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NEWS ABOUT: The Louvre

The Louvre stories: 12 news summaries

 China To Scour 
 Museums for 
 Looted Art 

Artifact team will hunt for Imperial Gardens booty

Oct 22, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is about to send teams of artifact hunters to the world's top museums to track down looted art treasures. They'll be on the lookout for art from the splendid Imperial Gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan, more commonly known as the Old Summer Palace, which was used by Chinese emperors... More »

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China • art • museums • British Museum • The Louvre • Metropolitan Museum of Art • looted art • summer palace

 Zut Alors! 
 French 
 Attack 
 Big Macs 
 at Louvre 

Wake up and smell the French fries, Mona Lisa

Oct 5, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - News that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works... More »

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McDonald's • France • museum • The Louvre

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

Angry Russian Hurls Cup
at Mona Lisa

Really, really miffed that she was denied citizenship

Aug 11, 09 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the... More »

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Russia • art museum • France • citizenship • Mona Lisa • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

 First Family Lives It Up in Paris 

Sasha and Malia make their first trip to Europe

Jun 8, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's whirlwind trip overseas ended with family time in Paris, as Michelle, the first daughters, and their grandmother joined him for a weekend on the town. It was the girls' first trip to Europe. They wrapped up the action-packed weekend on Sunday with a trip to the Centre Pompidou,... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • Nicolas Sarkozy • Paris • The Louvre • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama

 Louvre May Have Found New Leonardo Sketches

Three drawings found on back of painting

Dec 18, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Curators from the Louvre have discovered three sketches on the back of Leonardo da Vinci’s oil painting "Virgin And Child With St Anne" that may be by the master himself, the AFP reports. Museum workers noticed two barely visible sketches, of a horse’s head and a human... More »

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France • art • painting • artist • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

 Easter Island Statue 
 Plans Paris Pilgrimage 

'Moai' aims to change humanity's 'materialistic conscience': government

Dec 16, 08 6:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A “moai”—one of the giant statues of elongated heads on Easter Island—will travel to Paris in 2010 on a mission to challenge the “materialistic conscience” of the world, the Independent reports. Representatives of the Pacific island’s government said the statue had made its wish... More »

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post materialism • Louis Vuitton • France • Paris • The Louvre • Easter Island • moai

(AP) - Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed the Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV series Leave It to Beaver, will have one of his abstract sculptures on display at the Louvre. Several sculptors from the Karen Lynne Gallery, including Dow,... More »

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television • sculpture • The Louvre

Jackie's Charm Sparked US Visit by Mona Lisa

First lady persuaded French to loan painting, boost our culture

Oct 9, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jackie Kennedy executed a diplomatic coup in 1962, when she convinced the smitten French culture minister to send the Mona Lisa on a perilous journey. The painting's visit to the US—"then regarded as a country with hardly any culture at all," in the words of one historian—... More »

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France • art • John F. Kennedy • Mona Lisa • The Louvre • Cuban Missile Crisis • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Andre Malraux • Charles de Gaulle

 Ambitious Director
 Revives the Louvre

Henri Loyrette has global ambitions that grate traditionalists

Jul 29, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - France's publicly funded museums once eschewed the big-money efforts that are common in American art institutions. Not anymore. BusinessWeek profiles Henri Loyrette, the ambitious director of the Louvre in Paris, who has coaxed major corporations to pony up cash, rented out its galleries for the filming of The Da Vinci ... More »

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art museum • France • art • museum • Paris • Abu Dhabi • The Louvre • Henri Loyrette

 Jean Nouvel Wins Pritzker Prize 

Pritzker jury praises Guthrie designer Jean Nouvel's 'inquisitive mind'

Mar 31, 08 2:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French designer of the Arab World Institute in Paris and Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater has won architecture's top award, the Pritzker Prize, reports the New York Times. Jean Nouvel’s projects "greatly expanded the vocabulary of contemporary architecture,” the Pritzker jury noted. “His inquisitive and agile mind... More »

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architecture • Abu Dhabi • The Louvre • honor • Jean Nouvel • Pritzker Prize • Guthrie Theater • Arab World Institute

France Will Offer Free Museums

Culture ministry scraps entry fees in pilot program

Oct 24, 07 7:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wandering leisurely through one French museum after another—priceless, right? Exactly, as of January 1, when the French culture ministry opens 14 of the country's museums to visitors free of charge. The pilot program, a campaign plank for Nicolas Sarkozy, is being greeted skeptically as columnists debate whether the policy... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • museums • The Louvre

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