Art
What Are Those Giant Painted Heads Floating in the Seine?
Some of the Louvre’s most famous works inspired a series of half-submerged installations for the Olympic games.
Paris
News
NYC Unveils 18-Foot Sculpture to Mark Breakdancing’s Olympics Debut
“Rappin' Max Robot” will spend a year in the South Bronx before going on permanent view at the Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad in Paris.
Art
Three-Time Olympic Fencer’s Vibrant Photos of Athletic Diversity
Enzo Lefort's stylized portraits of his teammates are now on view alongside works by other Olympian artists in Paris.
News
Musée d'Orsay Offers Two Guests a Free Night in Its Iconic Clock Room
The lucky winners will get to watch the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games from the Paris museum’s rooftop terrace.
News
Courbet’s Famous Painting of a Vulva Tagged With “MeToo”
"The Origin of the World" was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
News
Could the Mona Lisa Get Her Own Gallery at Last?
The Louvre Museum is considering installing the artwork in a separate underground room to improve the painting’s “disappointing” viewing experience.
News
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.
News
Will Richard Serra’s Forgotten Paris Sculpture Finally See the Light of Day?
When I broke the story about the whereabouts of “Clara-Clara,” I hoped that it would spur action by the City of Paris, which owns the work. It appears that it has.
Art
The Richard Serra Sculpture That Was Just Too Much for Paris
How did the artist's massive “Clara-Clara” (1983) end up in the backyard of a former water treatment facility on the city’s outskirts?
Comics
Mark Rothko’s Emotional Self-Portraits
An exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris shows a lesser-known side of the American artist.
News
Picasso Museum Is Showing Françoise Gilot’s Work, Finally
The prolific painter who died last June at the age of 101 forged a path of success despite Picasso's attempts to destroy her career.
Art
The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.