Sylvain Fort steps down ahead of Paris gallery launch at the historic Bourse de Commerce, which has been delayed due to coronavirus

But firm says move allows it "to protect the company and its assets... we are not shuttering the business"

The commissioning project Consortium Commissions provides artists with up to $20,000 to realise their projects

Plans to remove the scaffolding around the fire-damaged cathedral have been put on hold

Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool will shut their doors from 18 March

Advocacy group has warned UK government that museums risk permanent closure due to the pandemic's effect on funding streams

The national arts-funding body will refocus some grant programmes to help individual artists and freelancers withstand lost earnings

London-based Old Masters dealer says that the works are “an unusual group to steal—neither priceless nor small fry”

Korean-born artist’s multisensory work draws on scientific concepts to explore gender and race

There are currently more than 2,770 coronavirus cases reported in Spain with 64 deaths

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges

Salon du dessin contemporain has rescheduled its dates while Salon du Dessin organisers are in discussion about whether to still open later this month

Decision comes amidst pressure from activist groups for UK museums to end their oil sponsorship deals

Near-forgotten series of striking portraits are part of a 100-strong show of works opening at the London museum this week

More than 680 cultural figures and institutions sign open letter over decision they believe "threatens an impoverished future for British creativity"

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

From the Hayward Gallery's expansive group show about trees to the erotic underbelly of the Victorian era at Tate Britain

Radical revelopment of former train station building will make way for more Impressionist works and visitors

Support group, comprising family members of 33 people who died in the 2017 London blaze, say they feel “totally disenfranchised” by the artist's latest project

The biennial's 17th edition will now only run for three months rather than six

The Paris museum held talks with union officials yesterday

Irwen was sentenced in 2016 on charges that included resisting the police at a protest she attended in 2013

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress

Austrian patron donates work to Reina Sofia and commissions new piece by Ragnar Kjartansson to be shown at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

Countries' rush to restitute objects is part of the problem, says Belgian lawyer

Italian patron is looking for an alternative site in the Spanish capital after encountering "structural problems" with Matadero's Nave 9 building

The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning

Seafront commission, which references the invasion of Iraq in 2003, is part of England’s Creative Coast: Waterfronts initiative

Hakanto Contemporary, sponsored by the eco-friendly Filatex group, is directed by the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa