"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in the late ...

Place Stanislas is an impressive square in Nancy, where locals and visitors sun themselves on the terrace of Café Foy in the morning, and at lunchtime in front of Brasserie Jean Lamour. They follow ...

In mid-November of 2024, we took a quick, three-day trip from Paris to Riga, Latvia. One of the main purposes of the trip was that we are big Art Nouveau aficionados, and prior to the trip we learned ...

It’s hard to be aware of the limitations of human perception when we can’t quite wrap our minds around what else might be out there. For instance, there are animals and insects that perceive the world ...

RIGA (Reuters Life!) - The Latvian capital of Riga has been called the Bangkok of the Baltic for its mix of cheap beer, sex clubs and stag party visitors. But a quiet corner just outside the very ...

Perched on the edge of Norway's dramatic coastline, Ålesund is a town that seems almost too beautiful to be real. After a devastating fire in 1904, this coastal gem was rebuilt in stunning Art Nouveau ...

When Martine Caeymaex, then a curator at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, asked David Hockney what he wished to visit during his trip to Brussels in 1992, his fax was curt: “STOCLET”. Of the many ...

Ruth Sacks receives funding from the National Arts Council for research in the Congo conducted while undergoing a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Years ago, while I was in Belgium on an ...