There’s a fall ritual in Paris by which inhabitants of the city and its more upscale suburbs seek redemption from the sloth and nudity of summer by worshiping in the numerous temples of art and [...]

On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian laborer living in Paris. Now, 100 years later, a new documentary puts together the missing pieces of the theft and of the life of the thief. Read this exclusive interview with the filmmaker.

July 4, 2011 – France Revisited celebrates the Fourth of July with a photo reportage of the major Statues of Liberty in Paris, along with the author’s homegrown version. Here below is the original 1/16th plaster [...]

“There’s nothing to see here,” he says before we enter room #5 at the Auberge Ravoux, the inn where Vincent Van Gogh lived and died at Auvers-sur-Oise, 18 miles northwest of Paris. “There’s nothing to [...]

Two ways of looking at the Seine: through the eyes of the Impressionists in the guidebook “La Seine Impressionniste” and through the eyes of a videographer in the video “Notre train quotidien” (Our Daily Train).

History has taught France the dangers of seeing a dominant religion play a leading role in public policy. Yet it has also left this secular nation with a treasure trove of cathedrals, churches, monasteries, altarpieces [...]

Early autumn in Paris a travel writer and culture journalist can be lulled into thinking he’s working by the mere fact that he’s received a dozen invitations for art openings.

Little by little over the coming decade Paris as we think of it will spread out from the confines of its peripheral boulevards and embrace its neighboring suburbs in the creation of Grand Paris, Greater Paris. [...]