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CNN
8 hours ago
- Politics
- CNN
Could The Iran Nuclear Attacks Backfire? - Amanpour - Podcast on CNN Podcasts
Could The Iran Nuclear Attacks Backfire? Amanpour 58 mins The primary goal of Israeli and American attacks on Iran was to remove the country's "existential" nuclear threat. But what if the attacks have the opposite effect, motivating the Iran to pull of the non-proliferation treaty and resume their nuclear program covertly? In parliament, Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to suspend cooperation with the IAEA. This means that Iran would halt inspections, reporting and oversight activities. Iran always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful. For some perspective, we bring you Christiane's 1995 report on her visit to Iran's earliest nuclear power plant in Bushehr. Also on today's show: Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control; Elaine Sciolino, author of "Adventures in the Louvre"; Mark Henson, Dir. of Federal Advocacy and Government Affairs, The Trevor Project
Times
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The secret life of the Louvre: inside the world's biggest museum
While reading Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino's entertaining deep dive into the history — and dusty cellars — of the revered Paris institution, I experienced a flashback to my teenage years. One summer in the late 1980s, I moped — dragging my feet, vocally miserable — on a family tour of the museum's interminable galleries, gardens and corridors, and a seemingly endless assortment of Louis-the-somethings and Charles-the-whatevers. For a whole day. Sciolino sympathises. The subtitle of her book — How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum — could be read as a plea for patience. 'The museum exhibits more than 30,000 works of art in more than 780,000 sq ft of exhibition space,' she writes, making it the biggest museum
Hindustan Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Exploring the mysteries of the Louvre
IF YOU WERE to walk through each of the Louvre's 400 galleries, you would cover about 14.5km (enough to burn off even the most calorific of Parisian indulgences). Stop to look at each artwork for 15 seconds, and you would be there for about 145 hours. As a result, few of the nearly 9m people who visit the Louvre each year leave feeling as if they have truly mastered it. Elaine Sciolino, formerly the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, has volunteered herself as a chatty, amiable tour guide. In 'Adventures in the Louvre' she does not try to take readers through every room or compile the museum's definitive history. Instead she focuses on themes and small details that will interest them. The author has a journalist's knack for posing a good question. Of all the faces in the Louvre, 'Who is the fairest one of all?' she asks Sébastien Allard, director of paintings, who offers five suggestions (by Jacques-Louis David, Rembrandt, Pisanello, Titian and Johannes Vermeer). Many Louvre employees find Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa', the most famous work of art in the world, overrated. Yet around four-fifths of visitors come mainly to see it, bypassing other treasures. Even those who are attuned to the collection's subtleties have something to learn. For example, 'MNR' (for Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery) is marked on the placards of around 1,700 works. The acronym denotes 'orphan' works, probably seized from Jews in the second world war, which are in the Louvre's care but not part of its collection. For the Louvre, history ended in 1848—later masterpieces are in France's other national museums—but its transformation continues. Recently Emmanuel Macron, the country's president, announced a renovation costing €700m-800m ($800m-900m), which would, among other things, give the 'Mona Lisa' her own gallery. Visitors will have even more need of a discerning guide. For more on the latest books, films, TV shows, albums and controversies, sign up to Plot Twist, our weekly subscriber-only newsletter
