Paris

The multimedia art ‘experience’-cum-independent Soviet state recruited a cast of 400 to live on an enormous film set for years

For his show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the artist created an interactive ‘parcours’ to shed new light on humanity’s changing relationship to nature

Why the yellow high-visibility vest is a paradoxical symbol for the protest movement roiling France

In further news: Paris museums close after Gilets Jaunes protests; Candice Breitz demands release of aid worker

Quai Branly president says that the study commissioned by Macron ‘puts historical reparations over museums’s contribution’

In further news: San Francisco decrees 30 percent of public art must depict women; Dutch museums find Nazi-looted art

If Macron and his administration do not control the public narrative of Muslims in France, someone else will

The American artist is accused of plagiarizing an advertising campaign for his USD$3.7M Fait d’Hiver sculpture

At Perrotin, Paris, the Colombian-born, Paris-based artist superimposes opposing ideologies to explore our politically distorted perceptions

French Ministry of Culture says that it won't locate the controversial memorial to the city’s terror victims opposite the Palais de Tokyo

Naturists triumph at art gallery; soothing students with colouring books; Kanye’s architectural firm: your dose of art world madness

In further news: Yinka Shonibare organizes exhibition to resist extreme right-wing politics; Bjørn Nørgaard completes tomb for Danish queen

Retrospectives at Musée des Arts Decoratifs and Palais Galliera, Paris showcase the designer's unique ways of relating garment to body

At Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, the artist's dialogue with an 11-year-old forms the basis for a work exploring exile and migration

Madeleine Thien takes a look at a celebrated painter who merged Western composition with Chinese brush-and-ink style

The innovatively designed home of Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, remodelled by Rem Koolhaas, emphasizes the museum as flexible form

Various venues, Paris, France

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 

At once stagnant and dynamic, politically tense and blissfully buoyant, the French capital was a strange place to be living this year

A slew of shows focusing on Indian modernism in the French capital mark the 70th anniversary of India’s independence