NewsOpenings
A bigger splash: France's expanded La Piscine museum reopens after makeover
Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture
NewsArt market
Frank Cohen’s collection goes on the block down under
Sale at Mossgreen in Melbourne has Asian contemporary focus and aims to appeal to expatriate community
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Design auctions buck the downward trend
Expanded access via online platforms has boosted the market for the masters of Modernist furniture
NewsConservation & Preservation
Renoir’s restored home becomes a museum
The French Impressionist’s former summer residence in Essoyes opens to the public in June after a major overhaul of its gardens and fin-de-siècle interiors
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: a Charles Nègre paper negative and a complete first edition of Goya's bullfight engravings
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
NewsArt fairs
Salon du Dessin bucks the trend of Paris fairs with a boost in attendance and strong sales
More than 13,000 visitors came out to see and buy works on paper at the six-day event
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Rodin's mistress Camille Claudel steps out of sculptor’s shadow with a museum of her own
French artist’s former home displays the rare works she did not destroy after their tragic affair ended
NewsEconomics
What does the election mean for France’s art market?
The country’s presidential election on 7 May could strengthen or derail the trade, with the emergence of far-right contender Marine Le Pen a particular cause for concern
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Second phase of restoration work on Mont St Michel begins
NewsHeritage
Eiffel Tower to get a €300m facelift
The 15-year plan is intended to bolster Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games and 2025 World’s Fair
NewsAuctions
Qianlong seal scooped up by Chinese collector for €21m at Paris auction
The object, owned by one of China’s longest serving emperors, sold for more than 20 times its estimate
NewsAuctions
Sex sells: Paris’s Musée de l’Érotisme collection hits the auction block
The museum in the Pigalle red light district closed its doors, but you can take home one of its naughty objects
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Work starts at château that made Louis XIV jealous
NewsConservation
Renault funds Versailles restoration project
NewsExhibitions
Kader Attia wins France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize
All four shortlisted artists share a dual cultural identity—a clear political statement by the jury at a time of rising nationalism and tensions over immigration
NewsAuctions
Cécile Bernard appointed general manager of Sotheby’s France
The Old Master specialist is a strong advocate of online business development and of promoting Paris as an international marketplace
NewsConservation
Artist transforms French cathedral treasury into an Aladdin’s cave of colour
Jean-Michel Othoniel used his trademark coloured beads to create an immersive environment
NewsConservation
Church murals by Delacroix get a fresh look
NewsExhibitions
Marie Antoinette’s personal china among Versailles treasures to travel to Australia
The largest ever loan show organised outside France will feature more than 100 objects from the historic royal palace
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Louvre-Lens to restore Le Brun lost after the French Revolution
Painting of Christ once owned by the Sun King went missing for 200 years and was almost completely obscured by age and layers of dirt
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Paris flea market turns high-tech with web debut
NewsConservation
Operation Archangel: statue airlifted for restoration
NewsAuctions
Doctors without Borders to sell rare Duchamp nude at Paris auction to fund its field operations
The painting was recently classified as a National Treasure, however, which means it cannot leave France
NewsHeritage
St Michael the Archangel takes flight
A 19th-century statue from Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy was airlifted from its perch above the island abbey to be restored
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Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?
Some staff question president Guy Cogeval's fitness to keep the post
NewsArt
Italian fast car is the star at slow French auctions
NewsArt market
Widespread forgery of avant-garde artist exposed at Russian Art Week
Expert says nearly 95% of Natalia Goncharova’s 1901-13 oil paintings are fake
NewsAuctions
Yves Saint Laurent’s partner sells art to support their charities
NewsExhibitions
Public show marks first for Kraemer Gallery
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Kapoor accused of courting controversy in Versailles
Racy comments about installations draw ire—and vandals
NewsAuctions
Artcurial auction house to sell in Hong Kong
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Where Marie Antoinette laid her head: Fontainebleau’s reinstated Turkish bedroom opens to the public
Opening marks the completion of a seven-year restoration project
NewsCommercial galleries
Left-bank galleries offer a bohemian mix of art this weekend
We pick a sampling of shows to see at Paris’s Art Saint-Germain-des-Prés festival
NewsAuctions
Duchess of Roxburghe’s estate sale to fund restoration of derelict mansion
Sotheby’s to auction the contents of West Horsley Place, including a study for Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June
NewsArt market
Family connection adds value to Vautrin’s designs
NewsAuctions
Bonnard sells well but France loses many works
NewsAuctions
Timing is key to success of Pisarro at Christie’s
NewsRestoration
Napoléon drowned, beheaded and restored
Treatment of emperor’s statue may resolve conflicting accounts of its history
NewsArt fairs
Andy Warhol's Mona Lisa sells for more than $4m at Art Cologne
New three-floor layout revived the German fair this year<br>