When Winnie Wong first saw Dafen Oil Painting Village in 2006, it was nothing like she’d imagined. Then a graduate student in art history at MIT, Wong had read about the Chinese village in The New ...

The Mona Lisa Smile in question belongs, of course, to its star, Julia Roberts. Why? For no particular reason, actually. It’s just what Italian professor Bill Dunbar (Dominic West) calls her — Mona ...

The Mona Lisa’s real rise to stardom began with a crime. On a summer morning in 1911, the painting vanished from the Louvre.