As far as discoveries go, it is pretty epic: a rare 18th century masterpiece rolled up under a couch. My colleague Christopher Knight has the story about the rare colonial painting by Mexican artist ...

Lots of people have a stray fuzz ball or two kicking around under the sofa, or perhaps a missing sock to match the lonely one at the bottom of the laundry hamper. Christina Jones Janssen had something ...

French model and actress Laetitia Casta began her career at the age of 15 after being discovered during a family holiday in Corsica. She was featured as a “Guess? Girl” in 1993 and later as a Victoria ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...