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The Louvre takes its shows on the road

International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci)

As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary shows this autumn to spread the French cultural message to U.S. museums in Atlanta, Denver and Indianapolis.
As part of a three-year partnership with the Louvre that started a year ago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will present three new exhibitions, beginning this month, that explore the evolution of the Paris museum's collections during the Napoleonic era and the Enlightenment, a time of heightened interest in ancient art and archaeology.

The central exhibition, "The Louvre and the Ancient World," from Oct. 16 to Sept. 7, 2008, features more than 70 masterpieces from the Louvre's Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman collections.

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