Here are a few representative comments gleaned from shameless eavesdropping on conversations overheard while visiting the new exhibition, “Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France,” at the Virginia Museum of…

For such a self-absorbed company town, Los Angeles is surprisingly sparse on organized tributes to its raison d’etre: Besides the Hollywood Museum and the Walk of Fame stars scattered around the…

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, part of Rosicrucian Park, in San Jose, Calif. (Courtesy of Karen Gough)

Over cold French salads on a hot New York summer day, I recently sat down to lunch with Guillaume Kientz, the new director and CEO of the Hispanic Society of…

The original Gallery building, which opened in October 1913, was given in trust to the University of Rochester by Emily Sibley Watson in memory of…

Shops and diners along Route 66 conjure memories of the highway's heyday. (Courtesy of Andrey Bayda/Dreamstime.com)