Day-glo yellow vests are an indelible symbol of the “gilets jaunes” protests that have gripped France for the past month. But one enduring image from the populist uprising has no neon in sight. It is, ...

The performance artist Deborah de Robertis has spoken out against the Musée d’Orsay and the French police following her arrest for recreating Edouard Manet’s Olympia (1863) at the museum this past ...

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Deborah De Robertis performing “Ma chatte, mon copyright” at the Louve (© Deborah De Robertis, photo by Guillaume Belvèze) PARIS — On October 18, as the rest of the art world in Paris ogled the art ...

AN ARTIST will be prosecuted for baring her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa in Paris, her lawyer said. Deborah de Robertis spread her bare legs before Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece on Sunday in ...

Deborah De Robertis, a performance artist, has been charged with damage and theft of cultural property after tagging five artworks, including Gustav Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde, with the slogan ...

A performance artist who bared her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa this week is not smiling, after authorities insisted that she stand trial for her X-rated display. Deborah De Robertis shouted ...

On May 6, two feminist activists entered Centre Pompidou-Metz in France and tagged Gustave Coubert’s 1866 work “The Origin of the World” with the “Me Too” slogan. Artist Deborah De Robertis claimed ...

The artist who last year disrobed in front of the Mona Lisa recently gave Catholic pilgrims the shock of their lives as she envisaged a naked Virgin Mary at Lourdes, one of France’s holiest sites of ...

Deborah de Robertis spread her bare legs before Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece in the Louvre museum in Paris. AN ARTIST will be prosecuted for baring her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa in Paris, ...