It’s February 1964 in Gothenburg, in southwestern Sweden. Journalist Åke “Dacke” Axelsson and gallery owner Yngve Funkegård manage to fool the art world by exhibiting five paintings by the “French painter” Pierre Brassau.

To address the security lapses highlighted by these incidents, the French government has decided to implement a plan consisting of 33 measures based on work carried out by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Architecture.

Released in 2010, Banksy’s feature film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” chronicles the spectacular and controversial rise of Thierry Guetta.

Known for dressing and enhancing the looks of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and for designing costumes for more than 200 films, fashion designer Giorgio Armani is now the subject of a major television series directed by Ferzan Ozpetek.

The news has just broken: the City of Paris will rename Maurice-Barrès Square in honor of Lucie Dreyfus, the wife of the wrongfully convicted French captain.

The 60-meter-long space, located on the first floor of the Denon Wing, will no longer display its precious artifacts and will instead return to its original 17th-century purpose as a “ceremonial gallery.”

On May 11, 2003, at 4 a.m., an alarm suddenly went off at the Vienna Museum of Art History, which was undergoing renovations at the time.

On the shores of the Mediterranean, about 100 kilometers from Alexandria, Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed eighteen tombs dating from the Ptolemaic or Roman periods, between 322 B.C. and 395 CE.

After hours of sifting through fragments and brushing away dust, a rough surface slowly gives way to unexpected finds — a receipt, a school assignment, a horoscope, a wine delivery slip.

The news outlet Lille Actu reports the story: a work of immense value was discovered in the home of a Lille resident.