{"id":11945,"date":"2026-04-30T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11945"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:59:07","slug":"adventures-in-the-louvre-art-history-intrigue-elaine-sciolino","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/event\/adventures-in-the-louvre-art-history-intrigue-elaine-sciolino\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets in the Louvre: Art, History, Intrigue \/ Elaine Sciolino"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times-journalist Elaine Sciolino woont en werkt\u00a0 in Parijs sinds 2002. Naast haar artikelen voor de krant (onlangs nog over de invloed van Frankrijk op Maastricht in het kader van de TEFAF) schrijft ze boeken over Parijs.
\nIn het verleden schreef ze als Midden-Oostencorrespondent over Iran en over de Golfcrisis en ze was de eerste Amerikaanse \u00e9n vrouwelijke journalist die de net gekozen Iraanse president Ali Khamenei (nog v\u00f3\u00f3r hij ayatollah werd) mocht interviewen.
\nHaar meest recente boek ‘Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love With the World’s Greatest Museum<\/em>\u00a0is onlangs in paperbackversie uitgekomen en is vanavond onderwerp van de lezing. Elaine neemt ons in de kunst, de rijke geschiedenis en de fascinerende verhalen van het Louvre. Na afloop zal ze onze vragen beantwoorden en kunnen we met een glas wijn of fris in de hand napraten over onze ‘verliefdheid’ op het Louvre.<\/p>\n

Vrijdag 29 mei \/ deur open 19:30, start lezing 20:00 \/ Boekhandel Dominicanen Maastricht<\/strong>
\nEntr\u00e9e gratis met na afloop een glas wijn of fris
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

U moet WEL een gratis ticket bestellen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let op: ENGELSTALIGE lezing
\nDuur lezing: 45 minuten<\/p>\n

English text<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times journalist Elaine Sciolino has lived and worked in Paris since 2002. Apart from writing articles for the newspaper (most recently on France\u2019s influence on Maastricht in the context of TEFAF), she writes books about Paris. In the past,\u00a0she wrote about Iran and the Gulf Crisis as a Middle East correspondent and she was the first American and female journalist to be granted an interview with the newly elected Iranian president Ali Khamenei (before he became an ayatollah).<\/p>\n

Her most recent book, \u2018Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love With the World\u2019s Greatest Museum\u2019, has recently been published in paperback and is the subject of tonight\u2019s talk. Elaine will take us on a journey through the art, rich history and fascinating stories of the Louvre. Afterwards, she will answer our questions and we can enjoy a glass of wine or a soft drink and chat about our \u2018love affair\u2019 with the Louvre.<\/p>\n

Friday 29 May \/ doors open at 7.30 pm, lecture starts at 8.00 pm \/ Dominicanen Bookshop, Maastricht
\n<\/strong>Admission free, including a glass of wine or soft drink after the event
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have to reserve a (free) ticket<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Lecture in ENGLISH<\/em>
\nDuration of the lecture: 45 minutes
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TICKETS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Times-journalist Elaine Sciolino woont en werkt\u00a0 in Parijs sinds 2002. Naast haar artikelen voor de krant (onlangs nog over de invloed Haar meest recente boek ‘Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love With the World’s Greatest Museum is vanavond onderwerp van de lezing. Elaine neemt ons in de kunst, de rijke geschiedenis en de fascinerende verhalen van het Louvre. Na afloop zal ze onze vragen beantwoorden en kunnen we met een glas wijn of fris in de hand napraten over onze ‘verliefdheid’ op het Louvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12011,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-11945","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11945\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-francaise.nl\/maastricht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}