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Arts Council England must remain free from interference to ensure artistic freedom, says report by Labour peer

Ioan Pintaru stabbed the girl ‘furiously’ with a knife in Leicester Square

Italian prime minister’s charity sale may also feature presents from Narendra Modi, Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on his bike rides around Baltimore

San San F Young’s passionate documentary records a vibrant creative scene that continues to resist Beijing’s repression

The Louvre Museum closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a strike to protest working conditions and security failures at the Paris landmark, two months after a jewel heist.

Nothing radiates festive spirit quite like a tinsel-covered tree, and this year, we're taking cues for our December manicures...

The crunch vote comes as the museum struggles with the aftermath of a daylight jewel heist

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