Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—to its own subterranean room. Now, that idea is becoming ...

Don't let that smile fool you — the Mona Lisa has seen some things. After a visitor attempted to smash its protective glass last week, the painting and its wild history of attempted vandalism ...

Worse yet, projections suggest it could climb to 119 percent by 2029, forcing some painful budget cuts and making grand-scale cultural ... stand in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in 2023.