Complexities of restitution, the relevance of the universal museum and burgeoning collections were all on the event's agenda

After a landslide victory for the Labour party, we asked museum directors, artists and art historians what they hoped the new political era could mean for culture

The picture depicting a wild pig and a trio of human figures dates from 51,000 years ago, according to researchers, and suggests that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art

The painting previously sold at Christie’s for £254,500

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Rassemblement National, New Popular Front and Renaissance politicians discuss policy areas, closing the Centre Pompidou and free entry to museums

Fellow artists Grayson Perry and Maggi Hambling have also made “non-cash” contributions

Building’s East Wing, displaying 30 paintings and examples of Chinese porcelain, will be open to visitors from July

More than 20 organisations have called for improved arts education and freedom of movement in Europe

A sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas and a Mark Wallinger film will also be shown at the celebrated UK music festival

Sara Funaro, a local councillor with the centre-left Democratic Party, reportedly took more than 60% of the vote

The artist’s image of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic, was featured in two videos posted by the National Rally’s Jordan Bardella

Meanwhile, the Royal Academy in London prepares to launch a major survey of Ukrainian Modernist art in the wake of Russia’s invasion

The decision was made in the hope that a buyer can be found to “save the” object “for the nation”

The activist was arrested after attempting to hang one of her works on presidential palace wall

The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage

Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles

An open letter has called for the public to have access to the complex during its major forthcoming renovation—and for the role of Paris’s state institutions to be protected as a result

Peter Hujar, whose work is still being uncovered posthumously, is among artists receiving acclaim

As the milestone is celebrated with a joint commission, protestors attack UBS’s record on fossil-fuel investment

The winning proposal features a tree trunk from which rings have been extracted and displayed nearby

Jonathan Yeo’s work was defaced by activists from the Animal Rising group

Signs on show across London’s East Bank highlight the endangered rhyming dialect

Clore Duffield organisation will back the creation of extra learning spaces and a new garden at Tate Britain

Known as BM_ARC, the site in Berkshire houses around 1.3 million objects from the London museum and is intended for scholars as well as members of the public

The college—an alma mater of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst—faces a restructure and more than 130 possible redundancies

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In her latest book, the veteran UK journalist recalls her many encounters with artists such as Salvador Dalí, Howard Hodgkin and the Chapman brothers

Rachida Dati tweeted about implementing a penal policy to combat the vandalism of works of art following an attack on a Monet masterpiece

We spoke to cultural historians, former ministers and museum directors about the changes they hope to see for the culture sector—and crucially, who they will vote for