Visitors to the Louvre will be forced to traipse through a “Mona Lisa journey” covering a vast 32,000 square foot reception area to get a glimpse of the painting, the museum’s director has announced.

Museums and the consultants who advise them have been busy reviewing their own precautions in the aftermath of the brazen ...

The most exclusive invite during Art Basel Paris week was not for Avant Première, the fair’s new VVIP preview on Tuesday, or for any of the openings around town. It was for the Louvre. After thieves ...

Louvre president Laurence des Cars is facing mounting pressure to resign after a French Senate hearing about security lapses ...

France's National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9. Several sections of the world’s most-visited art museum were temporarily closed to ...

This onetime piece of kitchen décor will soon hang in France’s most famous museum. The painted panel that an elderly French woman discovered above her hot plate back in 2019 has been obtained by the ...

Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” (1830), oil on canvas, 102.4 × 128 inches (image via Wikipedia) What is it with art vandalism these days? First there was the Picasso at the Menil ...

Louvre employees say a series of recent high-profile incidents have highlighted how short-staffed and badly managed the ...

Seven cultural institutions in France experienced burglaries with increasingly violent methods between September and October, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The ...

Like some kind of paranoid Banksy, a woman entered a Louvre gallery today and scrawled 9/11 conspiracy graffiti on Eugene Delacroix's canvas Liberty Leading the People. The defacing happened at the ...