In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.

Ary Scheffer’s Paris studio was a vibrant meeting place for painters, writers, and musicians - Chopin among them. A true centre of Romantic life in 19th-century Paris, its spirit has been revived at ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

There are various locations to visit to approach this including the popular harbour-side M Shed museum but I opt for a trip ...

With lavish rooms, historical spaces and an outpost of the tony international sushi restaurant Matsuhisa, the Mandarin ...

The future of industrial towns like Scunthorpe and Port Talbot may rest on the wider fate of the UK's steel industry.

The show at the Frick Collection in New York brings together a trio of paintings by 17th century Dutch master Johannes ...

historical romance flicks stretch far past corsets and crumpets — reaching everywhere from 1960s Wyoming to 19th-century China. So, whether you're longing for your favorite Jane Austen adaptation or ...

An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...