Outside the Château de Gudanes, a masterpiece of Parisian elegance tucked into the Pyrenees, is a work van with carpentry tools overflowing from the back tray. Poppies and cornflowers fleck the long ...

I first discovered Portrait of Cléo de Mérode on the BCMA’s web kiosk as a curatorial assistant in the summer of 2024. At that time, the cabinet card was named Profile Portrait of a Woman after its ...

“We are addressing these really huge questions about revolution and violence and about bravery and courage,” said Carolyn Wright, co-director of “The Revolutionists, which opens Feb. 6 at the Maui ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you were around for it, the 1970s in San Francisco were a wild time. Entrenched in the terror of the Zodiac and Zebra killings, San ...

Two years ago, Gustav Klimt’s final portrait — a vibrant portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan — topped the artist’s auction record when it sold for a staggering $108 million. The Austrian ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

Olympe de Gouges pursued her literary career with new publications: plays, novels and essays. She confirmed her commitment to denouncing slavery by publishing her Réflexions sur les hommes nègres ...

“I’ve displayed these portraits under high ceilings too, but I think this is the lowest one,” says Franco-Indian visual artist Olympe Ramakrishna, referring to the low ceiling at Alliance Française of ...

President Donald Trump’s portrait is unveiled at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on Aug. 1, 2019. Reporter Not all state capitols have a collection of presidential portraits, but Colorado is ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...

This weekend marked the close of the historic Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) retrospective at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, the first time the Art Deco master has been so honored in the United ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...