Joanna Boyce Wells, "Study of Fanny Eaton" (1861), oil on paper laid to linen (photo courtesy the Yale Center for British Art) Did you know that the German nature painter Maria Sibylla Merian ...

PARIS — As a spy for the French Resistance, Stephane Hessel survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead. As a diplomat, he helped ...

In the brief national soul-searching that followed the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, many observers, including President Obama, reflected on the troubling excess of anger and moral indignation in ...

“I could just talk about art all day,” says Katy Hessel, grinning as she sips her tea. We’re at the Morgan Library in Manhattan on a beautiful spring day, discussing, yes, art—and all the ways Hessel ...

One of the literary world's unexpected successes over the past year has been a book written by former World War II French resistance fighter Stephane Hessel. In Time for Outrage, Hessel calls for ...

Katy Hessel’s “The Story of Art Without Men” is a compendium of female artists from the 1500s to today. The Belgian painter Caterina van Hemessen’s “Self-Portrait,” 1548.Credit...Caterina van Hemessen ...

If you haven’t encountered Katy Hessel, the feminist dynamo who’s on a mission to grant female artists their rightful place in history, now’s your moment. Hessel was spurred to action in 2015 after ...

In September, curator and art historian Katy Hessel, known for her popular Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists, published her first book, The Story of Art Without Men, in the U.K. Now, the ...

"I hope France gives him a state funeral," said the waiter from my local cafe upon hearing the news. Stéphane Hessel, who died in Paris on Tuesday night, is the kind of man who inspires such awe.

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Hessel was a lifelong friend of the French statesman Pierre Mendès-France, sadly concluding that “our great man wasn’t made for the Fifth Republic”, and a co-founder of the Club Jean-Moulin with other ...