Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—to its own subterranean room. Now, that idea is becoming ...

Art critics hailed news of the move, saying that the precious painting has stolen the spotlight for long enough.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to expand the Louvre and move the Mona Lisa to a new exhibition space, after the museum warned of overcrowding.

“The Louvre will be redesigned and restored to become the epicenter of art history for our country and beyond,” he said in a carefully choreographed speech, as the Mona Lisa’s famous gaze ...

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in ...

PARIS, France — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own ... Macron said that ...

The world's most visited museum is also overcrowded, antiquated and desperate for renovations that will start next year and ...

French President Emanuel Macron Tuesday announced plans for a major renovation of the Louvre in Paris, the world's ...

expanded Louvre,” French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday, with the Mona Lisa peering over his shoulder. The announcement came after the world’s most visited art museum had warned ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

He also announced that the Mona Lisa — one of the most famous of the estimated 35,000 works of art in the Louvre's collection — would be relocated to its own new, independently accessible and ...