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Giant Monet Painting Discovered in Louvre Storage and Returned to Japan

by Elena Goukassian March 2, 2018

Missing for almost 60 years, the painting was found severely damaged in a Louvre storage facility.

Posted inNews

Is Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi” Going to the Louvre? [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 30, 2017December 8, 2017

The museum’s director says he is in talks with the buyer of the record-setting painting to display it in Paris next year.

Posted inNews

The World’s Most Instagrammed Museums, from the Louvre to the Museum of Ice Cream

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

According to Instagram’s own statistics, the Louvre was the seventh-most ‘grammed place in the world and topped the museum list yet again.

Atelier Van Lieshout, "Domestikator" (2015) (all photos courtesy Carpenters Workshop Gallery, © Patrick Skrypczak)
Posted inNews

Too Lewd for the Louvre, Boinking Building Sculpture Nixed in Paris

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 4, 2017

“Domestikator,” a 40-foot-tall inhabitable sculpture that was to be part of the FIAC fair’s public art program, is shaped like two figures making whoopee.

Remnants of works destroyed by a fire in the storage building of the Musée de Tatihou (photo ©DDAGUIER-CD50, courtesy Conseil Départemental de La Manche, via Facebook)
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Three Louvre Paintings Lost After Lightning Sets Fire to Museum on French Island

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 24, 2017

Three works on loan from the Louvre were among the works destroyed in the fire on the island of Tatihou in the Channel.

The exterior of the Louvre (photo by youssef_alam/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inIn Brief

Flooding Damages Three Paintings and Multiple Rooms at the Louvre

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

France’s National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9.

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Louvre Security Staff Threaten To Strike as Blockbuster Vermeer Show Causes Disarray

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 8, 2017March 8, 2023

Security workers at the museum plan to strike on Friday, citing “constant physical and verbal aggression” caused by the recent overcrowding.

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The Risky Business of Restoring Leonardos

by Wilson Tarbox December 12, 2016December 13, 2016

After a previous Leonardo restoration project at the Louvre resulted in multiple staff resignations, the recent cleanup of “Saint John the Baptist” took place under intense scrutiny.

Posted inArt

The Real Corpses That Served as Models for the Doomed Crew of the “Raft of the Medusa”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

For his most monumental painting, Théodore Géricault borrowed corpses from morgues and asylums to capture the ghastly horror of the 1816 Medusa shipwreck.

Posted inArt

JR’s Photoshop Trompe l’Oeil at the Louvre

by Zachary Fine June 24, 2016June 26, 2016

PARIS — We have long loved our illusions.

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The Louvre and Musée d’Orsay Shut Down as Seine River Floods [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon June 2, 2016June 3, 2016

Record rainfall in Paris has caused intense and dangerous flooding of the Seine River to the extent that the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay are closing temporarily to safeguard their collections.

Posted inFilm

A Cinematic Journey Through the Louvre and a Dark Chapter in European History

by Tanner Tafelski January 13, 2016January 14, 2016

Francofonia bristles at labeling. The latest whatsit by Russian titan Alexander Sokurov moves comfortably between categories.

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