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This week, The Art Newspaper looks at three stories linking painting, museums and sculpture: a Renoir show at the National Gallery, the political debate around Kanal Brussels, and an exhibition on…

In Montpellier, the Pavillon populaire is showing Premières fois / Premières photos until 1 November. The exhibition traces two centuries of photographic innovation through pioneering images and…

In October, IFPDA’s Prints & Drawings Month turns a simple question into a curatorial debate: where should works on paper be shown? On October 19, Drawn Together: Collections in Conversation brings…

Tiffany & Co. and the Musée des Arts décoratifs have launched a conservation project in Paris devoted to Jean Schlumberger. Over four years, more than 5,000 designs, sketches and gouaches, plus 5,000…

The Louvre is bringing back “Tous mécènes!”, its public fundraising campaign. The notice appears in Le Journal des Arts on 2 October 2026.

At 79, the historian Michel Pastoureau is releasing La Couleur dans la peinture. De la préhistoire au XXᵉ siècle with Seuil. The medievalist, whose sight is affected by a rare autoimmune disease…

Le Bal in Paris is showing photographs collected by Michael G. Wilson, the producer behind the James Bond films. The exhibition looks at doubles, gaps and unexpected links between the photographer…

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is devoting an exhibition to Tintoretto through 24 January 2027. The show highlights the force of his painting while setting it alongside 19th-century artists.

The second edition of the Journées nationales des artistes takes place on the first weekend of October 2026. Across France, visitors are invited into studios, exhibitions and meetings with artists.

Unionized workers at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art are set to strike on Monday, October 5, if they do not secure what they see as a fair contract. Their deadline lands during preview week…

Tinworks Art in Bozeman is presenting Chisel & Razor: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis through April 2027, a two-part project focused on Edmonia Lewis and her brother Samuel. The…

At the Musée Paul-Valéry in Sète, an exhibition revisits Jean Vilar through the painters who worked alongside his theatre project. It shows how stage design, posters and visual composition became…