The Musée du Louvre expansion will build a new entrance and dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, to be selected in an ...

We take you on a tour of the 10 most significant museums in Europe, highlighting their unique characteristics and a brief ...

The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, and the chief architect of France's historic monuments, François Chatillon, speak ...

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

“Portraiture is quite a big business within the art world, really, even if it is often portrayed as being rather traditional, ...

The Parisian powerhouse opened the competition on June 27 with aims to expand its storied space and ease its visitor congestion through a newly designed entrance and exhibition space for one of its ...

Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new exhibition space for the Mona Lisa.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired the Giambologna sculpture Fata Morgana, a rare marble by the Italian Mannerist ...

From the Van Gogh-inspired Swarovski chair to closures at the Louvre – damage and security staff shortages present a new ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery combine to comprise the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Opened in 1923, the Freer Gallery showcases American paintings from the ...

One laudable shift is the variety of media exhibited—not just sculpture, which was the first so-called primitive art to coax open the doors of Western museums, but jewelry, featherwork, and textiles.

EXCLUSIVE: Motorsports and basketball. Indianapolis has become a mecca for those activities as the home of the Indy 500 and the Pacers (who came up just short of winning the NBA crown this year). In ...