How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how female poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
Meet France’s self-appointed heritage sheriff
Didier Rykner is the tireless heritage campaigner with a talent for publicity who has become a thorn in the side of the French authorities
The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
How to be queer in the Arab world
Artists from across North Africa and the Middle East are expressing themselves in a sprawling show at the Institut du Monde Arabe
Mission impossible – the museum for artworks that don’t exist
A modern-day Salon des Refusés saves and celebrates unrealised and unwanted artworks in digital form
The many faces of Mary Magdalene