My experience of seeing pieces of Dhaka muslin in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was a conflicted one. A part of me ...
Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...
Joséphine Bonaparte and Térézia Tallien developed a new way of dressing ... Stonehenge left early modern viewers cold.... The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by Robyne ...
But this region is not only famous for being a tourist haven: Les Trois-Ilets was the birthplace of Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte ... at the Centre d'Art Musée Paul-Gauguin ...
She focuses on three women: Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, who became Joséphine Bonaparte; Jeanne Françoise Julie ... Much later, Jacques-Louis David, the artist most identified with the ...
Tourists armed with selfie sticks outside glittering mansions. Queues winding outside Instagram-famous restaurants. Impatient waiters shouting orders. Relentless noise. This is the mayhem I expected ...
There’s your story, there’s my story, there’s the truth,” says a character in “The Great Yes, the Great No.” “And then there’s actually what happened.” The man who poses that teasingly philosophical ...