The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., shows that the French capital was the place to be for forward-thinking American women

The first survey of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City

The spiritual side of space, colour and light preoccupied the modernist artists who gathered in Munich before the First World War

The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games