Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Of all the great masterpieces of early 20th-century art, Henri Matisse ...

'It’s like a reverse strip club where you’re the stripper,' says my friend in jaw-dropped disbelief. He, like me, is sitting naked and sweating in a mega-sized sauna alongside 300 other nude bathers.

BERLIN - Hundreds of Berliners gathered to take a dip in the Spree river Tuesday to protest a 100-year-old ban on swimming in the city's main waterway. Billed by organisers as a "swim demonstration", ...

Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" and "a modern wonder in the art of seeing". The greatest works of art see ...

Billed by organisers as a "swim demonstration", the gathering saw swimmers cool off from the summer heat with colourful bathing costumes and even the odd inflatable raft against the backdrop of Berlin ...