Art Review
Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.”
Louvre
News
Five New Arrests Made in Louvre Heist Case
The crown jewels stolen in the brazen daylight robbery, valued at around $100 million, are still missing.
News
Louvre Heist: Two Arrested; Director Gets Support From Peers
Museum directors and curators published a letter expressing solidarity with the Louvre’s embattled director.
Features
The Louvre Heist Memes Aren’t Letting Up
One museum’s empty vitrine is someone else’s treasure.
News
Louvre Director’s Testimony Sheds New Light on Heist
Laurence des Cars pointed to long-term security issues and overdue upgrades that may have facilitated the thieves’ brazen daylight break-in.
Opinion
The Louvre Heist Was a Colonial Wake-Up Call
The stunning theft reveals more than a failure of security: It lays bare how austerity, neglect, and unresolved colonial legacies continue to haunt the museum.
Features
The Louvre Was Robbed, But the Memes Stole the Show
Digital commentators wasted no time making Pink Panther jokes and digs at President Macron as the brazen robbery gets absorbed into the online discourse.
News
Louvre Museum Closed After Dramatic Daylight Heist
Thieves made off with “priceless” jewels just half an hour after the Parisian museum opened to the public.
News
Louvre Museum Shutters as “Exhausted” Staff Go on Strike
The unplanned work stoppage closed the museum for hours on Monday, leaving visitors waiting in long lines.
Art Review
Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
Book Review
Adventures in the Louvre Is the Guidebook Nobody Asked For
Rife with descriptions of “seductive” works, the former “New York Times” Paris bureau chief’s book reads more like a travel guide than the impartial reporting of a journalist.
News
Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history.