The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

Architect I.M. Pei (1917–2019) believed that “success is a collection of problems solved,” and designing the Louvre’s now-iconic glass pyramid entrance put that philosophy to the ultimate ...

The Louvre Pyramid will continue to be a visitor access ... would not have to foot the bill - although government funds will cover the $10 million cost of the initial surveys and plans.

[Photo: Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images] The Louvre currently has only one entrance—the iconic glass pyramid by architect I.M. Pei, opened in 1989. Overcrowding of the throughway in ...

The Louvre museum would also have a "new grand entrance" to help ease congestion at its glass-and-metal pyramid entry point ... starting next year would help cover the costs.

Already, the museum has capped daily attendance at 30,000 people, who mostly enter via the Louvre Pyramid, a glass-and-steel structure designed by the architect I.M. Pei in the 1980s, during the ...

The entrance to the building—I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid—was designed to accommodate just half of the visitors it currently does. To alleviate that issue, a new entrance will be created at ...

PARIS - The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has requested urgent help from the French government to restore and renovate its ageing exhibition ...

He's been on stages in these trances, each one a dot on a nautical chart, workaday union arenas in Midwestern industrial centers, big Gothic college gymnasiums, the foot of the Great Pyramids and ...

From his striking addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (1978) to his serene Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (2008), not to mention the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre ...

We had filmed part of our film inside the Louvre with Agnes. Going back there and carrying this torch, taking it from the pyramid to the inside, was a very special memory for me, with a lot of ...

Bust of Djedefre, in the Louvre ... similar to the pyramid of Khafre. The burial chamber / photo Jon Bodsworth on Wikimedia Commons Inscriptions found in the pit bore the name of the pyramid, ...