PARIS: It is a song close to French hearts, the building power of its defiant march swelling chests and bringing a tear to the eye. It turns out the “Song of...
PARIS: The French choreographer Jerome Bel caused a stir Thursday by saying that he had stopped taking flights and was turning his back on the “artistic jet...
PARIS: It has always been assumed that Edgar Degas worked in the wings and rehearsal rooms of the Paris Opera to produce his staggering pictures of its...
PARIS: A blockbuster Tutankhamun show set a new all-time French record Sunday, with 1.42 million visitors flocking to see the exhibition in Paris, the...
VENICE: The longest queues at the Venice Film Festival have not been to see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt or Scarlett Johansson. Instead the most hysterical...
VENICE, Italy: The makers of the world’s biggest blockbuster unveiled the first Hollywood action movie shot entirely in Arabic Wednesday at the Venice Film...
VENICE, Italy: A searing adaptation of one of most controversial novels about World War II divided critics at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, with some...
VENICE: The world’s richest people are playing a “black-hearted joke on all of us” Hollywood star Meryl Streep said at the premiere of a new movie based on...
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...