Survey issued by the Comité professionnel des galeries d'art reveals the economic damage already done, with members estimating a total loss of €184m for this quarter

Paris-based auction house Piasa hosted online sale of 370 works donated by artists, designers and galleries

Exhibitors at the art and antiques fair in September will not have to pay the usual advance deposit and allowed to spread out payment over four months

Devedjian was leading plans for a museum project in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, about the reign of Louis XIV

Drunk perpetrators may have wanted to sell the items on the black market

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

Franck Riester was due to meet with representatives from the country’s arts and culture spaces about the impact of the coronavirus epidemic, but is now resting at home

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

One of the world's oldest rock art sites is now accessible through virtual reality

Lino Frongia was arrested in September as part of a major investigation involving works purportedly by Lucas Cranach, Frans Hals, Parmigianino, Gentileschi and Bronzino

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”

Two women who are part of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen were charged for topless protests, one of which was in a Paris museum

After a long-running debate, the picture, going on show at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today, has been attributed to Charles Giron

Pro-Israel arts group protested to French culture ministry about her appointment

Musée du Domaine Royal de Marly is dedicated to the château where Louis XIV partied with his favoured courtiers

The artist is the first of Algerian descent to be selected by France for the international exhibition, according to Le Monde

French customs officials have barred the return of Saint Cosmos to the US following its inclusion in a show at the Jacquemart André Museum in Paris

In honour of the victims and to promote the medium, the French culture ministry will create "a meeting, training and exhibition place"

Mathaf's guest show at Paris contemporary art centre marks Qatar-France 2020 Year of Culture

Exhibition space will show and sell digital reproductions of images from the archives of the Roger-Viollet agency and France-Soir newspaper

But restitution depends on the adoption of a law covering these specific items, while Benin secures a location to house them

After €13m expansion, French museum brings together works by painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle

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

Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years

Exhibition showing "unique slice" of art from Europe will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

A public spat between officials erupted this week in Paris over the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged cathedral and whether its historic spire should be restored as it was or a new spire built in its place

Brexit is a disaster for the UK, says the sculptor as he unveils his Field for the British Isles installation at Firstsite gallery in Colchester

The report made international headlines, recommending the restitution of African artefacts in French museums, but the country has not returned a single item to Africa

Italian court postpones decision over Lino Frongia's arrest and transfer to France until February