Ask a certain subset of New Yorkers where they were in the final hours before Covid-19 shut down the world and a not-so-insignificant number of them will say they were doomsday prepping with martinis ...

Madeline, the classic children’s book series about a plucky little French girl’s adventures at boarding school, turns 75 this year, and the New-York Historical Society is marking the anniversary with ...

AMHERST - There are many surprises in the intensely lovely exhibit “Madeline at 75: The Art of Ludwig Bemelmans” on view through Feb. 22 at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. Here’s ...

One of New York’s favorite rooms, Bemelmans Bar, is finally back. Having shut its doors on March 16, 2020, the 74-year-old, moodily lit and whimsically illustrated jazz lounge at the Carlyle hotel on ...

Everyone knows the French schoolgirl Madeline, heroine of the popular picture books for children. Their author and illustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), was a prolific writer of a great many ...

In an old hotel in Manhattan under a marquee sign, stood dozens of 20-somethings in one straight line. The Carlyle hotel’s Bemelmans Bar — an unchanged 1940s-era lounge known for its masterpiece ...

Austrian-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898, in Merano, Austria-Hungary, now located in modern-day Italy. His father was a painter and hotel owner and his mother an amateur ...

Paris's most famous storybook schoolgirl was born in New York. Ludwig Bemelmans' "Madeline" turns 75 this year and the New York Historical Society is hosting an exhibit of the artist's sketches, ...