Art market professionals in France are on the defensive as a European Union directive threatens to undo the country’s long-percolating art market growth overnight. The E.U.-wide rule, which was ...
If they had failed, there was a high risk that VAT would be raised to 20% before 1 January 2025, which would undoubtedly have broken the dynamics of the French art market, now the fourth largest ...
On May 29, 1957, over 300 works from the Robert Lehman Collection—spanning Renaissance masterpieces to 19th-century ...
SelectionHere is Le Monde's selection of must-see art exhibitions, from painter John Singer Sargent to medieval forgeries to contemporary Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga, which will go on display ...
Accused of pandering to the far-right ahead of France’s federal election in 2022, President Emmanuel Macron attempted a balancing act. In January 2021, Macron’s party said it would create a “memories ...
Turkish creativity is taking center stage in Paris, turning art, archaeology and photography into a shared conversation between cultures ...
Peng Liyuan, wife of President Xi Jinping, has expressed the hope that artists from China and France, which are both major ...
The authorities will ask France to return around a hundred works of art, government spokesman and Communications Minister Sidi Toure announced following a cabinet meeting. "Ivory Coast has drawn up a ...
THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...