Last month’s conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo

Held in the Alexandre family for generations, the painting is considered a time capsule

The exhibition will contain works by 24 artists, from three pivotal historical moments: 1960-70, the revolutionary era, and the post-war period

Also, Meyer Vaisman's grandiose taxidermies and Elaine Strutevant's almost-replicas

Warnings that the French government's proposed VAT hikes will undermine the country's standing in the global art market

A scheduling clash and an unfriendly tax environment slowed business at most fairs

Works held at Belgrade National Museum are the subject of new restitution claim

The space aims to celebrate cultural diversity in the Middle East

Policy decrees that works determined to be fake must be handed over to the authorities so that they cannot re-enter the market

Christie's Paris sold the work to an anonymous phone buyer

September launch will complete “Grand Louvre” project

The Da Vinci effect

The drawings will also be in their own catalogue, separate to the rest of the exhibition

Pieces were seized from three auction houses, a lawsuit is now pending

The auction was moved to Drouot after commisaire-priseurs' took objection to court-directed sales legislature being overlooked

It will be the first Modigliani show in Paris for 40 years

Compare and contrast the last decade of the master's oeuvre

They are expected to fetch over €1 million

Fake invitations cause chaos, and the culprit remains on the lam

Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family

Until 18 April

At the liberation of Paris, Picasso declared, “I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict. But I have no doubt that the war is in these paintings.” This exhibition sifts the evidence

After an emergency ruling, the Louvre retains five Italian paintings that were salvaged after the war and the aggrieved Gentili family must now await appeal. Meanwhile, the Musée national d’art moderne has approved the return of more works

Why not have a museum masterpiece over your mantle?

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless

Also, Richard Hains's logo-mania and Robert Malaval's regurgitations

The sculptures of Louise Nevelson and political paintings of Léon Golub, from the US, the ArtePovera of Alighiero Boetti from Italy, the historic legends of Anselm Kiefer and wax figures of Thomas Schütte, both from Germany