In 1940-1941, as part of the American journalist Varian Fry’s rescue of anti-Nazi European intellectuals, artist Marcel Duchamp fled to New York, with a brief stopover in Morocco. This visit is the ...

The largest-ever collection of works by Leonardo da Vinci is drawing record crowds at the Louvre in Paris this year, the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. The Louvre has brought together more ...

Serge Bramly and Jean Coulon, trans. from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Flammarion (www.editions.flammarion.com), $45 (256p) ISBN 978-2-08-020098-3 Complemented by highly accessible prose from Bramly ...

Serge Bramly has won the Prix Interallié for his Le premier principe, Le second principe (The first principle, the second principle), maring the end of this year's French literary prize season.

A new exhibition at the Louvre includes Leonardo's sketches, drawings and 11 paintings. "You can really get into his brain and try to see how he... 500 Years After Leonardo Da Vinci's Death, France ...