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Activist Arrested For Attacking Monet Painting In Paris

French police on Saturday arrested a climate activist who staged a protest attack on a priceless Claude Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, prosecutors said.

International Business Times

Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s blazing blooms

The Guardian - UK

The Louvre Museum looks to rehouse the 'Mona Lisa' in its own room — underground

Louvre Director Laurence des Cars said her institution is looking at upgrading both the visitor experience surrounding the iconic painting as well as the museum overall.

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Could Mona Lisa move into a private suite at Le Louvre?

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum's president said on Saturday.

Radio France Internationale

Louvre museum says Mona Lisa could get a room of her own

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum's president said on Saturday.

France 24

Still lives and more dynamic, moving forms at the Louvre

Paris's landmark museum is gearing up for the Olympics, with a special exhibition that takes visitors through the history of the Games. We hear more about a project for those who want to combine exercise and culture, as the Louvre launches a fitness circuit that puts participants among the artwork.…

France 24

The world’s most disappointing masterpiece: why does the Mona Lisa leave so many people underwhelmed?

Online, Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting is the subject of thousands of negative reviews – on display at the Louvre, it is deluged with visitors. Is the problem the artwork or the stressful experience of seeing it?

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Mona Lisa should be moved to an 'underground chamber', Louvre says

Gallery hopes proposed move would make world-famous painting easier to see

Evening Standard

Renowned Jeweler Cindy Chao Inspires Students With Innovative Wax Technique

Renowned jewelry artist Cindy Chao conducts a workshop at HEJ Paris, inspiring students with her unique Cire Perdue technique and culminating in a stunning...

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Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa in Paris

Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system.

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The Independent UK

True Detective season 4 review: Jodie Foster is perfectly cast in this frosty, Alaska-set mystery

As bodies turn up in the permafrost, ‘Night Country’ indulges in the sort of body horror tableaus you could hang in the Louvre

Salon

Louvre evacuated; Paris on edge

After a teacher is murdered by a suspected extremist, French landmarks face alleged threats

The Independent UK

The Louvre Museum in Paris is being evacuated after a threat while France is under high alert

The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after it received a written threat

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Louvre and Versailles evacuated amid maximum security alert in France

The Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff on Saturday after receiving bomb threats. France has declared a top-level security alert nationwide following the murder of a teacher at a high school in a suspected terrorist attack.

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Vacheron Constantin invites you to commission a watch inspired by a Louvre masterpiece

Vacheron Constantin and the Louvre continue their partnership, with the chance to commission ‘A Masterpiece on Your Wrist’

Evening Standard

Britons travelling to France warned amid fears of violence at protests

Britons travelling to France have been warned to “avoid demonstrations wherever possible” as hundreds of thousands of workers were set to go out on a national strike on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest

The Louvre Museum in Paris has been closed to the public because its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans

The Guardian - UK

‘Chance of a lifetime’ Vermeer exhibition to open in Amsterdam

Rare exhibition assembles 28 paintings by enigmatic Dutch master in one place

Radio France Internationale

French city asks Madonna for loan of painting lost during WWI

The mayor of Amiens in northern France has released a video requesting that American pop singer Madonna "loan" the city a painting from her personal collection, which resembles one lost there during World War I.

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Eco-activists underestimate damage protests do to artworks, museums warn

Nearly 100 of the world's most famous museums issued a joint declaration on Thursday saying environmental activists who attack paintings to draw attention to climate change "severely underestimate" the damage that could be caused.

Bangkok Post

Art world appalled by attacks on paintings

PARIS: Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.

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