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Louvre: Director Sounds the Alarm: “The Museum Is on the Brink; Urgent Investment Is Needed”

Less than four months after taking the helm at the Louvre, the new president and director of the French museum, Christophe Leribault, paints an extremely troubling picture of the state of the world’s largest museum institution. Appearing before...
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Fujiko Nakaya transforms Paris' Bourse de Commerce Rotunda with one of her mist sculptures

Fog invades the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris: it is the work of Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (Sapporo, 1933), within which visitors are invited to immerse themselves to appear and disappear in the thick white fog of water vapor. Until...
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Louvre announces major Francisco de Zurbarán retrospective for this fall

From Oct. 7, 2026 to Jan. 25, 2027, the Louvre Museum will pay tribute to one of the greatest protagonists of seventeenth-century Spanish painting with the exhibition Zurbarán 1598-1664, staged in the Hall Napoléon. The exhibition proje...
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Paris, young Perugino's Madonna and Child restored

One of the earliest testimonies to the art of Perugino (Pietro Vannucci; Città della Pieve, 1446 - Fontignano, 1523), returns to show itself in a renewed guise thanks to a conservation intervention that has restored legibility and luminosity t...
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Louvre, Delacroix regains his colors: restored masterpiece on Crusaders in Constantinople

In Paris, one of the absolute masterpieces of Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863) is back in its original guise. After painstaking conservation work lasting nearly a year, The Crusaders' Entry into Constantinople (April 12, 12...
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Louvre, two architectural firms chosen to design museum renovation

In Paris, the Louvre Museum begins a new phase in its architectural and urban history with the selection of the project signed by Studios Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects for the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance transformation plan. The announce...
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At the Louvre, an exhibition leads to the discovery of ancient Mesopotamia through the theme of water

From May 20, 2026, to March 15, 2027, the Louvre in Paris will host the exhibition Primordial Water: Lessons from Mesopotamia, curated by Ariane Thomas, director of the Department of Oriental Antiquities and head of the collections of Recent Mesopota...
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At the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the first major retrospective in France dedicated to Giovanni Segantini

From April 29 to August 16, 2026, the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris welcomes the exhibition Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899). I Want to See My Mountains, the first major retrospective in France dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, one of the most r...
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