The Louvre Lens, an new outpost of the Musée du Louvre by SANAA and Imrey Culbert, opens to the public in Lens, France. ... 2 Interior design internship at Paolo Moschino; ...

Lens was ‘named’ by the then prime minister in November 2004, and the competition for the building launched six weeks later. A shortlist was established quickly and the SANAA team (with whom the New ...

This week marks the first anniversary of Louvre-Lens, and already 750,000 people have visited the sleek glass and polished aluminum building, 200 kilometers north of Paris. It’s a very different ...

Unlike her, Karl, another local, had never set foot in the Louvre-Lens before a friend introduced him to the Fleuve du Temps ...

An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in society.

Paris' world-famous Louvre museum is setting itself a formidable challenge: kickstarting a cultural revival in the downtrodden northern French town of Lens, where unemployment is sky-high and ...

Now, with Lens's mines gone and its economy in decline, Paris is returning the favor by sending Lens masterpieces from the Louvre—and with them, a large chunk of the museum's global brand.

At the Louvre Lens, Imparting the Albatross of Displacement Through Art The works in this striking soon-to-close exhibition are diverse, but the show as a whole never arrives at a coherent point ...