NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How to Fall in Love with the Louvre.

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...

A poster tribute leading up to the 50th Alaska Folk Festival and composing spontaneous stories of 55 words or less are among the activities during this month’s First Friday.

Wayne Higby, director of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum and a longtime ceramic artist and educator, will receive the Smithsonian Visionary Award for ...

In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...

To truly get an impression of the place, the only way is by traveling it, she believes. For the next 44 years, Rawson ...

Now, a new virtual museum provides a glimpse into Tubman ... such as pieces of intricately decorated ceramics, cast iron cookware, and polished animal bones. These items imply that the family ...

When I visited artist Jessica Stoller at her New Jersey studio in a former lace factory a few weeks ago she quoted a line from Miranda July’s new book All Fours to me: “In a patriarchy ...

The 97-year-old Brazilian has opened a foundation in Portugal to house the world’s most significant selection of Ming and Qing export porcelain Renato de Albuquerque, standing outside the ...

Below, we'll explore three of the most common options for dish materials: ceramic, porcelain, and stoneware. Read on to learn more about each of these and why you might select them for your home.

Carol McNicoll, who has died aged 81, was a pioneering studio potter whose witty, postmodern work transformed the ceramics scene in 1970s Britain. She belonged to a cohort of women who studied at ...