Arts & Culture

Shen Yun Performing Arts famously uses a unique ensemble, blending sounds and instruments of the East and the West, but what truly makes the music special, says conductor Chen Ying, ...

From the late 19th century through to around the 1940s, everyday shopkeepers across England advertised their businesses on ...

NEW YORK—The sin of pride leads to more than a few comeuppances in Dion Boucicault's 19th-century farce "London ...

FLORENCE, Italy—The Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria Carmine in Florence is where you’ll find one of the most ...

Born in 1874 in England, as an adult he stood 6 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed close ...

“When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.” That proverb, purportedly from Africa, contains a ...

Life can be hard. When faced with fear, crisis, and hardship, some Buddhists call out to Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara ...

It would be hard to imagine a more fitting name for what would be required of that undisciplined ...

Conservative philosopher and public commentator Roger Scruton has died of cancer at the age of 75, according to ...

When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my family was visiting my mom’s parents, who operated ...

NEW YORK—Few shows start off with as much promise as the new off-Broadway musical "Sing Street," at New ...

With his men’s enlistments expiring in one week, Washington had no choice but to risk everything on a ...

NEW YORK—The cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory presently houses "Judgment Day," written by ...

The arts are a living history. More than that, they form the tangible embodiment of a culture, and ...

Socialism in America is on the rise. A recent Gallup poll found that 45 percent of young American ...

The student of Greek mythology is often struck by the fact that some gods and goddesses have extensive ...

There it sits on a bookshelf in the den, that 150-year-old King James Bible once owned by your ...

NEW YORK—Len Cariou gives a virtuoso performance as a man determined to live his life on his own ...

NEW YORK—The New Year is synonymous with new beginnings, resolutions, and growth. You look to your past to ...

NEW YORK—Dancing wasn’t exactly at the top of Monty Mou’s agenda when he first started. It was his ...

2020. Now there’s a number with some heft to it. It offers gravitas, sounding like an Army tank or ...

While audiences in upstate New York were preparing to watch a classical Chinese dance performance by New York-based ...

In the not too distant past, the Chinese freely worshiped their ancestors and deities within their own homes. ...

NEW YORK—This time of year always reminds me of the divine. With Christ’s birthday being at the center ...

Public officials in the South American country have sent letters and issued proclamations for Shen Yun's upcoming performances ...

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—Angela Xiao is what you’d call gifted. Difficult dance moves and elaborate new sequences come easily to ...

PARIS—The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there's a "50 ...