On the morning of August 21, 1911, Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia pulled off what has been almost universally described ...

Art has always wrestled with time. The same hands that create it must accept that it will one day decay. From cracking under ...

A report found the museum spent nearly four times as much on expanding its collection as it did on maintaining and protecting ...

The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugénie, which was found damaged near the Louvre after being dropped by ...

Step aside, all ye Hollywood crime thrillers. The biggest drama of them all played out in real life last month. No chilling ...

The heist at the Louvre highlighted the challenges of protecting highly valued works of art and other prized items, from the ...

Thieves made away with eight objects on display at the Paris museum, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense.

Empress Eugenie’s imperial crown, with more than 1,300 diamonds, was recovered on the day of the robbery outside the museum.

To watch a mural fade in Norwich is to witness a quiet kind of poetry — the beauty of in-fleetingness. The art may vanish, but its spirit lingers in memory, in photographs, in the spark it leaves ...

Three weeks after the spectacular jewel theft at the Louvre, the museum is accused of neglecting safety and security.

France’s state auditor issued a searing assessment of the Louvre Museum’s finances on Thursday (local time), alleging its ...

France's highest auditor says the theft of $157 million worth of jewels was a "deafening alarm bell" for the world-renowned ...