This Saturday, over 3,000 museums in France and across Europe are opening their doors for free. Le Monde has selected unique events and visits to enjoy throughout France.

Long perceived as unsettling, the female genital area has been subjected for millennia to more or less invasive acts aimed at ...

The exhibition’s titular themes of sex and solitude are explored through drawings, paintings, photography, embroidery, ...

AS they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable ...

Orsay Museum lets visitors watch art restoration, usually done behind closed doors, as experts scrape 50 years of grime off a ...

Over the next year, specialists at the Musée d’Orsay will work to restore "A Burial at Ornans" by Gustave Courbet in full ...

A Burial at Ornans made Gustave Courbet an enemy of the French art establishment. Now, the life-sized masterwork is ...

Paris' Orsay Museum has thrown open to the public a process that often happens behind closed doors. The cleaning and repairs ...

In a quiet corner of Paris’ bustling Orsay Museum, art restoration is now unfolding in full public view. Behind glass panels, ...

Paige Crosland Anderson has found inspiration for her artwork in the quilting patterns used by her grandmother. She started using those patterns in her art before she became a mother. As she embraced ...

Xiang isn’t the only one who started her career as a teenager. A self-taught artist and photographer, David Uzochukwu, 26, began their career at 15 years old. One year later, they exhibited a ...