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1 day ago

PODCAST: Fast food slowly kills French restaurants and Petain provokes new rumble in France

Host Ben McPartland is joined by The Local France's Emma Pearson, Genevieve Mansfield and John Lichfield to discuss all the latest news and talking points from France. A few weeks after that 88 million jewel heist, Paris' Louvre museum is back in the news - this time with concerns about 'structural weaknesses'. Plus, is it really true that the museum's computer password was 'louvre'? Find the Talking France podcast on Spotify or Apple, download here or listen on the link below.
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fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
France news

You Will Le Cringe When You Hear the Louvre Video Surveillance System's Actual Password

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
France news

You Will Le Cringe When You Hear the Louvre Video Surveillance System's Actual Password

fromARTnews.com
3 days ago

Louvre Museum Closes Gallery Housing Greek Antiquities as Precautionary Measure

The Louvre 's horrible, no good, very bad autumn continues. On Monday, the museum announced that it was temporarily closing some offices and one public gallery after a recent audit found structural weaknesses in some beams in the building. In a statement, the museum said that a technical report submitted last week found "particular fragility of certain beams holding up the floors" of the second level of the the Louvre's southern Sully wing because of "recent and unforeseen developments." Experts are currently assessing the damage.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

New blow for Louvre as structural problem forces gallery closure

The Louvre closed the Campana Gallery after an audit found structural beam weaknesses, relocating 65 staff and closing the gallery to the public during investigations.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

The Guilty Pleasure of the Heist

Heists captivate because they celebrate cleverness exploiting institutional blind spots, offering an alternative morality that values wits over official competence.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Marlene Dumas becomes first contemporary woman artist to join Louvre's permanent collection

My faces are a mixture of the past and the present. I cannot paint the horrors of the ongoing genocides of our times directly, but their shadows did affect the mood under which these faces were made. Portraiture deals with likeness and the recognition of people known. Faces deal with the nameless. They include those dehumanised, like fugitives, branded as aliens.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Who is fedora man'? Dapper French teenager in viral Louvre heist photo unmasked

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger.
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fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Louvre heist a 'deafening wake-up call' French auditor DW 11/06/2025

Louvre security suffered chronic underinvestment, leaving it vulnerable; an audit condemned inadequate upgrades after a crown jewels theft and demanded urgent governance and security reforms.
#crown-jewels
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

2 suspects arrested, 2 still sought by police after Louvre jewel heist

There's been nonstop news coverage since two men were arrested Saturday night - one, as he tried to board a plane to Algiers, a second in the Paris suburbs. They were tracked down through their own fingerprints and DNA on objects left behind at the scene of the crime - a circular saw, a reflective vest, a motorcycle helmet, a gas canister, a glove and a walkie-talkie. French media say the men were already known to police.
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fromwww.dw.com
4 weeks ago

Louvre Museum reopens in Paris after jewel heist DW 10/22/2025

The Louvre reopened most galleries while the Apollo Gallery stayed closed after thieves stole historically significant jewels estimated at 88 million euros ($102 million).
#art-theft
#mona-lisa
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago
France news

Louvre jewel heist: other daring art thefts from the museum

The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on 23 August 1911, triggering a fruitless investigation and theories of a hoax or a madman.
fromOpen Culture
6 months ago
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The Greatest Art Heist in History: How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre (1911)

Mona Lisa was once easily accessible and susceptible to theft, illustrating how art security has changed over time.
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fromOpen Culture
6 months ago

The Greatest Art Heist in History: How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre (1911)

Mona Lisa was once easily accessible and susceptible to theft, illustrating how art security has changed over time.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 weeks ago

The Louvre reopens 3 days after thieves took off with French crown jewels in daylight heist

Eight pieces of France's Crown Jewels were stolen from the Louvre in a rapid heist that exposed major security failings and prompted national outrage.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Thieves strike Louvre in brazen jewel heist as the world's most visited museum shutters

Thieves used a basket lift to break into the Louvre, stole priceless crown jewels in a seven-minute heist, and escaped on two-wheelers.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Jewelry stolen from Louvre Museum in Paris DW 10/19/2025

A break-in at the Louvre in the French capital Paris on Sunday saw criminals make off with "priceless" jewelry, according to France's culture minister. Rachida Dati said the incident occurred as the museum, one of the world's most famous, opened its doors Sunday morning. "A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum," she wrote on X. The museum confirmed it would be closed for the day "for exceptional reasons."
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 months ago

explore the silent and opulent galleries of the louvre through franck bohbot's lens

Bohbot's photographs transform the Louvre into a 'living architectural organism,' emphasizing calm spatial encounters through the use of natural light and architectural details.
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fromOpen Culture
4 months ago

A Rabbit Rides a Chariot Pulled by Geese in an Ancient Roman Mosaic (2nd century AD)

The Roman mosaic at the Louvre features a rabbit in a chariot pulled by geese, showcasing humor and decorative exuberance in ancient art.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
5 months ago

The world's most-visited museum shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

The Louvre's staff strike highlights the pressures of mass tourism and poor working conditions affecting iconic attractions.
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fromFast Company
5 months ago

Louvre museum shuts down due to staff strike over mass tourism

The Louvre museum's operations were paralyzed due to staff protests over overcrowding and working conditions, highlighting the impact of mass tourism.
#art
fromTheartnewspaper
5 months ago
Paris food

Louvre to return 250 works from Rothschild bequest

The Louvre will return 258 improperly held objects from Adèle de Rothschild's bequest to the Fondation des Artistes.
fromTheartnewspaper
5 months ago
Arts

Copy that: in a new exhibition, one hundred artists reinterpret Louvre masterpieces

The Copyists exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz invites artists to reinterpret classic works from the Louvre, challenging traditional notions of copying.
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fromTheartnewspaper
5 months ago

Copy that: in a new exhibition, one hundred artists reinterpret Louvre masterpieces

The Copyists exhibition at Centre Pompidou-Metz invites artists to reinterpret classic works from the Louvre, challenging traditional notions of copying.
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fromTheartnewspaper
6 months ago

Water leaks into the Louvre's Cimabue exhibition, landing close to the master's greatest early painting

The Louvre experienced water infiltration during a hailstorm, nearly impacting Cimabue's Maestà, but no artworks were damaged.
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