Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louvre remains closed on Monday as French investigators race against time to catch the thieves - Benoit Tessier/Reuters ...

The recent spate of art and treasure thefts in France has brought the country’s cultural heritage into the spotlight once again. It was shortly after the world had heard about the Louvre Museum Heist, ...

Two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in southern France last month have been found, and six people arrested, local authorities said Friday ...

La Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot is housed in the Hôtel du Breuil-de-St-Germain in Langres, France. (image via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) A small museum in northeastern France reported a ...

PARIS (AP) — Two thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and stole four valuable Renoir paintings Tuesday from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of the artworks ...

The latest theft to strike a European cultural institution was not a painting or a jeweled crown, but something far less obvious: a book cover. As first reported by local French radio station ICI Pays ...

As the U.S. celebrates 250 years of independence, a French museum is exploring how American artists transformed modern art and how ideas crossed the Atlantic to shape it.

A second French museum was raided by thieves just hours after the brazen $100 million heist at the Louvre. About 2,000 gold and silver coins — some 235 years old — were swiped from the Maison des ...

A government audit of 1,218 French museums has revealed that some 80% do not know the full contents of their collections, with many collections facing further serious hazards, Libération reported. The ...

A Look at the Theft of Renoir Paintings From a French Museum and Other High-Profile Heists PARIS (AP) — Thieves hit the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera and made off with four valuable works by the ...

Masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh will be among 300 works displayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Emirate said Sunday, as it aims to become a leader in fine art. The museum, built ...