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News Articles: Louvre

From left: Rep. Adelita Grijalva, Jack Schlossberg, "Fedora Man."

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Unlike the government, the quiz never stopped. Can you ace this week's test?

This week's quiz is mercifully light on politics, unless you count President James Garfield, a Kennedy family member and a new House rep … OK, so it's not light on politics. But there are geese?

November 14, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, right, walks past as police officers block an entrance to the Louvre after thieves carried out a daylight raid on French crown jewels, in Paris, Oct. 19, 2025.

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  • World

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

November 09, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
From left: A Jack Skellington fan, a statue, Jacob Elordi.

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  • National

What has 11 questions and makes you feel smart? Our news quiz!

From monsters to politics and (maybe) everything in between, it's the weekly news quiz.

October 31, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
In The Mastermind, Josh O'Connor plays an unemployed cabinet maker who devises a plot to rob a local museum.

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  • Movie Reviews

Still thinking about the Louvre? 'The Mastermind' is about a museum heist gone awry

An unemployed cabinet maker robs the local art museum — then finds himself plunged into a world of cops and gangsters and life on the run. The Mastermind is a sad movie that gets stronger as it goes.

October 28, 2025
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  • John Powers
This photo provided Thursday Oct. 23, 2025 by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewels stolen in the Louvre museum on Sunday Oct.19, 2025 in Paris.

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  • Europe

Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris

The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday that a number of suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris last weekend.

October 26, 2025
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
Members of the Paris Holmes Society (Cercle Holmesien de Paris), Laurence Deloision, dressed like Arsène Lupin (left), and Thierry Gilibert, dressed like Sherlock Holmes, on Saturday stage the theft by the facade and the window where thieves entered the Louvre last Sunday.

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  • Europe

First, came the Louvre heist. Then came the memes

From brands and influencers to a viral "Inspector Clouseau," the world's most glamorous theft is also quickly becoming one of the year's most profitable memes.

October 26, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
From left: Misty Copeland, Malala Yousafzai, mystery axolotl.

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  • National

No historic museums were harmed in the making of this quiz. Can you score 11?

From brazen jewel heists to internet meltdowns, this week brought travesties galore.

October 24, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
A forensics officer examines the cut window and balcony of a gallery at the Louvre Museum which was the scene of a robbery on October 19 in Paris.

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  • Arts & Life

A few things to consider before committing a museum heist

Art heists may sound glamorous, but stealing priceless cultural artifacts doesn't always pay off like you'd expect. We talked with a veteran art thief, a lawyer, and an expert on heist economics.

October 23, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
<em>Daily Scene in the Louvre</em>, a 1911 cartoon by Samuel Ehrhart, shows patrons blatantly stealing works from the museum after an inventory at the time found that over 300 canvases were missing.

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  • History

This isn't the Louvre's first high-profile heist. Here's a history of earlier thefts

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

October 20, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
A basket lift used by thieves is seen at the Louvre Museum on Sunday in Paris.

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  • Europe

Masked thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from the Louvre Museum

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called the heist "a major, highly organized operation" that lasted just seven minutes. Authorities were still drawing up the value of the stolen items.

October 19, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
Louvre visitors in front of <em>The Wedding Feast at Cana</em> by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa.

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  • Fine Art

Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

January 29, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the <em>Mona Lisa</em> by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris on Tuesday.

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  • World

The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

January 28, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Nick Spicer
Visitors observe the painting the <em>Mona Lisa</em> by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci on display in a gallery at Louvre on May 19, 2021 in Paris, France.

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  • Fine Art

The Louvre Museum looks to rehouse the 'Mona Lisa' in its own room — underground

Louvre Director Laurence des Cars said her institution is looking at upgrading both the visitor experience surrounding the iconic painting as well as the museum overall.

April 28, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
The Mona Lisa last year in Paris.

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  • Strange News

A man in a wig was detained after throwing a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa

A man who was apparently disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair was detained after throwing a piece of cake at the Mona Lisa.

May 30, 2022
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  • Rina Torchinsky
The Apollon Gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on Jan. 14, 2020.

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  • Fine Art

Not Heading To Paris This Summer? The Louvre Has Digitized 482,000 Artworks

One of the world's mightiest museums has made much of its vast collection available online. The Louvre steers digital visitors well beyond marquee works like the Mona Lisa to reveal hidden treasures.

March 31, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
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