion, the show aims to build a more global "artists' community" in the newly renamed capital city

Bjarke Ingels-designed culture hub will be the new home of the Frac regional contemporary art centre

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

The Lucie Awards organiser plans to open a museum in the city of Kashan next April

A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier

Reservations will mainly be online as French museum anticipates record visitor figures

Less is more in the internet age, says organiser of fair which has dropped from 210 exhibitors to 176

Artist Hervé Di Rosa describes the demand as "censorship"