Mona Lisa: New Dedicated Room And Separate Ticketing Announced
President Macron visited the Louvre today to unveil an ambitious plan for the world’s most popular Museum, promising a “New Renaissance”….
28 January 2025
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France Set To Release Recommendations On Cultural Restitution
France is set to release their long-awaited policy report on the restitution of cultural property—the guidelines for returning looted artworks from Nazi occupation and stolen artefacts from the colonial period.
4 May 2023
Museum Visitor Figures Bounce Back Following Disruptive COVID Pandemic
Following the uncertainty and disruption caused by lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gallerygoers are finally returning to exhibitions at major museums worldwide.
28 March 2023
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Biopic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Bio-Pic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
9 January 2023
UK And France Export Bar For Cézanne And Chardin Paintings
The UK Government has placed an export bar on ‘Ferme Normande, Été’ (Hattenville) 1882 by Paul Cézanne to allow time… Read More
4 April 2022
Louvre Settles Legal Dispute With Cy Twombly Foundation – NFT Mistake: Bored Ape sells for $3,000 Not $300,000 – Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain Exhibited
Louvre Settles Dispute With Cy Twombly Foundation – Bored Ape NFT sells for $3,000 Not $300,000 Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain
13 December 2021
Netflix Takes On Gardner Museum Heist – Why Saudi Arabia Refused To Loan Salvator Mundi – theVOV A New Virtual Arts Ecosystem
Netflix Takes On Gardner Museum Heist – Why Saudi Arabia Refused To Loan Salvator Mundi – theVOV A New Virtual Arts Ecosystem
15 April 2021
Cy Twombly Foundation Louvre Lawsuit – Nazi Era Klimt Painting Returned – Gerhard Richter Holocaust Panels Permanent Loan
Cy Twombly Foundation Louvre Lawsuit – Nazi Era Klimt Painting Returned – Gerhard Richter Holocaust Panels Permanent Loan
17 March 2021
Jeff Koons Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal – Rare Van Gogh Montmartre Painting Auctioned – Louvre’s Renovation Of Cy Twombly Gallery an Affront
Jeff Koons Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal – Rare Van Gogh Montmartre Painting Auctioned – Louvre’s Renovation Of Cy Twombly Gallery an Affront
25 February 2021
Louvre’s 72% Visitor Drop – Wildenstein Family Back In Court – Richard Serra’s Qatar Sculpture Defaced
Louvre’s 72% Visitor Drop – Wildenstein Family Back In Court – Richard Serra’s Qatar Sculpture Defaced
9 January 2021
School of Paris Rendez-Vous at Louvre Abu Dhabi – Paul Carter Robinson
The influx of immigrants into any vernacular urban culture has always been a gamechanger, and there is no better example than Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
22 September 2019
Louvre Removes Sackler Name From Galleries After PAIN Protest
Musée du Louvre has removed or taped over all references to the Sackler Family in response to protests from organisations including Nan Goldin’s PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now group.
17 July 2019
Louvre Set To Open Today After IS Inspired Machete Attack
A man, who attempted to attack the Louvre museum in Paris yesterday (Friday 3 Feb) has been identified by authorities as Abdullah Reda Refaei al-Hamamy, a 29-year-old Egyptian man.
4 February 2017
Paris Museums Suffer As Terrorism Scares Off Foreign Tourists In 2016
The most popular galleries in Paris have seen a steep decline in foreign visitors in 2016. This has been blamed on the terrorist attacks in the city in 2015 and Islamic incidents in other parts of France. The Louvre dropped by a whopping 20% to 5.3 million with the Musee d’Orsay’s down 13% to three million.
7 January 2017
Louvre Recovers Painting Stolen In WWII
More than six decades ago, during World War II, a painting of French King Henri III (1551–89) was stolen from… Read More
22 October 2014
Louvre To Launch New Islamic Art Galleries In September
The Louvre is to launch its new Islamic Galleries on 22 September. The galleries will provide a permanent home for the Museum’s unrivalled Collection
24 July 2012
Get Closer To The Mona Lisa With Nintendo 3DS
The Louvre Museum in Paris – the world’s most visited art museum – has seen its audio guides replaced by… Read More
12 April 2012
Louvre Denies Google Art Project World Domination
Google Art Project has partnered with some 51 of the world’s greatest museums and cultural centres to bring us a Google Street View-style insight into their art collections.
10 April 2012
Mona Lisa Theft Louvre To Mark Centenary
The theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has its centenary this year. The painting was stolen on August 21, 1911.
28 June 2011