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Louvre

A girl stands next to the ''Sphere de Journaux'' (the Newspapers Sphere), a giant ball made of newspapers by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, in front of the Institut de France, as people rolled the creation from the Louvre Museum to the Monnaie de Paris, on May 18, 2013 in Paris, during the 2013 European Night of the Museums. The event was launched in 1999 in France and other European countries have joined in since 2005.

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  • Artist decorates the Louvre's iconic pyramid

    -- An Italian artist has decorated the Louvre museum's iconic glass pyramid for the first time with a message about capitalism.Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world's leading conceptual artists, covered one panel of the pyramid with a huge three-looped   Read more »

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi gives peek at collection

    -- The curator of the Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre says no artistic subjects are off limits as the museum builds its collection for the planned 2015 opening.Laurence Des Cars sought to challenge concerns that the United Arab Emirates would resist works with   Read more »

  • Louvre gets new leader, a Greek antiquities expert

    -- France's Louvre museum is getting a new director -- the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some of the institutions latest efforts to expand its reach.Jean-Luc Martinez, a French specialist in Greek,   Read more »

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