On October 19th, 2025, a group of people snuck into the Louvre and stole eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels in broad ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Following a recent jewelry heist, the famous Paris art institute is increasing admissions for select visitors and will use ...

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 ...

The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas and art market editor discuss the top sales and the wider mood in Miami, Ben Luke gets the latest on the ground in Paris and hears from curator Dita Amory ...

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 ...

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