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Louvre Museum Launches … a Fitness Program?
Visitors can stretch, sweat, and drop-split in the presence of priceless artifacts as Paris gears up for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
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Books
How Big Cats Once Symbolized France’s Colonialist Ambitions
Myth and Menagerie urges us to view lions as sentient beings and not as timeless, passive objects of representation for 19th-century French artists.
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French Protesters Throw Soup at Monet Painting in Lyon
“This spring will be the only one we have left if we don’t react,” said activists who targeted the protective glass on Monet’s “Le Printemps.”
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Musée de la Villa les Camélias Presents Four Decades of Painting by Mitchell Johnson
La révélation de Meyreuil explores the relationship between the artist’s early work from Europe with recent paintings made in the US.
Art
A Topsy-Turvy Van Gogh VR Experience
At the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, “La Palette de Van Gogh” lets you soar through the peaks and valleys of four major works by the artist.
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Louvre Museum Evacuated After False Bomb Threat
The Palace of Versailles was also evacuated while France continues to be under high alert.
Art
The Most Biting Memes of the Paris Bedbug Panic
You could say that these bedbugs have a certain je ne sais quoi.
News
Scientists Identify Oldest Cave "Drawings" Made by Neanderthals
Researchers say that the 57,000-year-old markings constitute "unambiguous examples of Neanderthal abstract design.”
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Dora Maar, Secrets d'atelier
The Dora Maar House presents a new special exhibition featuring never-before-seen works by the artist. On view in Ménerbes, France.
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Paris’s Louvre Museum Is Safeguarding Ukrainian Antiquities
The 16 medieval works were secretly evacuated from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike last October.
Art
A Walk in Frédérique Lucien’s Winter Garden
A new exhibition combines the artist’s uncanny bodily sculptures with her two-dimensional botanical works.
News
Understanding France's New Restitution Guidelines
Notably, the highly anticipated report released by President Macron outlines criteria for the repatriation of human remains.