When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...

What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend’s entertaining canter through art-historical romances, takes us from Jan Steen to ...

Nazism was not only a political and social process, but also an aesthetic that, in its eagerness for purification, branded as ...

The Maison de Chateaubriand invites you to discover one of the first novels of Romantic literature, based on the impossible ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a massive gift of French art from collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz.

Though the value of the donated artwork was not disclosed, it’s thought to be comparable to last fall’s $75 million gift to ...

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works ...

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous sister.