When it comes to creating inspiring green spaces, these landscape designers and architects make the outdoors great ...

Even then, the naked dress wasn't exactly new. In the 1920s, Josephine Baker shocked audiences with her barely-there performance ensembles. Marilyn Monroe wore her famous nude-colored, ...

And no offense to anyone with a busted Nintendo Switch—but grabbing a drink at this Victorian wallpaper-slathered speakeasy ...

FKA Twigs and Chloe Sevigny are set to star opposite each other in a new erotic thriller film, 'The Lonely Woman', slated for ...

The new exhibition features works by Black American artists who lived in Europe from the 1890s to the middle of the 20th ...

Janelle Monáe may have gone to the future on hit album Dirty Computer, but they are heading back in time for their next project. The Antebellum actor-singer will be embodying legendary entertainer and ...

When Josephine Baker’s ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on 30 November 2021 many French people were surprised. Why was an American-born performer, known mainly for her energetic ...

Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.