In Brief
Italy's rightwing government initially refused France's request for Leonardos because it believed the Louvre exhibition would “put Italy on the margins of a major cultural event.”
News
Despite the museum's updated ticket policy undoing its universal pay-what-you-wish model, well-received exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination proved fruitful.
In Brief
Starting January 5, the Louvre will offer free admission on one Saturday night every month, to "democratise" its patronage.
In Brief
Australian social media personality Newsha Syeh says she was unjustifiably berated by guards at the Louvre for her choice of outfit.
Opinion
The "Apeshit" video is important because people of color rarely have the opportunity to claim such spaces, but it also perpetuates the dangerous notion that art is a luxury.
In Brief
But the pop music royals stick to the museum's main attractions in "Apeshit."
News
In a protest performance on Monday, activists collapsed at the foot of "Raft of the Medusa" to call attention to museum sponsor Total's climate change complicity.
News
Missing for almost 60 years, the painting was found severely damaged in a Louvre storage facility.
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News
The museum's director says he is in talks with the buyer of the record-setting painting to display it in Paris next year.
News
According to Instagram's own statistics, the Louvre was the seventh-most 'grammed place in the world and topped the museum list yet again.
News
"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.
News
Three works on loan from the Louvre were among the works destroyed in the fire on the island of Tatihou in the Channel.