Former head of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris replaces Jean-Jacques Aillagon

The Dutch art historian, who worked on the Rembrandt Research Project for 47 years, made radical changes to the study of the Old Master painter

Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander

Paris museum's attempts to secure $450m Leonardo look doomed to failure, and the loser will be art history

The Vitruvian Man—normally only shown for a few weeks every six years—will travel from Venice’s Gallerie dell'Accademia to Paris

High-level diplomacy is being used to secure the artist’s most important works for blockbuster anniversary show in Paris

A new report on the status of African objects in French museums will urge the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

We exclusively reveal the details of the plans for a “historic” collaboration

The country is due to sign a massive contract with the kingdom to turn Mada’in Saleh and the Al-Ula region into a cultural tourism destination

Thousands of items, including Einstein's calculations and de Sade's writings, will return to market