The architecture graduate tasked with recording Notre-Dame’s renovation—in pencil and chalk
Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes
Out of the ashes: how Notre-Dame has been resurrected in a miraculously short time
Faith, politics and emotion have fused in the rebuilding of the Paris cathedral partially destroyed by a fire in 2019
The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last
Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027
A dual social and artistic purpose: London's Whitechapel Gallery to screen films by Jarman Award nominees
Ahead of the announcement of the 2024 Film London Jarman Award winner on 25 November, Whitechapel gallery will show entries by all six shortlisted artists
Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble
The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement
Turning 21 with a bang: Frieze's revamped tent brings emerging galleries to the fore
The fair’s location in Regent’s Park is both a boon and a bind: but this year designers have reconfigured Frieze London’s layout to improve the experience for visitors and galleries alike
Igloos, trees and ice: Arte Povera and its legacy explored in Paris exhibition
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev delays her retirement to curate Bourse de Commerce show highlighting many artistic firsts
Olafur Eliasson will blur advertising billboards in London, Seoul, New York and Berlin
The Danish-Icelandic artist is unveiling a series of out-of-focus videos, Lifeworld, on 1 October
Rachida Dati has been reappointed as France's culture minister—but does she have the will to protect heritage?
The debacle over the commissioning of Notre-Dame's stained-glass windows highlights the politician's propensity to ignore expert advice
‘Dalí wanted his mouth to be very realistic’: fabled lip sofa prototype at heart of new Surrealist show in Paris
An exhibition of furniture at Galerie Poggi highlights the achievements of the mid-century Spanish design company BD Barcelona Design
‘A collective adventure’: Paris exhibition celebrates a century since the birth of Surrealism
André Breton’s rarely seen handwritten Surrealist manifesto will take centre stage at a Centre Pompidou exhibition, which includes masterpieces of the movement and gives prominence to overlooked artists
UK general election: the dawn of a new era for the arts?
We look at the impact of 14 years of Tory rule on the culture sector—and ask if the future looks any brighter
Francis Alÿs shows that child’s play is a serious business
The Belgian artist transforms the Barbican Art Gallery into a cinematic playground
Mika Rottenberg: ‘Giant things are often triggered by tiny reactions’
The “silly but serious” artist’s experiences at the world’s largest particle accelerator at Cern have helped to shape her expansive retrospective at Museum Tinguely
New encyclopaedia makes Africa’s distant past relevant to today and tomorrow
Project aims to help seasoned researchers unlearn biases and the next generation of archaeologists to find inspiration
From audioguides without men to a new women's museum in London, here's how the art world is celebrating International Women's Day
We've compiled a list of exhibitions of events whose impact on foregrounding women artists is likely to live on beyond one calendar day
Museums in the firing line as UK council funding crisis bites
Local authorities in England are taking drastic action, including scrapping all funding for museums, leading some experts to argue that new funding models are the only way to survive
An-My Lê: the artist portraying the inhuman scale of war and small acts of resistance
Airlifted out of Vietnam as a teenager when Saigon fell, the Vietnamese American photographer makes no attempt to simplify the unbearably complex, and pits individual agency against huge geopolitical forces
New art project seeks to capture the sounds of migration
The initiative is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Cities and Memory, which since 2015 has been forming a sound map of the world
Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre
Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection
Confronting Land Art and the Western frontier: Lucy Raven on how the two US cultural legacies influenced her new works at Dia Chelsea
New York-based artist's exhibitions opens at Dia Art Foundation's new and improved space in New York
Robots and submarines: France's new state-of-the-art ship is a game changer for marine archaeology
Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage
Sophie Taeuber-Arp survey reveals the dizzying range of work by the Swiss artist
The major travelling exhibition opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel before travelling to London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Slowing the news: artists commissioned to document a US election year through the act of drawing
The final part of an exhibition, delayed by the unprecedented events of 2020, opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Bourse de Commerce: opening of Pinault's long-awaited Paris museum is—pandemic permitting—finally around the corner
Two decades since the billionaire started planning a home for his collection in the French capital, the spectacular space is due to open on 23 January
Major museum openings and expansions in 2021
From the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum to the Frick’s move to a Brutalist landmark, here are the building projects aiming to change cultural landscapes around the world
Can artists change the world? MoMA show explores political art from the early 20th-century
The works on paper from the Merrill C. Berman Collection include designs for Communist posters and salad oil advertisements
Uyghur civilisation in China continues to be erased as part of chilling mission
Australian think tank data reveals that two-thirds of the region’s mosques have been either destroyed or damaged
Incarceration is part of the American experience for many—its art is explored in a major new show at MoMA PS1
Exhibition in New York will include works made by those who are part of—or who have ties to—the largest prison population in the world
When did just looking at art lose its appeal?
Sleep in Hopper’s motel room or dive into Monet’s pond—museums are increasingly going beyond traditional exhibition formats to attract visitors