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Sensory sculpture: get in touch with art in Bordeaux

Samantha David reports on an innovative touring exhibition, running in Bordeaux until January 2024, which allows visitors to get touchy-feely with works of art

Whacky waste of money or community voice - roundabout art in France

From a giant kiwi fruit to a huge face, ronds-points artwork continues to divide opinion unless it is the Arc de Triomphe

Career change in France: ‘My passion for pottery now pays the bills’

Sara Wevill explains how she finally found the confidence to make a living from ceramics

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Journées du patrimoine: Meet the maker behind world's most kissed face

This Parisian moulding workshop – open for one day this weekend – may hold the original mould of the Inconnue de la Seine, an unknown woman drowned in the 19th century whose face has inspired novels, artwork and even CPR dummies

Six sculptures by British artist submerged off Cannes coast

In an area designated as an 'eco-museum', visitors to Cannes can now visit underwater sculptures by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor

French chocolatier marks Berlin Wall fall in chocolate

A French chocolatier has celebrated 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall by replicating part of the infamous structure - using one tonne of solid chocolate.

Sculptor plans ‘Brexit sculptures’ in northern France

British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley is planning to build four giant “Brexit sculptures” that would sit on the coast of northern France and look towards Britain, pending approval from French authorities.

French artist to unveil massive motorway artwork

60m sculpture was originally planned to be installed near a road in Burgundy

Big art – there’s a ghost on my house!

Dotted all around France you can spot oversized pieces of art. Samantha David on the work of CHD

French motorway art: Look out for the giant boar

Some love it, some hate it, some don’t even notice it, and French motorways are full of it. Motorway art, that is - sculptures on the side of the road across the country.

€700,000 Rodin sculpture found in a storage box

The master sculptor's 1885 work, that once sat in a Pau apartment, has been authenticated and valued by experts

Meet the artist who captured President Obama's voice in 3D

A Frenchman who made a 3D sculpture of Barack Obama's voice in one of France's 20 free-access laboratories was invited to the White House to present his work to the president. Jane Hanks talks to Gilles Azzaro

Sculpture

Sensory sculpture: get in touch with art in Bordeaux

Whacky waste of money or community voice - roundabout art in France

Career change in France: ‘My passion for pottery now pays the bills’

Journées du patrimoine: Meet the maker behind world's most kissed face

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