The Latest Breaking News from Louvre

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 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

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

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.

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.

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

French abstract painter who expressed a fascination with black in works popular with collectors and public alike

Authorities in New York announced Wednesday the return of 16 antiquities to Egypt, including five works that were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a probe into international art trafficking. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the 16 works were worth more than $16 million.

The stolen masterpieces have never turned up—and nobody’s really looking for them

The United Arab Emirates, home to the only foreign branch of the Louvre, has vowed to ensure a thorough investigation into the trafficking of artefacts linked to its parent museum in Paris.

A man, who's since been arrested, created an elaborate disguise in order to get close enough to the masterpiece