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Louvre's Going 'Merican

An astonishing 15% of all patrons at the Louvre are Americans, and the May 19 opening of that Da Vinci Code movie isn't going to lower that percentage anytime soon. The Louvre will soon be putting Americans on its walls, when it launches an exhibit called "American Artists and the Louvre," with works by Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Hart Benton.

That's just the beginning of the American invasion. The Louvre is bringing over novelist Toni Morrison for separate programs in the fall, and it's begun a art-exchange program with Atlanta's High Museum that will continue for the next three years. Can we also exchange Tom Hanks for Audrey Tautou?

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