To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and ...

An art critic shares her guide to exploring the art treasures of Paris, from some of the most well-known to places you may have overlooked To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it is the ...

To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start.

Why does Abbesses station bear this name? Located on line 12 of the Paris metro, Abbesses is the deepest station in the capital, nestling 36 meters underground. But behind its famous Art Nouveau ...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso began being an artist at the age of prodigy—at about seven—and at seventy-five he remains the complete phenomenon he has been throughout the intervening years. The excesses ...

In March 2017, our family of six moved from a small village outside Paris into a tiny cottage bordering a cemetery at the foot of the Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart) cathedral in Montmartre. It was a ...

Unnamed crosses stand on the edge of plots at an old cemetery in a small, gold-rush town in central Queensland. For decades it was a mystery who these graves belonged to in the small town of ...

Perhaps one of our more unusual historical destinations, Highgate Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Highgate, London. The cemetery in its original form (the older, Western part) was consecrated ...

Bien sûr, there was only one Edith Piaf. The Little Sparrow had more than a haunting vibrato and rafter-reaching vocal power; France’s national chan­teuse had a soul she laid bare to her fans.

A victim of its good looks, Montmartre enticed first Amélie, then Emily. The Instagram entourage followed, but there’s a hip ...