The Latest Breaking News from Louvre

In this edition of arts24, we hear from British pop star Dua Lipa on her much-anticipated new record "Radical Optimism", we remember rock star writer Paul Auster and we visit the Paris Louvre as one of its most famous works returns after a six-month facelift.

Eight layers of varnish had drowned iconic painting’s colours over time, as coating became yellow with oxidation

Three months before the start of the Paris Olympics, the Louvre will add its cultural heft to the prelude with the launch on Wednesday of an exhibition glorifying the museum's role in the birth of the modern Games. It features the academics, artists and politicians whose dynamism defined the Olympics…

She has featured in Beyoncé's music videos, choreographed a sell-out stage musical and brought underground nightclub moves to the stage of the Opéra de Paris. Now Josepha Madoki is hosting a weekend of waacking in the Musée d'Orsay’s imposing entrance hall; she tells us more about this 1970s queer subculture…

The Olympic flame is set to burn in the Tuileries Garden in front of the Louvre museum for the duration of the Paris Games in July and August, according to reports from French news agency AFP.

The decision to place the Olympic cauldron in the tourist hotspot in the center of the city was taken "several weeks ago", the source said on condition of anonymity.

After campaigners target the Mona Lisa, we look back at artworks that have been defaced.

Wearing T-shirts that read "food counterattack," two women wreaked havoc at the Louvre in Paris

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Travis Kelce said he wanted to get a painting made of Jason Kelce's viral screaming moment, and an artist went viral on TikTok for doing just that.

Visiting the Louvre will soon cost more than ever, as the world's biggest museum seeks to cover rising costs without lifting caps on crowds.