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

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How to Fall in Love with the Louvre.

Later in the year, he will be invited to the Louvre-Lens in northern France and ... from the history of his family's native region, the French West Indies: the slave trade, plantations and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few months into Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency, Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi pitched his Bedouin-style ...

On March 20, Napoleon reached the Tuileries Palace in Paris—on the site of the Louvre today ... having beheaded King Charles I 140 years before the French guillotined Louis XVI, but they ...

"Our credo was a place for all people – for the poor and rich, the young and old." Culture Shifters ... the private apartment of the Elysée Palace, the French presidents' official residence.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Peintures Done near the end of the artist's life, Four Seasons in One Head, c. 1590, may be a poignant rumination on old age. Private collection ...