In Paris, you can visit the homes-turned-museums of four famous French writers: Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand and Marcel Proust. Follow the Untapped guide and get to know some of the ...

In addition to photography’s somewhat tatty reputation—the famed French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu pegged it as “middle-brow art,” in a book he published right around the time Ettlinger ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided to ...

It sounds like a caper from a movie: A thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.