Arts & Culture

The greatest work of Chinese calligraphy written in the semi-cursive style is the “Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion”, also known as “Lanting Xu” or “Lantingji Xu”. ...

NEW YORK—In these days of email and social media, when one can dash off a few lines to ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—It's the closest I've come to a "Narnia" experience, where I've walked into something utterly unexpected. ...

Type “Holy Grail” into Google and … well, you probably don’t need me to finish that sentence. The ...

Is English “weird”? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain the complex spelling rules ...

For a good number of years, I attended various poetry readings. Some were wonderful, some mediocre, and two ...

There was once a beautiful mountain called Sun Mountain that was home to an old man who planted ...

“Botanical Art Worldwide: America’s Flora” is an exhibition of 46 botanical illustrations of native American flora. Curated by ...

We have been retelling the story of the great adventurer Odysseus, as he attempts to escape from the ...

Hundreds  of feet below the surface of the earth, hundreds of years ago, the Knights Templar—a Catholic military ...

NEW YORK—I’m often surprised how small certain famous works of art actually are. Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Self-Portrait Etching ...

The qipao’s sleek and elegant form is an image widely associated with Chinese style and aesthetic. And beyond ...

When you think of inner-city teenagers, what springs to mind? For many, it’s hoodies, video games—and probably hating ...

In modern psychology, we have books like “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway,” which are international best-sellers ...

According to Emily Freeman, author of “The Next Right Thing,” it is estimated that adults make over 35,000 ...

It could be something out of “Mission Impossible.” Only under armed guard, chaperoned by a conservator, and kept in ...

Carolyn Sproule was 4 years old when she saw “The Sound of Music” and promptly decided she was ...

NEW YORK—Actress Maddie Corman had it all—a nice husband of over 20 years; a lovely home in Dobbs ...

NEW YORK—The coolest new show on Broadway in 2019 is the revival of a 1943 musical. Social media ...

Long ago, Phoenix Mountain in Shandong Province was home to a secluded spiritual follower and his guard wolf. ...

Imagine a world of perpetual feasting and drinking, where one was above the ordinary and everyday cares of ...

Have you ever worried in your student years or later in life that time may be starting to ...

Gurinder Chadha’s newest project, the stage production of Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical, will receive its North ...

China, with its 5,000 years of civilization, was once known as "Shen Zhou," which translates to The Divine Land. ...

I first came across Richard Allain's music at one of Alistair Dixon's “New Lamps for Old” concerts with his ensemble ...

NEW YORK—That each of us has a moral duty to everyone else is a message at the center ...

Our mothers have great influence on us. As our first teachers, they influence us in every way, shaping ...