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 ...

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

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

The museum is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world, including works by such stylistically diverse luminaries as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Earlier this month, we were given a tour of the newly reopened Hôtel Balzac by Nicolas Egloff ([email protected]), director of sales and marketing of Vivres-Les Maison’s Bertrand hotel group ...

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 ...