PHOTO: 32 French towns replace advertising posters with... works of art Project aims to ‘bring a ray of light into people’s lives’ with over 1,000 spaces being converted
Van Gogh’s final years exhibition extended for another year It will be closed from September 30 to October 18 for additional works to be hung
Multi-million euro private art collection to be auctioned in Paris in October Furniture pieces will also be sold alongside paintings
magazine Iconic 'French liberty' painting returns to the Louvre Symbol of France returns to museum after six months of repair work
How art therapy is proving a lifeline for patients in Lille Scheme brings patients together to escape from their condition and to socialise
Couple buy Picasso plates for €4 at brocante - and sell for big profit The two plates have now been sold at auction in France
Hockney exhibition is one of 50 shows celebrating France-UK friendship The programme of cultural events across France will showcase work from British and French participants
American photographer Annie Leibovitz honoured in France The photographer is being inducted into the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris
Audrey Tautou moved to tell tale of artist hunted by Nazis in France Actress has left semi-retirement to star in Paris show about painter Charlotte Salomon
150 years of Impressionism: how Americans saved Monet from poverty If you visit his Normandy home you will not see a real Monet work - but there are some nearby
France and the US to host major impressionist art tour Paintings to mark the 150th anniversary of the movement will be loaned to 34 sites in France and an exhibition is also heading to Washington
Career change: Africa safari guide to recycled art in France We talk to Josie Easton about how wildlife still influences her ‘trash-to-treasure’ artwork in Limousin
Paris waxwork of American actor remade as first was ‘too white’ A second version of the controversial waxwork is to be unveiled today. The US actor has reposted a video of a comedian complaining: ‘you turned The Rock into a pebble’
Exhibition showcasing Van Gogh’s last works opens in Paris The 50 paintings and 20 drawings were made during the two months leading up to his suicide when he was producing a work a day Art historian’s guide to walking the Chemin de Compostela from France Exhibition on Banksy continues to travel through France Sensory sculpture: get in touch with art in Bordeaux
Charles Meryon’s Paris in black and white Despite the familiarity of the landmarks Charles Meyron depicted, more than 150 years later his work remains under the radar Where some of world’s best-known artists found inspiration in France ‘Paris proves people will happily pay for great art’ Plain sailing? Not for the Paris art museum inspired by a ship Good gourd! French artist turns dried fruit into art Coffin of ancient Egypt’s ‘greatest king’ goes on display in Paris
Rare painting found behind a door sold for €600k at auction in France The painting by the son of Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder was discovered during a routine inventory check
Rare painting of Flemish master stumbled upon abandoned in French home The Brueghel the Younger painting, accidentally found during a house inventory, is now set to be auctioned in Paris
France ordered to return ‘lost’ Renoir, Gauguin and Cézanne artworks The pieces were found to have been wrongfully distributed during World War Two after the death of their original art dealer, and are now held by the musées du Louvre and Orsay
Whacky waste of money or community voice - roundabout art in France From a giant kiwi fruit to a huge face, ronds-points artwork continues to divide opinion unless it is the Arc de Triomphe
Arts and culture France: singer tours aged 93, Marie-Antoinette series A round-up of the stories creating a buzz in French art, literature and entertainment
Arts and culture France: Rolling Stones plates, arthouse cinema threat A round-up of the stories creating a buzz in French art, literature and entertainment
Biennale de Lyon art fair now one of France’s key cultural events Founded in 1991, it was cancelled last year due to the pandemic, but now it is back up and running until the end of the year
Chinese vase valued at €2,000 sells for €9m at French auction The vase is of the Chinese ‘Tianqiuping’ style, and was inherited by a woman from her late mother — but experts have said the story is ‘crazy’
Exhibit celebrates French illustrator Albert Dubout’s eye for satire Dubout was famous for his drawings of cats, but also loved to depict the French people, as a new exhibition at the artist’s museum near Montpellier shows
What’s coming up this week (September 26) in France? A giant David Hockney artwork comes to complement the Bayeux Tapestry, the government presents its 2023 budget, rain moves in across France and more
Wall ads from golden age of French publicité preserved As train travel grew from the late 1800s, advertisers discovered the potential of the bare gable walls commuters passed. Today these adverts are being preserved as works of art
'Paintings from Van Gogh were not designed to float around people' Philosophers express concern over immersive art. Does it dumb down masterpieces and make us more anti-social?
Art: France’s long history of copying Old Masters at the Louvre The rules of reproduction today are strict - copies must be a fifth larger or smaller than the original - and there is a two year waiting list
Sempé was a master illustrator but also a sociologist, say cartoonists ‘He had all of what is needed; composition, graphism, colour, expressions and a great sense of what a good caption is’
French love of comic books is writ large on Angoulême walls We discover why the Charente city encourages mural artists to turn beloved bande dessinée heroes into huge works of art
Mammoth tusk, rare art: French police list haul of 7,000 stolen items A website has been set up to help return the objects - worth a combined total of around €700,000 - to their rightful owners
3D replica of 33,000-year-old cave art to go on display in Marseille The copy is based on the underwater Grotte Cosquer, which has several hundred pieces of prehistoric artwork
Discover this French cobbler’s Harry Potter-esque workshop La cordonnerie du Vieux-Nice , a shoe repair shop, opened in 2019 in the winding streets of Nice’s quaint old town
Makhilas: Discover traditional Basque walking sticks made in France The sticks have been made by the same family for seven generations, with the 94-year-old grandfather of the family still lending a hand
Connexion readers may have solved 1960s holiday drawing mystery The artist’s son asked for help identifying the scene sketched by his late father, hoping to gift his 93-year-old mother a photograph as a special birthday present
Art of trimmings: The artisans who supplied French and Monaco royals Only one firm specialising in the ancient craft operates in France. Its owners describe the challenges that their business is facing in contemporary times.
The only company making wooden jigsaws by hand in Europe is French ‘It is meticulous work but at the same time it is very creative’, says artisan
1,000 years of travel: Meandering history of France’s Bayeux Tapestry The historic artwork’s holiday to the UK may be on hold but art historian Dr Julia Faiers explains that it has rarely been stationary for long
Meet the artist behind France’s new Napoleon commemorative sculpture ‘Travel is my most important source of inspiration’, says Emmanuel Michel, whose full-length statue stands in a southern town in Occitanie
‘Trompe-l’oeil’ homage to coastguards in Brittany wins prize The painting of brightly-coloured toy boats in a bag won the best street art 2021 award
French crafts in focus: The art of cutting gems France was once a hotbed for gem cutters but now Maison Piat is one of the few remaining companies offering this service
Reflection of Egyptian statue gives French party leader ‘boobs’ Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon publishes photo of himself standing in front of the ‘Seated Scribe’ with the camera angle making it look like he is shirtless
France votes for art stolen by Nazis to be returned to rightful owners The collection includes pieces by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and French artist Marc Chagall
Explore the gardens behind Monet's colourful lily creations Visitors to Latour-Marliac gardens can see nearly 300 varieties of water lily growing in one hectare of pools, some of which are the original, restored basins from the 19th century
‘Best yet’ Mona Lisa replica sold at Paris auction for €273,000 A copy of Da Vinci’s famous painting from circa 1600 fetched a third more than its estimated price
France returns 26 looted treasures to Benin in historic handover President Emmanuel Macron met his Beninese counterpart in Paris to give back the artefacts, 130 years after they were first stolen from the former French colony
Banksy exhibition in Montpellier to raise funds for refugee charity A private collection of 250 works by the notoriously secretive British street artist is on show for free to support a cause close to his heart
French-themed books to read in October Two history reads to see us into autumn including a detailed Matisse biography and a history of Jewish art dealers in Paris, finished with a lighter choice of an ‘Emily in Paris’ style American romance
Journées du patrimoine: Meet the maker behind world's most kissed face This Parisian moulding workshop – open for one day this weekend – may hold the original mould of the Inconnue de la Seine, an unknown woman drowned in the 19th century whose face has inspired novels, artwork and even CPR dummies
Colours of the Eighties come to Calais in extensive exhibition French art movement 'Figuration Libre' incorporates elements from comic books and graffiti using bright colours and exaggerated caricatured figures
‘I was very excited about the idea of creating a museum from scratch’ In September 2017, Martine and Léon Cligman announced that they were donating 600 works from their private art collection to the State
US-born French icon Josephine Baker to enter France’s Pantheon The legendary performer will become the first black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her historic role as a singer, dancer, activist, and World War Two Resistance agent
Da Vinci’s French chateau and its digital exhibit is a Time must-see Château du Clos Lucé in the Loire Valley opened new galleries after lockdown with works including The Last Supper being blown up and projected onto the walls
Arc de Triomphe to be wrapped in 25,000 metres of fabric for art Work is underway to prepare the Parisian monument as a new installation in a series by Bulgarian artist Christo, due to be unveiled this autumn
Fruit basket artist shows creations at Cannes Film Festival A young French greengrocer's daughter - and granddaughter - makes works of art out of fresh fruit and vegetables and recently made an appearance at the prominent film festival
France buys Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom manuscript The ‘national treasure’ and shocking work of 18th-century fiction, written on a 12-metre-long scroll, has been bought with corporate sponsorship for a public library in Paris
France to launch flagship arts residency programme in America €1.2m-a-year artistic residency scheme follows prestigious and centuries-old Villa Medici model
Tetraplegic French rapper releases new album composed with his eyes The new ‘mini-album’ record by Pone will raise money to help people like him – who require tracheotomy operations to survive – to receive care at home
Mona Lisa ‘replica’ sells for record €2.9m at auction in Paris The painting is known as ‘Hekking’ after its previous owner, who lived in France and bought the piece for just €5 in Nice in the 1950s – and who believed his was the ‘real’ painting
Artwork by Petit Nicolas illustrator Sempé set for first-ever auction The artist’s work has appeared on hundreds of covers of The New Yorker magazine, as well as Paris Match and Le Figaro
French performance artist locked inside statue of himself for 7 days The artist is known for shutting himself inside objects and this latest piece sees him sitting inside a sculpture of himself for seven days and nights non-stop
Picasso painting on display near fruit and veg in French supermarket The store in Ile-de-France is showing the artwork near food items as a precursor to a new Pompidou Centre gallery opening nearby in 2025
French artist transforms Eiffel Tower with optical illusion The installation will be in place for one month before being dismantled
Instrument played by Leonardo da Vinci returns to his French chateau The arm lyre is known to have been played and loved by the Italian polymath, and is one of the instruments played in a new concert at his former Clos Lucé home
Paris Louvre uploads almost entire art collection for free online The museum remains closed due to Covid but almost half a million major works can be seen online after a super-modern web revamp. Complete digital tours available.
French ‘lost’ old master painting was on family’s living room wall The work by French Rococo artist Fragonard had been hanging unnoticed for decades
'France-UK tension over Bayeux tapestry repair plans' The Normandy tapestry is in worse condition than previously thought, throwing potential plans for the UK to borrow it into serious doubt
France to return Klimt art taken by Nazis to owners' heirs The Austrian Jewish owner of Rosebushes under the Trees died in a concentration camp in 1942, four years after she was forced to sell the piece
Why art is good for your mental health during Covid-19 Noted French neurologist Pierre Lemarquis explains the mental health benefits of art, never more relevant than during the Covid pandemic
The 'living tapestry' from a small port town in France Jane Forsyth, who retired to Port-Vendres in Pyrénées- Orientales, set up an association to produce a tapestry depicting her French home town
Hidey-hole installation set to wow visitors in Rodez The massive installation by Gilles Barbier is part of his exhibition ‘Machines de Production’ at the Musée Soulages in Rodez
Original piece of Eiffel Tower sold at auction for €275,000 A spiral staircase that was part of the tower for nearly 100 years was auctioned off on Tuesday for nearly ten times the guide price
Wrap your way to an eco-Christmas with Ancient Japanese art Dating back to 8th century AD in Japan, Furoshiki is the art of folding and knotting material to wrap presents or carry belongings
Six sculptures by British artist submerged off Cannes coast In an area designated as an 'eco-museum', visitors to Cannes can now visit underwater sculptures by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor