PARIS: A French journalist’s investigation into the alleged forgery network around art collector Giuliano Ruffini has also criticised the “great negligence”...
PARIS: It was to be a highlight of the art calendar: 230 works by impressionist master Henri Matisse gathered at France’s leading modern art museum to mark...
PARIS: Marjane Satrapi is famous for her films and graphic novels, but the artist, who was nominated for an Oscar for “Persepolis” -- based on her graphic...
PARIS: A researcher claimed Tuesday to have discovered the exact spot where Vincent Van Gogh painted his last canvas before his mysterious death from a...
PARIS: It is the most explosive Paris exhibition of the summer -- Mount Vesuvius erupting several times a day in a new immersive 3D show which opened...
The newly reopened Ingres-Bourdelle collection of classic paintings in Montauban, southern France, will allow access on weekends starting May 16 ERIC CABANIS...
PARIS: The world’s most famous painting, the “Mona Lisa,” is to be moved so her room in the Louvre can be spruced up, the Paris museum said Friday. Leonardo...
PARIS: She was one of the great beauties of antiquity, and soon we are going to find out what the “Venus de Milo” smells like. The Louvre in Paris has asked...
PARIS: A newly discovered version of Eugene Delacroix’s Orientalist masterpiece, “Women of Algiers” went on show for the first time in Paris Thursday. The...
FONTAINEBLEAU, France: An exquisite 19th-century French theater outside Paris that fell into disuse for 1 1/2 centuries has been restored with the help of a...
PARIS: Art expert Eric Turquin is not only convinced that a canvas found in the attic of an old house in southwest France is a Caravaggio - he actually...
PARIS: It was once decried as an architectural “obscenity,” but as the Louvre’s glass pyramid turns 30 Friday, it has become a cherished icon of the French...
PARIS: A startling exhibition in the French capital, drawn from the Arab world’s biggest private art collection, shows the dizzying mix of cultures in the...
PARIS: The head of France’s greatest collection of African art has hit back at a report urging the return of thousands of artworks to the countries from which...
PARIS: When street artist Banksy destroyed one of his works of art last week seconds after it was sold at an auction, he probably added to its value, with...
PARIS: Two new major exhibitions in the French capital counterpoint the work of a pair of art world rebels Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele. Although the...
PARIS: The contemporary art market is booming with Chinese artists helping to push prices up by nearly a fifth in the past year, the world’s biggest art index...
ROME: They left war-ravaged Syria, family and friends behind them. France was where they were aiming for. A Greek island was where they ended up. Now, five...
Ecatepec, Mexico: Pope Francis celebrated an open-air mass with 300,000 Catholic faithful in a crime-plagued Mexican city on Sunday, urging them to create a...
Vatican City: Pope Francis heads to Africa for the first time on Wednesday on a trip aimed at pushing the key themes of his papacy but also fraught with...
HAVANA: Pope Francis delivered mass Sunday before hundreds of thousands of fans and faithful on Havana's iconic Revolution Square, calling Cubans to serve the...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis Tuesday called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year -...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is to warn that global warming threatens the planet and declare a moral imperative to reduce fossil fuel consumption, Vatican...
COLOMBO: Pope Francis urged respect for human rights in Sri Lanka as he began a two-nation Asia tour on the island Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and...
TIRANA: Pope Francis warned during a visit to Albania on Sunday that religion can never be used to justify violence, making apparent reference to the...