PARIS - Christened "cathedrals of consumption" by French author Émile Zola, the original department stores gave rise to the ...

The National Museum of Women in the Arts' $70 million renovation added spaces with the mission to be a vital center for ...

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from ...

It's a war of new against old, modern against time-honored, in two of the most exciting hospitality-obsessed cities in ...

Playing with lighting and layering, a young Amrita Sher-Gil depicted herself as bold, mischievous, and enigmatic --all at ...

A sensuous entanglement of female form and mythical sea creature arouses our gaze and draws us into an eclectic display of ...

The Art Institute has named Chicago tech billionaire and Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky as its new board chairman, putting the serial entrepreneur in charge of overseeing the museum, the school and ...

The highly influential British artist Frank Auerbach, a leading figure among the School of London painters, has died, aged 93 ...

Indulge in authentic recipes, from cheesy French onion soup to garlicky mussels. Save room for profiteroles for dessert at Café des Beaux-Arts in Palm Desert.

Rhinebeck, up in Duchess County, New York, has always been a florist’s town. It was known as the “violet capital of the world ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

In less than four years, Los Angeles’s Exposition Park will become the only site in the world to host events during three different Summer Olympics. A number of projects are on their way to be ...