While walking around the Louvre galleries in person is a hard experience to beat, most people can’t make it to Paris on any given weekend. Additionally, the museum can only display a fraction of its hundreds of thousands of works of art at any given time. With an internet connection, you can now see them […]
On a given trip to the Louvre in Paris, you can see only a fraction of its collection. The grande dame of museums is staggering in size and scale: about three kilometers long, if you walk its perimeter, with more than 35,000 works of art on display and 10 times as many stored. Add to […]
The Louvre’s digital offering has grown considerably in recent years, especially since the start of the health crisis. Online ticketing, social media accounts, online store, donation platform… the Louvre’s digital ecosystem covers all the needs of physical and virtual visitors who wish to stay in touch with the museum. Thanks to its accounts on social […]
The Apollon gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on January 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images The Apollon gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on January 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images One of the most massive museums in […]
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know on Tuesday, March 30. NEED TO READ Visits to museums and galleries drop 77% – the art diary‘s annual survey found that attendance at the world’s 100 most visited […]
The pandemic may have forced both culture vultures and casual museum visitors to stay away from their favorite institutions. But the Louvre imagined a very good way to bring art back to as many people as possible. The most visited museum in the world, located in the bustling 1st arrondissement of Paris, has put its […]
Louvre Abu Dhabi had a busy pandemic year, making 27 new acquisitions including the purchase of a rare painting by Georges de la Tour and a poignant work by Marc Chagall. Cologne auction house Lempertz has revealed that last December the museum bought De La Tour’s work The Brazier Girl (Girl blowing on a Braizer) […]
Building custom structures is at the heart of Valheimthe immensely popular game from Iron Gate Studio and Coffee Stain Studios, centered on establishing your own custom Viking settlements in the tenth Norse world. One player decided to take the game’s structural possibilities to the next level, building the famously intricate Eiffel Tower from the ground […]
PARIS — In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, closed doors and plummeting revenues, the Louvre is facing new turbulence: a legal battle over the color of its walls. stucco cream? Or hot terra cotta? Such are the hues of the intrigue of the palace of the famous French museum, which awaits the […]
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Shoppers line up outside a Louis Vuitton store after the Swiss government eased some of its COVID-19 restrictions, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in the Bahnhofstrasse shopping street in Zurich, Switzerland March 1, 2021 .REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) – Louis […]
PARIS — Can face masks and T-shirts save the Louvre? Probably not, but maybe they can help keep the museum’s name alive while its doors remain closed. Normally, the Louvre is one of the most visited museums in the world: 9.6 million people walked its corridors in 2019. But the coronavirus deprived it of foreign […]
One of the things I love about living in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. I would not have predicted that she, the Iron Lady, would become a privileged monument, but in this year of uncertainty, to see her peeking over treetops, between buildings, from bridges along the Seine, and bathing in the warm glow of […]