This Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule ended, an altogether different show took place at the Louvre. Jordan Roth presented Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, ...

On Tuesday the Louvre is closed. A museum in limbo The Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors last year — more than double what its infrastructure was designed to accommodate.

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff ...

Last month, workers at the Louvre in Paris went on strike. Bemoaning overcrowding and inadequate staffing, they refused to open the museum’s doors, leaving massive lines of tourists waiting outside.

The Louvre Museum in Paris, home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and other priceless works of art, was forced to open later than expected because of a labor strike on Monday, June 16. Thousands ...

A view of the Louvre Pyramid, and the southern wing of the Louvre building in Paris, April 4, 2006. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file) ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

The results range from faithful reproductions to complete reinventions of renowned works by artists such as Delacroix, Goya and Vermeer ...

But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France’s great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis I, who on Aug. 2, 1546 gave the royal command to begin a palace and pride of kings.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark ...