Big Picture

President Macron said Notre Dame would be rebuilt within five years and would be even more beautiful. And so it came to pass

Two stunning exhibitions at the Helmut Newton Foundation celebrate the great photographer and the city he escaped from

A new museum in Giza reminds us of Europe’s deepest origins

Georgia’s disputed election has been hailed as a victory for Vladimir Putin, but murals in the capital paint a different picture

Is a new €1bn infrastructure fund the answer to Europe’s flooding problems? Or is a more drastic plan needed?

The photographer’s extraordinary images of ordinary lives get a new showing in her centenary year

We live in a time of conflict. Stuck in this doom loop of grievance and warfare, is the idea of peace in our time now little more than an impossible dream?

The French photographer took half a million pictures in his life. It took only one to restore his reputation and bring him wealth and controversy

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk has exposed yet more flaws at the heart of Russia. Could the dictator’s regime now fall?

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

Domestic football returns, full of unpredictable plotlines. But there’s one thing you can count on – the fans who make the game will continue to be exploited

Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast

It is a story that might sound familiar today: 90 years ago a football final was played as the shadow of fascism began to creep over Europe

Government and culture do not mix.. just look what happened last time

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

Forty years ago, striking miners were lied to about the EU’s role in closing pits. No wonder so many went on to vote Leave in 2016

The D-day landings didn’t just take soldiers to occupied Europe – they also delivered the trains and rail workers who helped to secure victory

Great political mantras started with “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”. Can we expect anything as inspiring in this election?

After 30 years of coverups, what really happened when a Chinook helicopter crashed in 1994, killing key personnel involved in Britain’s battle with the IRA?

Just when cinema really needs a bit of sunshine and uplift, along comes a Megaflopolis

The film festival is now about making deals, but in its early days it was about making stars, as young Europeans mixed with Hollywood’s elite

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion

In an edited extract, the author of a new book explores the eerie ruins of an abandoned resort in the island’s ‘forbidden zone’