Is the Louvre Selling Out? 
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast
To fill its spectacular new museum in Abu Dhabi, France’s grandest art institution is loaning hundreds of national treasures for sky-high fees. Eric Pape on the price of artistic treason....
VOX POPULI: Mysterious forger behind an expensive smile
Asahi News
Asahi News
About 30 years ago, an uncelebrated painter gained some notoriety by sneaking one of his own works into an annex of the Louvre in Paris. It was on show for two days before the hoax was discovered. Back then, the...
Fake da Vinci portrait fetches $1.5m at auction
China Daily
China Daily
Original painting by Leonardo called 'La Belle Ferronniere' housed in Louvre NEW YORK: A portrait once believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci sold for more than $1.5 million in New York on Thursday, around...
Honey-marooned
Mumbai Mirror
Mumbai Mirror
Ideally, a description of your honeymoon trip shouldn't mention 'Murphy's Law', right? I had no such luck. Ayesha, my then newly wedded significant other seemed ecstatic at the prospect of visiting the Louvre museum in...
Is Da Vinci's Mona Lisa a Self-Portrait?
ABC News
ABC News
By NICK WATT and AMMU KANNAMPILLY LONDON, Jan. 26, 2010 is arguably the most famous portrait in the world, but now some are speculating that the woman with the inscrutable smile may not be a woman after all. They are...
Disputed Da Vinci portrait sells for $1.5 mn
IBN Live
IBN Live
New York: A portrait once believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci sold for more than $1.5 million in New York on Thursday, around treble the top price estimated ahead of the auction. Auction house Sotheby's...
Disputed Da Vinci portrait sells for $1.5 million
China Daily
China Daily
NEW YORK - A portrait once believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci sold for more than $1.5 million in New York on Thursday, around treble the top price estimated ahead of the auction. Auction house Sotheby's...
Report cites flaw in Univ. of New Mexico facility
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
DALLAS - A second university has learned that its indoor practice facility for football is vulnerable to the same type of winds that toppled the Dallas Cowboys' practice building last year, according to a report obtained...
The 10 best museum websites
The Times
The Times
Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum...
