Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...

The UCLA Hammer Museum has received a gift of 60 American and European drawings from the collection of lyricist Hal David and his wife, Eunice. The donation adds a trove of 19th and 20th century works ...

In 1949, when she was 18, Bridget Riley began formal art study at London’s Goldsmiths’ College. A businessman’s daughter from the agricultural countryside, she had come to the big city, then ...

At 50, MC Hammer still has the moves. He may not have the Z Cavaricci pants or big selling albums anymore, but Hammer still has a huge audience in his golden years - thanks largely to his embrace of ...