In Brief
The Louvre Will Offer Private Tours for Just $34 During Closed Hours
The new program, created in partnership with Airbnb, is designed to attract locals to the museum at times when it's not crowded with tourists.
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In Brief
After Diplomatic Squabble, Italy Agrees to Lend France Its Leonardos for Major Exhibition
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
Over 7.36 Million People Visited the Metropolitan Museum in 2018
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
Louvre Launches a Free Admission Night to Attract Low-Income and Younger Visitors
Starting January 5, the Louvre will offer free admission on one Saturday night every month, to "democratise" its patronage.
In Brief
Woman Barred from the Louvre for Her Attire
Australian social media personality Newsha Syeh says she was unjustifiably berated by guards at the Louvre for her choice of outfit.
Opinion
Can Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Louvre Video Change Perceptions of Who Belongs in Museums?
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
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Return to the Louvre in New Music Video, Picking the Greatest Hits
But the pop music royals stick to the museum's main attractions in "Apeshit."
News
Activists Pressure Louvre to Drop Oil Company Sponsorship with Die-in
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
Giant Monet Painting Discovered in Louvre Storage and Returned to Japan
Missing for almost 60 years, the painting was found severely damaged in a Louvre storage facility.
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Is Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi” Going to the Louvre? [UPDATED]
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
The World's Most Instagrammed Museums, from the Louvre to the Museum of Ice Cream
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
Too Lewd for the Louvre, Boinking Building Sculpture Nixed in Paris
"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.