The director of the Louvre, Laurence Des Cars, announced the introduction of additional fees for viewing the Mona Lisa. These ...

The somewhat un-PC compliment that keeps coming out of my mouth when I tell friends about Mischa Berlinski’s third novel, “Mona Acts Out,” is that I can’t believe it was ...

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...

A federal judge in the District of Columbia temporarily blocked President Trump’s order to freeze as much as $3 trillion in ...

The renovation announcement comes after concerns over water leaks and other damages were expressed by the museum’s director ...

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic ...

The whole time, Mona will be accompanied by her winsome beagle, Barney, one of the best dogs in recent American fiction.

That her name is Mona Lisa made netizens, mostly men, more curious about her. However, her newfound spotlight has divided public opinion. While some celebrated her “natural beauty,” many criticised ...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said his Cabinet will not meet to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal until Hamas backs down from what it called a “last-minute crisis”.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a lot of options for her next act — including possible runs for governor of California in 2026 and president in 2028 — but writing a book may be ...