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• Louvre goes visual with Nintendo 3Ds guide

  (AP) -- For the Louvre, the existing audio guide is so 20th century.So the famed Paris museum is going 3D visual with its electronic guides in a deal with Japan's Nintendo to provide game consoles to help visitors who navigate its labyrinthine halls by t   Read more »

• The real da Vinci code: Louvre unlocks last work

  (AP) -- An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work by Leonardo da Vinci goes before the public Thursday at the Louvre Museum, revealing "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" in the full panoply of hues and detail painted by the Rena   Read more »

• Abu Dhabi seeks bidders for Louvre branch

  (AP) -- The developer of a branch of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi has launched its search for a contractor to build the museum following a series of delays.The state-owned Tourism Development and Investment Company placed an ad in local newspapers Sunday seek   Read more »

• Big-budget 'au revoir' ends Paris fashion week

  (AP) -- Louis Vuitton capped a Paris fashion week dripping with jewels, sequins and glamorous jet-setters by going back in time to one of the most fashionable ages of travel: The era of the Orient Express.In a big-budget production, the house that made i   Read more »

• Copy of 'Mona Lisa' draws crowds

  Crowds gathered at Madrid's Prado Museum this week to view a copy of the "Mona Lisa" for the first time since restoration revealed it was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci 's apprentices as he worked on the original.The painting is on   Read more »

Around the web

• Feeding pigeons at the Louvre

  Louvre and....drum roll please....the Eiffel tower! To get mushy and cheesy for just a moment, when I hopped off the bus at the louvre (side note, that pyramid in front of it does look stupid, and yet, it's intriguing at the same time, I'm undecided I should 5/30/12 from Travel Blog Read more »

• Five reflections on Zelda from the world of ancient art.

  summer in Paris, I spent a lot of free time in the old master painting wings at the Louvre, but eventually grew tired of the throngs of tourists. I relocated to the empty rooms of ancient Greek relics, where I discovered a small terra cotta statue of a Greek 5/30/12 from Kill Screen  Read more »

• El autor de "Cloaca", Wim Delvoye, toma el Louvre y las salas imperiales

  sobre la escultura del siglo XIX. La idea de invitarle a ocupar esos apartamentos imperiales, que el visitante medio del Louvre suele pasar por alto, fue del presidente de la institución, Henri Loyrette. "Yo no tengo la capacidad para elegir y hacer un recorrido.   from Fox News Latino Read more »

• Peter Paul Rubens and 17th-century Book Arts

  in Seventeenth-Century News (Spring-Summer, 2012). The Ringling's permanent collection includes five Rubens canvases (the Louvre, two). The show presents selections from Ringling's Rubens collection and many fine prints of the master's work (engravings, woodcuts)   from The Fine Books Blog Read more »

• A show fit for the Louvre

  ago when I asked about her own hopes and dreams. "I want to make pop music that's considered fine art. I think I can do it. I always tell people my show is a show fit for the Louvre." Judging from that performance, I would say that's true. CHRISTOPHER TOH   from Today Online Read more »