These women checked into the Barbizon Hotel and—even though it technically no longer exists—they never left. New York City once had more than a hundred residential hotels, places like the ...

The Barbizon offered Plath and women like her a sanctuary in a bustling, sometimes overwhelming city, even as it also gave them a taste of an independent life. In an era when opportunities for wom ...

Located at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue, the Barbizon Hotel housed 720 single-occupancy rooms in its 20th-century heyday. It's now a condo building. NY Post composite Evelyn Echols always ...

Among the handful of iconic hotels closely entwined with New York’s cultural history, the Barbizon is perhaps less widely known than the Plaza, Algonquin or Waldorf Astoria. But as Paulina Bren ...

It all began while I was living at The Barbizon Hotel for Women in New York City. Men weren't permitted anywhere in the hotel except the lobby. So when my dates would arrive to pick me up ...

(photo credit: Asya Lukin) Asya Lukin burst onto the Israeli art scene over 10 years ago riding the wave of the New Barbizon group: five women from the former Soviet Union who came of age as ...

From Monet and Van Gogh to Picasso and Matisse, masterpieces of this genre highlight its continued influence on the Asian art scene, Zhang Kun reports.