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Quai Branly president says that the study commissioned by Macron ‘puts historical reparations over museums’s contribution’

In further news: artists take National Gallery to court; Tel Aviv protests over ‘loyalty in culture’ bill

The French president has acted swiftly following a landmark study on the ownership of African treasures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition of iconic rock instruments has been criticized for only including one woman

In further news: fears grow over ‘Salvator Mundi’; Dutch government face Nazi-art lawsuit; heritage sites lost in Yemen war

Evidence suggests that social stratification in UK arts participation is caused by imbalance between funding priorities and public taste

‘We are just a body. You, the British people, have our soul’

Twitter users have been quick to think of alternative nicknames, including ‘the cotton bud’ and ‘the tadpole’

Zoe Leonard’s landmark poem revived following US midterms, Turkish arts workers arrested and union protests at MoMA PS1

A Picasso, snatched from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal Museum in 2012 in ‘the theft of the century’, has been revived in an elaborate hoax

In further news: UK threatens to leave UNESCO; Pace teams up with Christo

The museum received tens of thousands of pounds to host the Saudi embassy just days after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi 

Dancers can now wear pointe shoes that match darker complexions

In further news: Berlin cultural institutions rally against far-right; Tate Liverpool to stage first UK show dedicated to Keith Haring

The most heralded artists from the last four decades share one thing in common, according to a new study

An essay by the respected Professor Norman Geras has been flagged by the University of Reading as ‘sensitive’ under UK’s Counter-Terrorism scheme

The US artist has been told to pay €135,000 after copying a 1985 advertising campaign by the French fashion label

In further news: Italian government cracks down on art crime; and screening live arts performances fails to diversify audiences 

Artist Michelle Hartney has created #MeToo-inspired wall labels to call out the abusive actions of art history’s icons

Children from lower income families half as likely to learn a musical instrument as their richer counterparts