Gustave Courbet's infamous nude painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) was targeted over the weekend by protesters who tagged it with the words "Me Too." The 1886 painting is on ...

In his new book, Claude Schopp explains how a chance discovery led him to identify the woman in the painting Scandal has never been far from Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, one of the most ...

I called Jafar Alam, former head of the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association. He denied that profit margins were that high. “It varies by ship and depends on many factors, such as the current ...

TIME’s editor-in-chief on why the Silence Breakers are the Person of the Year It became a hashtag, a movement, a reckoning. But it began, as great social change nearly always does, with ...

Here are the results. Until now, the identity of the subject in Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World,” a meticulous close-up of a woman’s genitals, was unknown. The actor and his ...

Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style ...

Heads turn. Eyes widen. Realizations alight. “Those are the breakers!” people murmur to one another. At the Paris Olympics, where breaking is set to make its debut with the women’s ...

The Stone, led by artistic director John Zorn, serves as a home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists at the College of Performing Arts’ Glassbox Theater. A composer, arranger, ...

"J.D. is someone you may know played a pivotal role in the Eagles," Don Henley tells crowd. "He wasn’t in the band but he certainly co-wrote some of our biggest hits." "J.D. is someone you may ...

Gustave Baumann was an American and German artist known for his significant contribution to the color woodcut revival in America. His color woodcuts often depicted southwestern landscapes, ancient ...

Kidney stones are common in adults, and the rate is rising. About one of every 11 adults in the U.S. will have a kidney stone at some point in their life. People who are assigned male at birth ...