Visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris can now tour the galleries with a Nintendo games console instead of a traditional audio guide in hand. The innovative video devices come complete with a navigation system and a guided “masterpieces” walk.
One of the finest and most controversial living writers, Jeanette Winterson, talks to Eve Jackson about her harrowing and at times hilarious memoir, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" Also on the show, the Louvre gets a mini-me and Paul McCartney has a new video starring Johnny Depp and Nathalie Portman.
He ate wolf meat to get into character: the actor Liam Neeson tells Eve Jackson about his new film and how he's feeling about turning sixty. Also on the programme, a sneak peek of the new Islamic wing of the Louvre museum in Paris, and Azerbaijan's banishment of all foreign soap operas.
Discover the distant shores of Haiti, Mexico and Vanuatu via the Louvre's new exhibition. French Nobel Literature Prize winner Le Clézio has selected pieces to take us on a visual journey across the seas. From Haitian scenes of revolution and re-interpretations of voodoo to classic Mexican art, it's a rich melting-pot of culture.
Paris’s world renowned Louvre art gallery announced on Friday it is to send numerous works of art to Japan in a gesture of solidarity with the country 10 months after it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the Sorbonne...there are many landmarks and names here in France that are internationally renowned. The French government appears to be growing keener to cash in on that brand recognition. It has set up an agency which is specialised in charging private companies to use government properties. It's just one example of how the French state is trying to earn a buck as a business.
France's famed Louvre has consolidated its position as the world's most visited museum, welcoming a record 8.8 million visitors in 2011, up five percent from the previous year.
We're headed to the Forbidden City in China via the Louvre for an exhibition about Chinese emperors and French kings. The two have more in common than you might think - we show you the differences between the two countries' artistic traditions, but also their influence over one another as the Far East and Europe collide through art.
MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Wed. 3/8/2011: It's summer in France and most French newsrooms are partly on holidays - hence page upon page of magazine material and summer supplements. We take a look. Also: an enterprising Italian hopes to bring the Mona Lisa on a visit back to Italy, but the Louvre is not so keen on the idea.
In Tuesday's French newspapers - Martine Aubry announces her much-awaited presidential candidacy, but still gets upstaged up Nicolas Sarkozy, French parents look enviably on paternity leave in Norway, and the Louvre explains why the Mona Lisa can't be loaned to Florence.
