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13/04/2012 - France

Cult American cartoonist Robert Crumb on show at Paris' Modern Art Museum

Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, in the centre of the capital, is offering visitors the chance to see the first-ever retrospective in France of American comic artist Robert Crumb.

01/12/2011 - France

Paris's Musée d'Orsay celebrates 25th birthday

Paris’s Musée d’Orsay museum of 19th-century art opened its doors 25 years ago.

24/06/2011 - France - Italy

Mona Lisa will not travel to Italy, says Louvre

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa will not be travelling to her country of origin any time soon, Paris’s Louvre museum said Friday

18/05/2011 - France

Cat burglar arrested with 500,000 euros-worth of artworks

Artworks worth 500,000 euros have been seized from a suspected cat burglar just outside Paris. Drawings by impressionist Camille Pissaro and modernist Fernand Léger were among the haul.

19/04/2011 - France

French museum reopens after Piss Christ hammer attack

The museum in southern France where a controversial photograph, Immersion (Piss Christ), was attacked on Sunday, reopened Tuesday with tightened security.

Artists, curators protest at culture cuts
07/04/2011 - Focus on France

Artists, curators protest at culture cuts

The exhibition Manet, the Man Who Invented Modern Art at Paris's Musée d'Orsay is expected to pack in the crowds.

Lighting up Lyon
20/02/2011 - Culture in France

Lighting up Lyon

Urban lighting has become an essential part of the French city of Lyon's architecture, recognised as an art and a profession.

30/11/2010 - France - Belgium - India

Now available! Tintin's adventures in Hindi

Billions of bilious blue blustering barnacles! The adventures of francophone boy detective Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock are now available in Hindi.

Figures of power, magic and history from Angola
27/11/2010 - Culture in France

Figures of power, magic and history from Angola

France's first major exhibition devoted to the art of Angola is a reminder, if any were needed, that Africa has produced some of the greatest sculptors of all time, even if we will never know ...

Leïla Ghandi - crossing cultures with a camera
26/11/2010 - Culture in France

Leïla Ghandi - crossing cultures with a camera

French-Moroccan photographer Leïla Ghandi has been travelling around the world alone for 15 years - half her lifetime.

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