France has an enviable history of nurturing some of the world’s great artists – so these galleries, bookshops and record shops could be hiding the next big thing.

A round-up of the best French television, film, music and media. Plus: art from New York and Ukraine.

Clad in white coats and working with a surgeon’s precision, these Rome-based fine-art restorers are on a mission to preserve the city’s cultural heritage.

A snowy photography museum, Peruvian art in Madrid, going rural in the fight against climate change.

Japanese digital art collective TeamLab is seizing the aesthetic possibilities of technology to remaster what it means to both create and experience artworks. We took a stroll among the flowers in their brave new world.

What happens to writers, artists and film-makers who receive their craft’s most coveted gongs? We discover how plaudits can bring both success and challenges.

A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.

Palermo’s patched-up palazzos make the city the perfect backdrop to the stirring artwork on display at Manifesta, the roving biennale.

Carsten Höller’s dream works, a Danish art fair to watch and Madrid reclaims its airwaves.

With its bustling gallery scene and artist-friendly lifestyle, Cape Town is the epicentre of new South African art.

Ahead of unveiling a new artwork for Photo London, the artist – and world’s finest set designer – Es Devlin talks inspiration, hating doors and dreaming of a world in miniature.

Pop-up gallery Black Box Projects is heading to Photo London. Meet the team and, opposite, see what other galleries have planned.

With its scene buoyed by the Dhaka Art Summit, artists and architects are banging the drum for Bangladeshi art.

A group of Austrian philanthropists are working to shine a spotlight on their country’s artists.