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This event will be held in English.
Organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center.
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
Description provided by the publisher.
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress.
Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure.
Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museum’s front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.
Speaker
Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris Bureau Chief for The New York Times, based in France since 2002. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Only Street in Paris and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Seine: The River That Made Paris. Sciolino was decorated Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2010 for her contributions to the friendship between France and the United States. http://www.elainesciolino.com.
Venue
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
Reid Hall, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination are not responsible for the views and opinions expressed by their speakers and guests.
