A reissue of “NEUF”—which championed Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, and Brassaï—shows why Robert Delpire’s midcentury publication remains an icon of the printed page.

François Bard is a contemporary French figurative painter. His monumental oil paintings usually depict dramatically lit men’s torsos with their heads and legs cropped out of the frame. “It’s important ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has expanded its collection of French art with the acquisition of the prestigious Horvitz Collection, adding more than 2,000 works from the 18th to the 20th century. The ...

The art of building purely mechanical automatons has dramatically declined with the arrival of electronics over the past century, but there are still a few craftsmen who keep the art form alive.