Collection of the lawyer and collector Armand Isaac Dorville was sold after his death in an estate sale that the state argues was not forced

A seasoned director with an emphasis on the social role of museums, she replaces Jean-Luc Martinez as the Louvre's president-director on 1 September

Health passes to certify visitors are Covid-free will be mandatory at cultural venues

Museum chief is named "interim" director while President Macron decides if he should continue as head of the Paris institution

A secret booklet appears to contradict claims made in a new documentary about the painting's attribution to Leonardo

A feature-length film, screening next week in France, sheds new light on the political machinations surrounding the world's most controversial painting

The woven hanging bears a slogan from Hitler's Mein Kampf

The Art Newspaper's annual survey shows how the pandemic had a devastating impact on museums around the world—but there were some silver linings

French president Emmanuel Macron will decide whether to renew or replace the museum's director in the coming weeks

Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies

Deprived of visitors, the world’s most popular museum is striking deals with brands such as Uniqlo to reach international audiences online

The US artist's foundation says that it was not consulted over the French museum's changes to the Salle des Bronzes—the Louvre argues it does not have to

The Louvre’s examination of the picture and independent analysis suggest blessing hand and arm were not part of the artist’s original concept

Despite kicking off 2020 with a record-breaking Leonardo exhibition, like many museums around the world, the Parisian institution was adversely affected by coronavirus lockdowns

Organisations and museums offer plenty of online art projects for parents

Mwazulu Diyabanza says that “museums do not deserve respect” as restitution debate intensifies

Online sale seeks to support a new space for art education and outreach that will open in the autumn of 2021

Closing German museums would be “a hard blow for the institutions and society,” the country's museums association says

Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today

Jean-Luc Martinez believes that capitalising on the museum's permanent collection will be key to recovery

Louvre is "is working towards a planned reopening on 6 July" with strict rules for social distancing and 70% of the museum open to the public

We caught up with the Paris institution's head of digital communications, Niko Melissano, to get his advice on creating a mega-museum Instagram presence

Publication with new scientific analysis of the picture was withdrawn after the Saudi authorities refused to loan Leonardo’s $450m painting to Paris

Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?

Here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art

The Paris museum held talks with union officials yesterday

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

Previous highest figure was 540,000 people for the Eugène Delacroix show in 2018

Free entry—plus coffee and madeleines—promised for nocturnal visitors in a move that will allow an extra 30,000 people to see the exhibition