A 1954 version of René Magritte's The Empire of Light sold for $121 million at Christie's in New York, much more than expected. One of 27 renderings of the scene by the French surrealist, the ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.

French art from the 16th into the early 19th centuries, the finest in America, is coming to the Art Institute of Chicago as a gift from the Horvitzes. This is big news.

Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1999) Edited Volumes (with J.P. Daughton): In God’s Empire: French ...