In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

As with all famous art heists ... author of Stealing the Mona Lisa: What art stops us from seeing. There it would remain hidden for two years, as a police search stretched far and wide for ...

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Retired New York Times Paris Bureau Chief Elaine Sciolino returns to Buffalo, where she was raised, to talk about her book ...

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A museum is hoping that an unofficial exhibition dedicated to the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who will encourage more ...

The artwork was Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. With the portrait hidden under his white smock, the thief then walked out of the building, escaping into the crowd at the Rue de Rivoli. As with all ...

For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France’s other national museums—but its transformation ...