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The Louvre has everything — except for a decent place to eat
There are many ways to look at the Louvre but writer Elaine Sciolino invites us to view the largest museum in the world ...
Leave It to Jordan Roth to Try on the Louvre Pyramid as a Skirt
The Broadway producer and fashion fanatic closed out Paris Couture Week with a performance piece at the museum that had him ...
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The Louvre Is Asking Architects to Submit Their Design Ideas for an Ambitious $316 Million Expansion
The Paris museum has launched a competition to design a new entrance and underground exhibition spaces, including one ...
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Louvre Launches Design Contest for $400 Million Expansion, Including a New Room for ‘Mona Lisa’
The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...
Louvre: 'We want to find a lasting solution to overcrowding'
The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...
Art that Moves: Jordan Roth and Laurence des Cars on Crafting a One-of-a-Kind Performance Piece at the Louvre
Next Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule has ended, an altogether different show will ...
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Competition: Musée du Louvre, Paris
A major international competition has been launched for the €135.7 million transformation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris ...
Chanel Supports Cinema Paradiso at the Louvre, Brings Sofia Coppola for Opening Night
The house has partnered with MK2 to sponsor the four-day film festival for the first time since its move from the Grand ...
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The Louvre Invited 100 Contemporary Artists to Copy—and Reinterpret—Its Masterpieces. Here's What They Made
One hundred contemporary artists received the same invitation: “Imagine a copy of a work of your choosing from the collections of the Musée du Louvre.” The instructions were vague and open-ended, but ...