Even though her most famous portraits feature her nude, save for a spangly headdress and a skirt of bananas, Josephine Baker is remembered as some kind of saintly figure. To hear her adopted son ...

Josephine Baker, the world’s first black superstar, was a master of image and reinvention. In the 1920s, she twerked for Paris audiences before there was such word as “twerking.” Later, the ...

Deep in the French countryside sits a medieval castle, Château des Milandes, with a most unlikely history. Akio, from Japan, and his brother, Brian, from the north African country of Algeria, have ...

After she escaped the slums of St. Louis for Paris in 1925, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) became the most famous entertainer in the world. Pictured in a string of beads and a skirt of fake bananas, she ...

Famous for her dancing, comedy and costumes, there was never a risk of boredom when Josephine Baker took the stage. An international Jazz Age star and a World War II spy to boot?It sounds like a story ...

She entertained Europe between the wars and still inspires artists and activists now, as a new exhibition in Berlin shows. A 1920s portrait of Josephine Baker by ...