VENICE: The star-studded Venice film festival opens next week with a row raging about the inclusion of controversial directors Roman Polanski and Nate Parker....
PARIS: One sunny summer Sunday in 1944, Madeleine Riffaud hopped off her bicycle and followed a German officer who was taking a stroll on one of the most...
PARIS: For Ernest Hemingway, whose bravado was matched only by his thirst, his liberation of the Ritz Hotel’s bar in Paris was the stuff of legend. Officially...
PARIS: The world’s most famous painting, the “Mona Lisa,” is to be moved so her room in the Louvre can be spruced up, the Paris museum said Friday. Leonardo...
PARIS: She was one of the great beauties of antiquity, and soon we are going to find out what the “Venus de Milo” smells like. The Louvre in Paris has asked...
PARIS: A newly discovered version of Eugene Delacroix’s Orientalist masterpiece, “Women of Algiers” went on show for the first time in Paris Thursday. The...
PARIS: On the day that Paris fashion paid tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld, designers festooned the men’s catwalk collections with flowers. Virgil Abloh...
PARIS: The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself sold for 162,500 euros ($182,000) at a Paris auction on Wednesday - nearly...
PARIS: Every weekend a queue snakes down the street not far from the Moulin Rouge in Paris. This is not some horde of clueless foreigners easy prey for the...
PARIS: The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself is to go under the hammer Wednesday at a Paris auction house. Billed as “the...
PARIS: Her desserts are often not at all sweet and she couldn’t give a fig if people complain that they don’t look great on Instagram. But that did not stop...
PARIS: She has gone down in his history as the muse who was almost Picasso’s match, but a new show in Paris tries to drag Dora Maar out from under his shadow....
CANNES, France: For the last fortnight, the fashion world’s capital shifted south from Paris to the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival. We run our...
CANNES, France: Quentin Tarantino stormed into Cannes Tuesday with “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” and critics hailed it as his best movie in years. They...
CANNES, France: Maryam Touzani never forgot the day a young woman knocked on her door in Tangier asking for work. “She was from a village and she was heavily...
PARIS: It was once decried as an architectural “obscenity,” but as the Louvre’s glass pyramid turns 30 Friday, it has become a cherished icon of the French...
PARIS: Feminist icon Gloria Steinem would not be so meek “or worried about approval” if she had her life again. The veteran campaigner, one of the leaders of...
PARIS: A new generation of rising fashion stars alarmed by the plight of the planet are designing in a radically different way to their elders. Some of the...
PARIS: It is billed as a human “safari,” the most controversial and potentially game-changing Russian cultural export since the Ballets Russes left the West...
PARIS: Many had thought it as good as dead, destined for a place in fashion oblivion next to plus fours. But last week a most unexpected thing happened on...
PARIS: Paris men’s fashion week started Tuesday with a tsunami of new talent but with shows also threatened by the “yellow vests” protest...
PARIS: One of France’s most celebrated screenwriters is taking on its biggest taboo, the bloody conflict in Algeria, in a new war film. Abdel Raouf Dafri told...
CANNES, France: Rising U.S. star Issa Rae shrugged off sexualizing men in her hit television series “Insecure,” Wednesday, saying it was time for the “female...
CANNES, France: Once upon a time, people made an effort to get to know each other learning each other’s names, say before hopping into bed. A new dating show...
CANNES, France: “Teletubbies” creator Andrew Davenport has come up with a new show “guaranteed to stop children climbing the walls,”...