In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow director Bryan Forbes and to answer questions from an audience of film enthusiasts.

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable ...

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

Banksy is the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring i...

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can onl...

On October 1, 2013, the elusive street artist Banksy launched a month-long residency in New York, an...

The tumultuous history of the Louvre Museum, founded in 1793, and its fabulous art collections, an i...


In the aftermath of the fire that struck Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the cathedral is in danger of ...

If something of import has taken place in our lifetimes, chances are that Steve McCurry has photogra...

In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which th...

A young city girl explores the idea of beauty with her uncle Michel, a retired farmer from the Beauc...