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

Our round-up of the latest art publications

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

In an interview in the Observer newspaper, Balshaw also discussed the controversy around Tate Britain's Hogarth show, which one art critic described as "wokeish drivel"

Online sessions will be led by artists such as Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer

The artist Refik Anadol, the museum director Thomas Campbell and the Future Art Ecosystems team at Serpentine share insights on how to thrive while working with artificial intelligence in 2024

A blockbuster show focused on Turner and Constable plus a vast survey of Nigerian modernism are also in the pipeline

Exhibition to explore David Hockney’s lifelong association with the London museum and engagement with Piero della Francesca’s “The Baptism of Christ“