On Christmas Eve in 1894, Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha was checking lithographic prints at the Parisian studio Lemercier when he received an unexpected call from the nearby Théâtre de ...

"The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art" Credit: Brian Chilson Like a renegade plant sprouting through cracks in the concrete, Art Nouveau blossomed in Europe and the U.S.

We are all familiar with the cataclysmic impact of Gutenberg’s printing press on written communication. Chances are that almost every word you’ve read in the past year – with the exception of the ...

The pediment of the Grand Palais, a Beaux-Arts wonder that has become one of Paris’s most iconic structures, makes its ambitions plain: “This Monument was dedicated by the Republic to the Glory of ...