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Crisis-hit Paris institution still reeling from jewel heist is in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price rises

Artist JR will take over Pont Neuf, the French capital’s oldest surviving bridge, for a vast installation next summer, the City of Paris has announced. The project is inspired by another intervention 40 years earlier, which shifted the boundaries of what artists could do with France’s monuments.

The artist’s winning Turner prize entry has been hailed for its life and energy, but to some dissenting voices its challenge to the status quo is hard to stomach, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The week's best nail looks let that maximalist gene fly free.

Editorial: The UK art world is finally becoming more inclusive. But greater support must be given to the organisations that enable disabled artists to flourish

Tate stresses its departing director has ‘diversified’ the collection, but it has hidden its treasures and let its galleries slide into insulting incoherence – and visitors have voted with their absence

From contemporary art exhibitions to eccentric festivals, regional Australia has no shortage of big events over the summer of 2025-2026

Balshaw, who joined in 2017, helped steer organisation through Covid-19 and fluctuating attendance

With its soaring ceilings, meandering pathways and mesh-like walls, Taichung Art Museum, designed by Sanaa, sweeps visitors from library to gallery to rooftop garden for rousing views

Artists explore insomnia and snoozing, sculptors imagine alternative futures and we look back with a great British photographer – all in your weekly dispatch

Australian retailer tells ceramic artist Hannah Turner it won’t restock the product amid debate over copyright