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Quelle Tragédie! McDonalds to Open at France's Louvre Museum

Ah, McDonald's: Those golden arches are the ubiquitous symbol of cheap, convenient American grub. Or perhaps the universal symbol for high-fructose corn syrup? And with the U.S. market saturated (fun fact: the furthest you can get from a Mickey Dee's in this country is 107 miles), their fast-food empire has spread overseas, becoming a reliable shorthand for the ever-creeping tentacles of globalized consumerism. Case in point: McDonald's has just announced that they've cracked a market that was previously thought to be nigh-unassailable: the Louvre museum in Paris....  read more

Louvre debuts the "Funeral of Mona Lisa"

In the long-gone days before technology, Mona Lisa was revered for her enigmatic smile. But since we've entered the digital age, she's earned the less-distinguished title of most-photoshopped painting in history. Amid a slew of Lisa's re-imagined with Marge Simpson or Paris Hilton's head (or the ever-delightful cow of Gary Larson fame), Yan Pei-Ming's sober display, "The Death of Mona Lisa," stands out with refreshing distinction....  read more

Louvre to feature comics for the first time

We love our comics here in the U.S. of A., but certain stereotypes have lingered about the artistic pretensions of the wine-and-cheese set across the Atlantic. Well, at long last we can congratulate ourselves on the good taste that compelled us to keep those boxes of Annie Oakley issues secreted in the attic (not to mention the handsome hardcover edition of Watchmen.) That bulwark of Western European high culture, the Louvre Museum, is at long last putting in exhibits on comics. ...  read more