He, as a citizen, pays the taxes that support his museum. His opinion ... I can remember when Balzac's novels were kept on the top shelf, though now they are freely given out in many public ...

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

In a year-long Hirshhorn show squirming with energy, the famous Brazilian twins replace discernment with populist exuberance.

Its Renaissance and Baroque-era villas, cobblestoned streets, medieval churches and crystalline waters led the French writer Honoré de Balzac to ... even a faucet-themed museum, which explores ...

Now, walking through the backrooms of the Nairobi National Museum, surrounded by million-year-old specimens her family collected, in laboratories her father built, next to an auditorium with her ...

People often think that art is distant and difficult to appreciate, but a garden is different; everyone knows how to admire a ...

Honore de Balzac observed in seemingly acidic fashion that “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” Eventually FDR latched onto Balzac’s nonsensical notion, and now it seems to be ...

The Tuileries make a perfect open-air retreat after hours of museum touring ... Home to a number of famous people — Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison ...

He, as a citizen, pays the taxes that support his museum. His opinion ... I can remember when Balzac's novels were kept on the top shelf, though now they are freely given out in many public ...