She Was Marie-Antoinette’s Favorite Painter
What if we told you that just about every painting you’ve seen of Marie-Antoinette was…
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Ibiza’s Long Lost Utopian City Built Inside a Bouncy Castle
Before the days, and nights, of Ibiza’s club-culture tourism and world famous pool parties that…
She was the Black Actress Who Refused to Pass
In 1934, a young woman stepped off the train in Los Angeles’ Union Station. Even…
That Quiet Couple Next Door Who Brought Magic Mushrooms to the Masses
Ah the psychedelic 60s, what a time to be out of your mind. It’s easy…
A Dinner Party with History’s Most Notorious Art Thieves
Imagine gathering around a dinner table with the guy who stole the Mona Lisa, an…
Heartbreak Hides in the Walls of This Paris Mansion
Museums are usually a feast for the eyes, but rarely are they this much of…
The Eiffel Tower’s Lost Art Nouveau Restaurant
Meet us for dinner in Paris under the Iron Lady … circa 1900? Over the…
In the back of a Taxi with John Lennon and Bob Dylan (on Drugs)
John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done heroin that…
Where the Harlem Renaissance Got Its Swing
On West 140th Street and Lenox Avenue today, a drab supermarket squats in front of…
An Ode to the Man Who Dressed Ziggy Stardust
Every once in a while, pop culture gives us a duo whose legacies feel almost…
Almost in America: Portraits from Ellis Island
“Amidst crowds of anxious immigrants milling about, Hine had to locate his subject, isolate [them]…
Art Nouveau’s Obsession with the Peacock
The sensational peacock first made landfall in Europe about twenty centuries ago when its sparkling,…