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...show together in a world-class place.” The Paris show, called Drawing Now: Salon de Dessin Contemporain, is at the Carrousel du Louvre, located in the Louvre Palace next to the great museum and features dozens of shops in an elegant and airy setting. McLean...
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...acquisitions,” Dominique De Font-Reaulx, the museum’s Project Representative, said. The museum has acquired the rights to the Louvre name for thirty years, while works from French museums will be loaned for a ten-year period, once the museum has opened for...
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The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially Grand Louvre — in English the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris and located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60600 square metres (652300 square feet). The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.[4] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[5] During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces. The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural ...
Jérôme Prieur a filmé pendant deux ans la restauration de la et évoque son émotion de cinéaste. Extrait de "Le réveil d'Apollon, les coulisses d'une restauration" © 2004 ; réal : Jerôme Prieur ; coproduction Gédéon Programmes, ARTE France, Musée du Louvre, Total Distribution Commerciale : Europe Images International, www.europeimages.fr / Non commerciale : Images de la Culture -- CNC, www.cnc.fr/idc, Cultures France, www.culturesfrance.com musee.louvre.fr
The Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris and located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district).
After getting kicked out of the front lawn of the Louvre, the KM Legacy crew finds a beautiful but hidden hallway inside the building and throws it down with a spontaneous performance of their "choreo" set, which combines bboyin', poppin' and lockin'.
saeid Shanbehzadehs habib meftah boushehri,sabin novel,melani lomof play in Loouvre museum in Paris Traditional Songs, dances, vocals, and trance rhythms from the Persian gulf, featuring the unique talents of Saeid Shanbehzadeh The music of Bousher is a unique blend of Persian, Arabic, African and Indian traditions that have met over centuries at this cultural crossroads in southern provinces of Iran on the Persian Gulf. This diversity resulted in an amazingly rich musical tradition where music plays a vital role in all aspects of life, such as religion, work, recreation, social events, drama, music therapy and trance.The main instruments include the Ney-Anbon, NeyJofti, Dammam, Boogh, Zarbetempo, traditional flute and Senj. The Traditional Boushehri Music Ensemble, led by Saeid Shanbehzadeh has thrilled audiences throughout Iran, Europe and North America with the driving rythms and soaring melodies of this compelling music. Having studied with the old masters of Boushehr since his childhood, Saeid is an exciting master performer of Ney-Anbon, Damman and traditional dance. His ethno-musicological research throughout the Boushehr area makes him a living encyclopedia of the vast repertoire of Boushehri music in all its forms.
Plan your visit to The Louvre and know what to see and where to see it!
Some really famous paintings are shown here inside the Louvre along with the Mona Lisa. It was really cool seeing it in person. August 26, 1999.
Get Well Soon - Voice In The Louvre [Vexations 2010] Get Well Soon is a music project and a band of the German singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper (born September 28, 1982). © CITY SLANG, COOPERATIVE MUSIC Enjoy!
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The main construction contract for the US$1 billion (Dh3.67bn) Louvre Abu Dhabi museum is unlikely to be awarded until early March after the developer, the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), changed the format of the deal.
It was
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The National Newspaper
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Reporting from Lens, France -
It's an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by the two world wars.
Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. Work is to start soon on a sleek
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Los Angeles Times
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As museum brands go, the Louvre is tops. Like so many things French, it's synonymous with chic. A bijoux riverside residence right in the heart of Paris, it's a fortress that grew into a palace. It has a glass pyramid for a doorway and a shopping mall
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/80061812.html
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We’ll always have Paris. From left: Kris Mora, Christine Chipres, Sung Lee, Aliza Rosenberg, Tony Lee, Tina Hong, Richard Chang, Tani Nagai, Jennifer Wi Lin and Tony Lin. Photo courtesy of Richard Chang/The Register.
It was a shame that the Musee
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The Orange County Register
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France has handed over to Egypt five disputed, frescoed fragments that were held by the Louvre museum in Paris. . .
From the BBC.
The Egyptians had demanded the return of the Pharaonic fragments and had broken off ties with the Louvre.
They are
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Cronaca
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PARIS — Fragments of an ancient wall painting that caused a feud between Egypt and the Louvre Museum are heading home.
One of the five fragments of an ancient wall painting that France plans to return to Egypt on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009,
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Centre Daily Times
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, talk during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France plans to return five fragments of an ancient wall painting to Egypt, ending a feud over their ownership.
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News24
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PARIS (AP) - The Louvre Museum and the royal palace at Versailles were closed Thursday because of a French museum workers' strike that appears to be gathering steam.
Frustrated tourists gathered outside the landmark pyramid in the courtyard of the
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KLAS - Las Vegas Now
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If you're not traveling to Paris anytime soon to visit The Louvre, then grab the art museum's free iPhone app. It's packed with enough info about its famous paintings to make you feel like you're there on a private tour.
This amazingly slick free app
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Lifehacker
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The Louvre's famous pyramid turns 20 this year. When architect I.M. Pei first designed it in the 1980s, critics said tampering with the Louvre's majestic architecture was "sacrilegious." Today, it's a destination all its own.
When I.M. Pei's glass
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Southern California Public Radio
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When I.M. Pei's glass pyramid was first designed for Paris' ancient, beloved Louvre, critics called it "a gigantic gadget" and "a despotic act." Now, two decades later, the French love it — and the gleaming three-story piece of glass geometry has become
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NPR
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PARIS, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand and Louvre Museum officials inaugurated Friday the construction site of a branch of the museum in the northern city of Lens.
Louvre-Lens is expected to open by June 2012 and house
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/05/content_12591902.htm
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Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. Work is to start soon on a sleek glass-and-aluminum building that will house hundreds of the Louvre's treasures, from Egyptian artifacts to Renaissance paintings to Islamic art.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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It's an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by the two world wars.
Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. Work is to start soon on a sleek glass-and-aluminum building
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It's an abandoned coal mining site in a depressed corner of northern France that was pummeled by the two world wars.
Soon, a branch of the Louvre Museum will rise up on this unlikely site. Work is to start soon on a sleek glass-and-aluminum building
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LENS, France—France's culture minister has inaugurated the construction site of a new branch of the Louvre Museum in a depressed area of northern France.
The glass and aluminum museum is scheduled to open in 2012 in Lens. It's being built on a former
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Boston Globe
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The open-ended strike was called last week by all seven unions representing culture ministry employees to protest government plans to drastically trim the civil service by replacing only half of all retiring employees.
Culture Minister Frederic
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Independent Online
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People seenoutside the Louvre museum in Paris, Thursday Dec. 3, 2009. The royal palace at Versailles was closed to visitors because of a museum workers' strike that has disrupted the Louvre and other French tourist attractions. An official at the
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The Louvre Museum and the royal palace at Versailles were closed Thursday because of a French museum workers' strike that appears to be gathering steam.
Frustrated tourists gathered outside the landmark pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre, blocked
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PARIS—Some of the French capital's most important museums, including the Louvre, the Pompidou Center and the Musee d'Orsay, are closed because of a strike.
Strikers are upset about a government policy not to replace half of retiring public
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Boston Globe
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Paris -- The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, the chateau of Versailles and a host of other top French tourist sites could shut next week due to strike action over planned job cuts, unions warned last week.
A strike has already shut down the
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Expatica
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Roof of the Louvre - There is a dome on each side of the roof with a closed gate that opens from the other side. There are also two blue doors close to each dome and only the left ones open, once you get the strength upgrade. Getting the strength upgrade - There is an air conditioner on the right hand side (or to the left if you face the entrance - as shown here). Climb on it, vault onto the pipe and jump up to grab the ledge above. Pull up and continue to the right. Hang where the railing is, shimmy right to get past it and pull up. Do the same for the next railing (notice the guard through the window here). Jump up to grab the cable above and traverse across. Lara has just enough strength to make it, so do not stop at all. When you reach the other side, you gain the strength upgrade. Continue to the right and jump the gap. Climb down the pipe and dismount to the sill on the right. Lara gets the 'side-stepping' position, so press the right direction key to side-step. When you reach the open window, you get an inside view. If you are having trouble to stand in front of the window whilst side-stepping, climb down the pipe more until Lara's hand are on the same level with the windowsill. Grab the sill, shimmy to the right and pull up in front of the window. If you wait for a bit, you will see a guard coming to the window. He wants to get Lara, but he cannot climb on the sill; he is close to her though. Simply stand on the windowsill facing the guard and press Action to kick ...
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23 November 2009
Dubbed "Project Bardo," the program to upgrade the largest museum in the country is in full swing. "The project is proceeding in strict compliance with the contract and deadlines are being met. The project involves the building of
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Zawya.com
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The Turkish city of Izmir has asked Paris's Louvre museum to return two statues of Greek gods Zeus and Apollo, a newspaper reported Monday.
In a letter to the management of the French museum, mayor of the port city Aziz Kocaoglu demanded the return of
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The Independent
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The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "works drawn from the Louvre and other French museums and from its own permanent collection." But if the numbers in Adran
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A Daily Dose of Architecture
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2009/11/louvre-abu-dhabi.html
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A guy can put together various pieces of trash, spray paint it purple and mount it on a pedestal, but is it art?
Some people may think so. Then the question becomes, "what do people see that makes a thing art?"
When Leonardo DaVinci scribbled notes
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The Mac Observer
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Emirates Business 24-7, 18 November 2009
Rain will not affect the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum since there will be a transparent film between the two layers of the perforated dome structure, said its design team yesterday in an exclusive interview.
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The Louvre Accord of February 1987 was agreed to by the then G-6 nations of West Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, Canada and the United States to stop United States dollar depreciation. To understand the purpose of these accords, the prior
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Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, right, the chairman of TDIC, and Jean Nouvel, the French architect, inspect a mock-up of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s roof. Galen Clarke / The National
ABU DHABI // Inside a large warehouse on Saadiyat Island yesterday,
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Apple opened a new Apple store in France last week at the Carrousel du Louvre shopping center. It's a great location for Apple. Gizmodo says the Louvre gets 8.3 million visitors each year. Apple will soon be joined by another successful iconic
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Shopping Blog
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The biggest draw at the currently may be its special exhibit, The Louvre and the Masterpiece, which features several pieces from the Louvre, but for families wishing to visit the museum, I’ll offer another reason to go to MIA: the free Family Day
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11 November 2009
AMMAN (Star)-- French Ambassador in Jordan, Mrs Corinne Breuze, visited the new Jordan National Museum, located in Ras-El-Ain, for a meeting with Mr Faris Nimry, Director of the Jordan National Museum.
Both expressed their will
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Zawya.com
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Paris - Computer giant Apple will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software.
Although Microsoft had a head start promoting its new Windows operating
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Independent Online
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The free Louvre app allows iPhone and iPod touch users to can explore the galleries of the museum. It also has mundane information such as hours, maps and services. It's divided into five sections:
Meanwhile, if you want to explore the intricacies of
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Huliq.com
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Apple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets.
Beneath the great glass pyramid that marks the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris is Carrousel du Louvre, home to shops, a gourmet food court,
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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"We are very pleased to extend the experience of the Apple Store in France," Ron Johnson, Senior Vice President of Retail Apple, said in a statement. "The new store is located below the famous Louvre Pyramid, in the Carrousel du Louvre. This is the
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The Mac Observer
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There's a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it'll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei's glass pyramid.
According to Bloomberg, this'll be Apple's 277th store,
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Fast Company
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"Paris's Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to its collections," AFP reports.
"Free to download, the Louvre said the technology available in French and English will permit subscribers to
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MacDailyNews
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Featuring a bold geometric pattern inspired by the Louvre Pyramid, this collection from Incase was designed and created for the November 2009 opening of the Apple Store, Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris, France. The limited-edition collection, available
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