Musée du Louvre: Christophe Léribault, who has long been regarded as one of the most capable figures in the French museum establishment, will replace Laurence des Cars, who resigned after a short, rocky tenure. She was the first woman to direct the Louvre in its...
Activists staged an art intervention at the Louvre Museum in Paris yesterday by installing the now-iconic photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being driven from a police station after his arrest. The image, framed in a Trump-style gold mount and fixed to a public...
It’s the kind of milestone that feels both overdue and oddly inevitable. The Louvre — that great cathedral of art history, where centuries of male genius stare solemnly down from gilded frames — has made way for Marlene Dumas. The Dutch–South African painter, now 71,...
Five more suspects have been detained in connection with the daring Louvre heist that saw €88 million in crown jewels vanish in daylight earlier this month. The arrests were carried out on Wednesday, confirmed Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau in an interview with RTL...
The Louvre Museum in Paris, the world’s most visited art institution, has reopened following a high-stakes robbery in its historic Apollo Gallery. The heist occurred at approximately 09:30 local time on Sunday, 19 October. In a scene that might have slipped from the...
Are today’s madmen the same as those of the past? This is one of the many questions posed by the Louvre's new major autumn exhibition, "Figures of Madness: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics," opening on October 16, 2024. On October 2, 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures...
MCH Group, owners of Masterpiece, London's premier art and antiques fair, has cancelled the 2023 event. The fair was scheduled to take place from 28 June to 5 July. The Swiss events company, which also owns Art Basel, has revealed, "Escalating costs and a decline in...
The Louvre has settled its legal dispute with The Cy Twombly Foundation. The Museum was sued over a ceiling mural by the late painter installed in the Museum's Roman and Greek gallery. The quarrel came about when the gallery was unsympathetically renovated The...
Cy Twombly Foundation Files Lawsuit Against Louvre The Cy Twombly foundation has rejected the Louvre's justification for redesigning the Bronze Gallery space without consultation. The ceiling, one of the artist's last and largest works is a permanent installation at...