"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 ...

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 ...

This travel guide provides a complete overview of Riga in 2025 – the capital of Latvia, known for its Art Nouveau architecture, medieval Old Town, and lively cultural scene. Located along the Daugava ...

It’s like two cities for the price of one. In northern Spain, Gijón both occupies and straddles a small peninsula that juts into the Cantabrian Sea. On either side of the headland you’ll find separate ...

Mannheim’s venerable art museum, the Kunsthalle, opened its doors in 1909 in a beautiful art nouveau edifice built two years earlier. It was the brainchild of a young man named Fritz Wichert, whose ...

Christie's International Real Estate, an estate agent that is specialed in luxury properties, has been given the task of ...

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 ...