Thieves strike Louvre in daring jewel heist as the world’s most visited museum shutsParis's iconic Louvre Museum experienced a daring break-in this morning. Thieves reportedly used a goods lift to access a targeted room. Th...
19 Oct, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
Mona Lisa will smile from a gallery of her own, but seeing her will cost extraThe Louvre is set to renovate with a new gallery for the Mona Lisa. Visitors will need to pay an extra fee to view the painting. The renova...
19 Jun, 2025, 04.09 PM IST
The world’s most famous museum, home to the Mona Lisa, is now shut. Take a look at its iconic masterpiecesLouvre Museum in Paris closed unexpectedly because of a staff strike. Thousands of tourists were left outside. Workers protested overwhelmi...
17 Jun, 2025, 11.42 AM IST
World’s most visited museum shuts down as staff strike protests on mass tourismThe Louvre Museum, grappling with overcrowding and staff concerns over working conditions, abruptly closed due to an emergency strike. Empl...
17 Jun, 2025, 09.42 AM IST
World’s most famous museum closes as over tourism overwhelms staff — Louvre shutdown sparks global alarmLouvre Museum in Paris unexpectedly shut down due to a staff strike, leaving tourists stranded. Workers cite unbearable conditions from ove...
16 Jun, 2025, 10.35 PM IST
World's most visited museum shuts down, sounding the alarm on overtourismThe Louvre Museum, a major cultural landmark, faced an unexpected closure due to a staff strike protesting unbearable working conditions ca...
16 Jun, 2025, 08.13 PM IST
Paris climate activists hurl soup at "Mona Lisa" in protest for sustainable foodClimate activists from Riposte Alimentaire targeted the "Mona Lisa" in Paris, throwing soup to highlight the need for sustainable food. The...
29 Jan, 2024, 12.23 PM IST
Mona Lisa was stolen! Who carried out 'art heist of century' and how?Mona Lisa was stolen on this day in 1911. The plot, conspiracy, and the mastermind made it look like a perfect crime.
21 Aug, 2023, 09.58 PM IST
Tracing the man who stole the Mona Lisa and took it to ItalyThe day of the theft, Aug. 21, 1911, was a Monday and The Louvre was closed for maintenance.
13 Nov, 2022, 09.42 AM IST
Environmentalists continue to vandalise priceless paintings by throwing food. Find out whyEnvironmentalists have long targeted numerous paintings. A few climate activists vandalised Sandro Botticelli's Primavera in July at Floren...
28 Oct, 2022, 08.39 PM IST
View: The art mart can make a chimp a champArtistic licence can go bananas, literally, as it did in a 2019 Miami show where an exhibit titled, 'Comedian,' consisting of a ripe kela s...
05 Mar, 2022, 11.00 PM IST
Time to remove cultural distancingIn 2020, Louvre visitors were down to, er, 2.7 million. Our museums can take a hint.
13 Jan, 2021, 08.26 AM IST
Back to grindstone as Louvre prepares to open, visitors get to spend only 54 seconds with 'Mona Lisa'Museum-goers will need to reserve a time slot for their visit online.
25 Jun, 2020, 08.27 AM IST
The secret life of 'Mona Lisa': Thyroid issues, tricky smirk & alien presenceAutor Dan Brown wasn’t the only one looking for hidden ‘codes’ in Da Vinci’s works.
01 Aug, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Where Nawaz Modi Singhania stops for art across the globeWhen it comes to celebrated works, artist Nawaz Modi Singhania likes to soak in everything she surveys, but prefers to maintain her identit...
04 Apr, 2014, 03.38 PM IST
- Sotheby's Paris to auction collection of Comtesse Viviane de Witt
Sotheby's Paris is coming up a sale of a selection of works from the Collection of Comtesse Viviane de Witt.
08 May, 2013, 10.50 PM IST
- Cecilia Gallerani's portrait to appear in Leonardo's exhibition in London
500 years after the Duke of Milan's mistress was immortalised by Leonardo da Vinci as the Lady with Ermine, she is causing major embarrassm...
25 Jul, 2011, 04.29 AM IST