Arts & Culture

American-born Jennie Jerome Churchill and her British husband Lord Randolph would never qualify for any Best Parent of the Year award. Though Winston adored his father, Lord Randolph rarely displayed ...

Chia Chi Lin was only 2 when she first heard the violin, having grown up with many sisters ...

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is ...

Hans Baldung’s painting “The Three Ages of Woman and Death” asks where outer beauty fits in our lives. ...

Most of us know Sir Winston Churchill’s very public persona—a man of great charisma, achievements, and vision. Chartwell ...

NEW YORK—Those who remain enchanted by the notion of chivalry and the medieval rules of knighthood will find ...

"The painting is called 'The Secret' and it's showing a grandfather and his granddaughter who is whispering a ...

In a stunning, large-sized oil painting, Liu depicted Zhang Yijie's story; the brave protagonist stands unmoved in the ...

For people living in the forest of skyscrapers like Manhattan, seeing the open sky is often not always ...

Josiah Wedgwood spent his life perfecting the art of pottery, establishing 260 years ago the company that bears ...

Around 1533, the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo produced a series of drawings that he gave to his close ...

The decorations and special objects that are unique to one’s family are a key part of holiday traditions. They ...

Painting from life requires an intensity of focus, a practiced way of seeing, and—if you're working with chickens ...

In 2012, Roque suffered an accident that prevented him from making music for a year. But he found ...

Sandra Kuck's paintings are rich in detail, and take several months to complete. "Yin and Yang" took half ...

For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...

For sheer symbolism and the most glaring contrast between the evil of communism and the virtue of the ...

NEW YORK—Though billed as a musical, "The Wrong Man" features completely sung rather than spoken words. Does this ...

Until some 40 years ago, traditional Maori music was thought to be all but lost. Then Brian Flintoff, ...

For Leonardo da Vinci, painting was a central part of his life. He considered it a divine science.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...

In the past 12 years since Shen Yun Performing Arts was established, I have seen numerous performances and ...

NEW YORK—Just because something can be done, doesn’t mean it should be. Playwright Brian Friel makes clear this ...

The past centuries have shown incredible innovation, bringing technological and scientific progress that people in the early days ...

In a bustling restaurant of excited chatter and shouting toddlers, Kaidi Wu is the opposite of her surroundings. ...

One block south of New York's Central Park, a 1,000-year-old choral tradition is thriving at Saint Thomas Choir ...

Who better to paint biblical scenes than someone who had devoted her life to God. Sister Plautilla Nelli ...