New York Magazine

Mona Lisa Smile

In Mona Lisa Smile, set in 1953, Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, an art-history professor from California who lands a teaching job at Wellesley. From the look of things, she appears to have ...
Forbes

The ‘Mona Lisa’ Soup Protest, Explained

This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) gesturing as they stand in front of Leonardo Da Vinci's ...
CNN

‘Mona Lisa’ will get its own room under a 10-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark that will ...
NPR

The Louvre Museum looks to rehouse the 'Mona Lisa' in its own room — underground

The room which houses the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris was last renovated only five years ago, in 2019. But the museum is now already looking at making further improvements. In an interview ...
The Washington Post

Put the Mona Lisa in its own building — for its sake and the visitors’

Victoria Coates is a vice president at the Heritage Foundation. The brazen theft of crown jewels from France’s Louvre museum reveals a significant danger to the extraordinary works of art it contains.
CNN

Protesters hurl soup at the ‘Mona Lisa’ in Paris

Protesters hurled soup at the “Mona Lisa” painting in Paris on Sunday, but it was protected from damage by its glass casing. The environmental group Riposte Alimentaire — which roughly translates to ...