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Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. It’s your chance to buy a branch of the Louvre. No, not the European paintings collection or the Egyptian treasures, but – in 14 lots offered on the Drouot Digital website this week –  a batch of boxwood plants from the Jardin de l’Infante, a garden tucked against the south-eastern corner of the Louvre, between the Sully Wing and the River Seine. Each lot offers you 60–70 Sempervirens boxwoods, ‘representing a square of their current a...

Mona Lisa is alone but still smiling 27 Jan, 2021 02:03 AM 7 minutes to read The Mona Lisa is alone. Photo / Dmitry Kostyukov, The New York Times New York Times By: Liz Alderman With the Louvre closed because of the pandemic, museum officials are pushing ahead on a grand restoration and cleanup. From her bulletproof case in the Louvre Museum, Mona Lisa's smile met an unfamiliar sight the other morning: emptiness. The gallery where throngs of visitors swarmed to ogle her day after day was a void, deserted under France's latest coronavirus confinement. Around the corner, the W...

ET Panache NEWS Powered by Mona Lisa's smile isn't greeting visitors at the Louvre; a small army of artisans working overtime to complete restoration before reopening SECTIONS Mona Lisa's smile isn't greeting visitors at the Louvre; a small army of artisans working overtime to complete restoration before reopeningBy Share Synopsis New York Times Instead of waiting until Tuesdays — the sole day that the Louvre used to close — curators, restorers, conservators and other experts are pressing ahead five days a week to complete major renovations that had s...