Pégard, a former advisor to the French president Emmanuel Macron, enters a ministry struggling with budgetary cuts and badly shaken by the stunning Louvre heist

Christophe Léribault will replace Laurence des Cars following her resignation and Annick Lemoine will take up the vacant position after the sudden death of Sylvain Amic

Des Cars had pursued a costly renovation and expansion plan even as staff went on strike to advocate for tackling more urgent issues

Anti-billionaire campaign group Everyone Hates Elon put the photograph up and called for "justice for all Epstein survivors"

The alleged scheme was revealed by Paris prosecutors on the same day as reports emerged of a leak damaging a work in the museum’s Italian paintings gallery

The latest action piles more pressure the museum’s director, Laurence des Cars

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism

Staff at the Paris museum yesterday staged another walk out, citing concerns around working conditions and infrastructure

Three major pieces, stolen in the October robbery, are absent from the otherwise glittering presentation

It was yesterday revealed that that a water leak in the museum's Egyptian antiquities department had damaged hundreds of books

The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Americas and art market editor discuss the top sales and the wider mood in Miami, Ben Luke gets the latest on the ground in Paris and hears from curator Dita Amory on Scherfbeck’s ‘The Tapestry’

The Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord have also announced new pricing structures

French media report arrest of man in small town in the West of they country, said to have links with those apprehended in October

This latest blow for the Paris museum follows a report on its buildings which highlighted “particular fragility” in its Campana Gallery

The Parisian museum has recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons—so now is a good time to remember its greatness

Nine new works by the South African-born artist were unveiled at the Paris museum last Thursday

Due to the world-wide publicity of the brazen theft at the Musée du Louvre last month, the stolen jewellery may be impossible to shift

The much-anticipated report from the Cour des comptes points to issues with the management of the Paris museum and calls for a rethink of priorities

A growing emphasis on visitor experience at museums across the world is putting objects at risk, argues a leading security expert

The suspects charged so far do not appear to be linked to any high-level crime networks, according to Laure Beccuau

The arrests come as two men are charged for gang theft and criminal association

Lanvin’s artistic director Peter Copping and the Louvre’s Olivier Gabet share their deep admiration for the fashion legend

The delays to updating the museum’s apparently lacklustre surveillance infrastructure, meanwhile, have been blamed on its ambitious renovation plans

Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach

The museum has reopened today following the heist, although the gallery which housed the objects remains closed

Politicians and unions have criticised the government after the world’s most visited museum was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday

The work, ‘Les 4 temps’, by the Algeria-born artist Mohamed Bourouissa, will go on display later this month

Cultural sites including the Musée Picasso and the Château de Versailles were closed Thursday 18 September due to an action against budget austerity

The Louvre and the National in Edinburgh loaned works by the 18th-century artist

Workers at the world's most popular museum launched a strike over “worsening visiting conditions”