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The city’s artist population has fallen for the first time in decades, a report finds, for want of affordable housing

Marine Le Pen’s party is concocting plans to replace a vital, vibrant arts scene with a retrograde movement that would glorify the country’s past, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

Documentary following Laurence Philomène captures the vibrant palette of their work – and the shadows cast over it by prejudice

He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China’s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, the artist relives a momentous trip to see his mother

A new initiative by BAM, the acronym for Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, a public park in central Milan, invites locals and visitors to reflect on the values of sport through an interactive community art project launched during the 2026 Winter Olympics

South African photographer Jo Ractliffe's black-and-white images reveal the residues left by apartheid, regional conflict, population displacement and the aftermath of violence. RFI met her in Paris, where a new exhibition draws together work from the past four decades.

Painted portraits of famous figures reveal a lot about their likeness, with the mastery of artists being in their ability to capture someone's essence. Yet, they lack the true three-dimensionality and plasticity of a face. And reconstructing these elements is exactly what keeps Brazilian 3D designer and researcher Cícero Moraes…

A colossal gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump, "Don Colossus," remains uninstalled in Ohio over a year after completion. Commissioned by crypto entrepreneurs for $360,000, sculptor Alan Cottrill claims he's still owed $92,000. The project highlights crypto venture instability and shifting alliances, with the statue potentially finding a home at Trump's…

A previously unknown Michelangelo foot sketch, identified as a study for the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, sold for $23 million at Christie's. The drawing, inherited and passed down through a family for centuries, was authenticated through infrared analysis and stylistic comparisons.