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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 »
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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 »
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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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One Ungrateful Annoying Bitch in Paris
de Triomphe. Speaking about museums – we went on with full force and try to hop to as many as museums & cathedrals as we can. Louvre, Cluny, d’Orsay, Pompidou, Versailles, St Chapelle, Notre Dame Tower – you name it. What caught my eyes? In Louvre what caught 4:55 AM from Travel Blog Read more »
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Day Three Le Louvre L'Orangerie Arc de Triomphe Notre Dame Ste Chappelle and New Years Eve Big Day
wandering around the building and also had a good look at Napolean’s Apartments. Would have liked to see the Medieval Louvre, but time was running short, so had to leave that for next time. We worked out that by this point we had got all our money back on from Travel Blog Read more »
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Musician turned jewellery designer Anna Hu creates pitch-perfect pieces
Hu made history last year when she became the first Asian jeweller to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. Yet the 36-year-old has set her sights on even more ambitious goals. "I feel I did pretty good for the from SCMP Read more »
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First Israeli exhibition displayed at Louvre
have attended the exhibitions in America. Until today, only a number of private Israeli artists have been exhibited in the Louvre, and now, for the very first time, an official Israeli exhibition will be displayed in the French museum. According to the director from Ynetnews Read more »
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Discover a different France
PORT: Honfleur has strong claims to be regarded as the most picturesque town in France You've shopped in Paris, visited the Louvre and walked the bridges of the Seine. You've partied with the chic set on the Cote d'Azur, done the obligatory tour of Provencal from Stuff.co.nz Read more »
