The cultural grand tour of Europe will have another stopping off point from this week – Metz, the Bilbao of the North. President Nicolas Sarkozy will officially open a €86m (£74m) branch of the ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the work with ...

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

This review of Shigeru Ban’s Centre Pompidou-Metz first appeared in the Architectural Review ‘Centre Pompidou is the only public monument the ’70s have produced,’ pronounced Reyner Banham in these ...

Here are some photographs of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France by architects Shigeru Ban of Japan and Jean de Gastines of France, which will open to the public in May. The undulating laminated timber ...

In honor of International Museum Day, we're taking a look back at the 21st century's most exciting museums. The following is an excerpt from the recently released book, The Architecture of Art Museums ...

Reporting from Metz, France — I came late to contemporary art. If a work wasn’t by Rembrandt or Van Gogh, I wasn’t interested. But I had friends who were, and gradually the questions asked by the ...