PARIS: The world’s most famous painting, the “Mona Lisa,” is to be moved so her room in the Louvre can be spruced up, the Paris museum said Friday. Leonardo...
PARIS: She was one of the great beauties of antiquity, and soon we are going to find out what the “Venus de Milo” smells like. The Louvre in Paris has asked...
PARIS: A newly discovered version of Eugene Delacroix’s Orientalist masterpiece, “Women of Algiers” went on show for the first time in Paris Thursday. The...
FONTAINEBLEAU, France: An exquisite 19th-century French theater outside Paris that fell into disuse for 1 1/2 centuries has been restored with the help of a...
PARIS: Art expert Eric Turquin is not only convinced that a canvas found in the attic of an old house in southwest France is a Caravaggio - he actually...
PARIS: It was once decried as an architectural “obscenity,” but as the Louvre’s glass pyramid turns 30 Friday, it has become a cherished icon of the French...
PARIS: A startling exhibition in the French capital, drawn from the Arab world’s biggest private art collection, shows the dizzying mix of cultures in the...
PARIS: The head of France’s greatest collection of African art has hit back at a report urging the return of thousands of artworks to the countries from which...
PARIS: When street artist Banksy destroyed one of his works of art last week seconds after it was sold at an auction, he probably added to its value, with...
PARIS: Two new major exhibitions in the French capital counterpoint the work of a pair of art world rebels Jean-Michel Basquiat and Egon Schiele. Although the...
PARIS: The contemporary art market is booming with Chinese artists helping to push prices up by nearly a fifth in the past year, the world’s biggest art index...
ROME: They left war-ravaged Syria, family and friends behind them. France was where they were aiming for. A Greek island was where they ended up. Now, five...
Ecatepec, Mexico: Pope Francis celebrated an open-air mass with 300,000 Catholic faithful in a crime-plagued Mexican city on Sunday, urging them to create a...
Vatican City: Pope Francis heads to Africa for the first time on Wednesday on a trip aimed at pushing the key themes of his papacy but also fraught with...
HAVANA: Pope Francis delivered mass Sunday before hundreds of thousands of fans and faithful on Havana's iconic Revolution Square, calling Cubans to serve the...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis Tuesday called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year -...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is to warn that global warming threatens the planet and declare a moral imperative to reduce fossil fuel consumption, Vatican...
COLOMBO: Pope Francis urged respect for human rights in Sri Lanka as he began a two-nation Asia tour on the island Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and...
TIRANA: Pope Francis warned during a visit to Albania on Sunday that religion can never be used to justify violence, making apparent reference to the...
VATICAN CITY: Warnings that ISIS may be plotting to attack Pope Francis during his visit to mostly Muslim Albania Sunday have been shrugged off by the...
VATICAN CITY: Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq – a rare exception to its policy of...
VATICAN CITY: Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to U.S. airstrikes in Iraq - a rare exception to its policy of peaceful...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis appointed his first batch of cardinals on Saturday, as his predecessor Benedict made a surprise rare appearance at the ceremony...
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican began a new chapter on Tuesday with scandal-hit cardinal Tarcisio Bertone stepping down as right-hand man to Pope Francis and...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Legions of pilgrims welcomed Pope Francis to Rio de Janeiro on Monday, lining the streets of the tropical city to greet Latin America's first...