Gysin was a Beat Generation artist who fell in love with the tubular structure of the building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and had tirelessly photographed its construction.

It was heavily protested during construction ... from the main square called Place du Tertre. Here’s what you should see in Montmartre: After the Louvre, the next most popular museum to visit ...

News from France (spotted via. @MWeilc) that a publication on Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller (1730–1809), a ...

They visited the historic beaches of Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach ... devastating fire just five years earlier. The original construction of the Catholic cathedral took hundreds of years. The Louvre ...

For the first time, the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a northern outpost of the historic museum, has set out to thoroughly analyze the two in an exhibition titled “The Art of Dressing: Dressing Like an ...

But rarely are the two examined together by major art institutions, said Annabelle Ténèze, the director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a satellite in Lens, northern France, of the famed Musée du ...

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

View of the "Louvre Couture" exhibition (dress, arm-armor and helmet by John Galliano for Christian Dior, haute couture collection autumn-winter 2006-2007). NICOLAS BOUSSER/MUSÉE DU LOUVRE ...

In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...

Christian Dior in 1949 designed an evening gown titled “Musee du Louvre” embodying the Louvre’s enduring appeal for fashion designers. It heralds the entrance to the exhibition. Among the ...