The Louvre is one of the most recognized and renowned museums in the world, housing some of the most famous works of art, including the Mona Lisa. This museum holds many secrets, including stolen art. While you might not be able to travel to Paris to take an official tour of the museum, here are […]
Iconic Samsung Lifestyle TV opens virtual doors to world-famous museum Samsung Electronics recently announced a new partnership with the iconic Louvre Museum. Through this partnership with the Louvre in Paris, France, Samsung will continue to develop the Art Store[1] on his lifestyle television, The Frame. With new works of art from the Louvre joining the […]
Over the past few decades, art and technology have intersected at a rate previously unimaginable – both to use technology to create art and to make art more accessible to the public. Samsung Electronics has been at the forefront of this change and has now partnered with the Louvre to help in its mission to […]
Samsung’s most iconic lifestyle TV opens virtual doors to world-famous museum Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a new partnership with the iconic Louvre Museum. Through this partnership, Samsung will continue to develop the Art Store on its lifestyle television, The Frame, through an exclusive art partnership with the Louvre in Paris, France. With new […]
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 […]
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 […]
The museum plans to store some 250,000 of its 620,000 artifacts in a new facility in Liévin. Rogers Stirk Harbor + Partners The most visited museum in the world ships a third of its collection. As Elaine Sciolino reports for the New York Times, the Louvre Museum in Paris has spent the past 16 months […]
TOKYO— Uniqlo has entered into a four-year partnership with the Louvre Museum in Paris that will see the Japanese fashion giant produce clothing lines with the museum, as well as sponsor some of its popular events. The program will launch with a collection of UT T-shirts for men and women featuring some of the Louvre’s […]
PARIS — From its bulletproof case in the Louvre, Mona Lisa’s smile encountered an unfamiliar sight the other morning: emptiness. The gallery where crowds of visitors thronged to ogle her day after day was a void, deserted under France’s latest coronavirus lockdown. Around the corner, the Winged Victory of Samothrace floated quietly above a marble […]
With more than 10 million visitors a year, the Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, and for good reason. It is also the largest art museum in the world, covering approximately 18 acres (72,000 square meters) divided into three wings: Denon, Richelieu, Sully. Each wing has over 70 rooms, and there are […]
Contents This content can also be viewed on the site from which it originated. What happens when we try to walk around at night in museums that we can no longer visit? A range of online virtual tours offer the possibility, but apart from the physical problems of reproduction – pixel resolution is insufficient, movement […]
Great museums serve many functions: they can study the world encyclopaedically, provide fascinating accounts of history, celebrate diverse forms of beauty, and project political power. They can also have an almost mythical presence. If myths tell of a society’s origins in the natural world, a great museum can do something similar, demonstrating how the world […]
(CNN) — The world’s most popular museum, the Louvre, has reopened after months of closure, but while visiting it will now be a slightly different experience, its star attraction should at least be free of crowds. The Mona Lisa, normally mobbed by people trying to get their own shot of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, can […]
GHENT, NY – It feels like another life on another planet. But it was actually last summer, when the words “social distancing” would have meant nothing to most of us, that my brother, James, drove me to a part of the Louvre museum in Paris that I had never visited before. Descending the crystal pyramid […]
A music video created by Beyoncé Knowles and Sean Jay-Z Carter and featuring them at the famous Louvre in Paris has sparked conversations about people traditionally invited to show their work – and interact with art objects – in museums . In an article published earlier this year in The international review of the inclusive […]
Keep that smile, Mona Lisa. The Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles will also remain prohibited for the time being. None of France’s three most iconic tourist sites will reopen when the country lifts most of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions next week. Some of Europe’s other major cultural sites are also taking their […]
In his brave and scholarly new book, “The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum,” critic James Gardner is bold in accepting and taking responsibility for what few mortals have the luck or stamina to do. Consider reading this book as the complete experience that you are temporarily denied today, or that […]
At the Louvre, the Mona Lisa is flanked by guards who usually help move the crowd through the crowded Salle des Etats. But after staff forced the Paris museum to close on Sunday due to safety concerns related to the spread of the coronavirus, their routine changed. Now the guards stand still and visitors must […]
The museums of Paris offer a wide selection of art and objects to appreciate. You will find around 130 museums within the city limits. The Louvre is the best known. It is a world-class museum showcasing masterpieces like the mona-lisa and the Venus de Milo – and it’s huge. I recommend going to taste this […]
There’s something about his dark chocolate eyes, smirk and absent eyebrows that adds an element of mystery and fuels conspiracy theories. Maybe that’s why the mona-lisa, completed by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s, is the most visited (and most parodied) painting in the world. You cannot visit the Louvre and not […]
It is perhaps the most iconic art museum in the world. Located in Paris, the Louvre (officially the Louvre Museum) has admitted thousands of cultural objects and millions of admirers since opening its doors on this day in 1793. A guided tour is always best, but if you can’t make it to the Right Bank […]
Once a place of debauchery carried out by various Kings Louis and their royal courts, the Palace of Versailles will open its doors to the public this summer to host its very first evening of electronic music. In short, yes, there will be rave in the former playground of Marie-Antoinette. What, you thought that the […]
Since the tragic fire of Notre-Dame de Paris, no one talks about anything other than its reconstruction. It is a noble project. It will be a spectacular project. But it is also the sign of great ingenuity, even pretentious naivety. Certainly, we have the necessary materials: the oaks for the framework devastated by the flames, […]
The Louvre is the largest museum in the world and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history. (Image credit: kan_khampanya Shutterstock.com) The Louvre is the largest museum in the world and houses one of the most impressive art collections in history. The magnificent Baroque-style palace and museum – LeMusée du Louvre in […]
Chinese tourists can now enjoy its own “Château de Versailles”, a baroque art museum transformed into a factory by its owner in the city of Qingyuan, located in the province of Guangdong, in southern China. As the first art museum of its kind in both the city and the province, it replicates the interior design […]
In honor of architect IM Pei’s 100th birthday, we delve into the history of the Louvre: a cultural hub that predates it by some 700 years, but owes much of its current dynamism to its renovations in the 1980s . But first, let’s go back in time. The museum dates back to the 12th century, […]
One of the oldest human illusions is that culture is a conquest or an escape from nature. It is an illusion that we must abandon quickly. We might harbor a desperate dream that while the benign post-glaciation climate that made civilization possible is destroyed by our own folly and greed, our own creations will survive. […]