Arts & Culture

“Bursting with celebration” is how Ottawa Chamberfest describes its 2019 lineup, featuring unique collaborations, international artists, and renowned works from Bach to the Beatles. The award-winning festival and tourist attraction’s ...

PRAGUE—One day, an artist from central Europe heard a news story about Chinese prisoners of conscience being used ...

The "Standards for Being a Good Student and Child" (Di Zi Gui) is a traditional Chinese textbook for ...

NEW YORK—One of the greatest joys of fantasy is the escape it brings from the everyday world. But when ...

Henry Purcell's Baroque masterpiece "Dido and Aeneas" is one of the most famous English operas. The last aria, ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's fantastical world of Middle-earth may be make-believe, but for Tolkien it had a real ...

If you have a family member diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common type of dementia, ...

A World of Tradition “Mongolian Bowls,” a Shen Yun dance performed in 2017, shows the spirit of hospitality ...

Helen Valentine, a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares how and why the ...

The Civil War broke  out shortly after President Abraham Lincoln became the United States’ 16th president. The following ...

NEW YORK—There is no way to prepare for dealing with death, as inevitable or unexpected as it might ...

A sadly common refrain about young people today is that they are coddled, entitled, self-absorbed, and tech-addicted. But as ...

"The Water Margin," also known in English as "Outlaws of the Marsh" or "All Men Are Brothers," is ...

It's imperative for children to receive  a sound education, and more importantly, a moral compass to guide them ...

I’d been reading Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” to my 10-year-old daughter. I admit I was immediately motivated by my ...

Laozi, the founder of Taoism, had a childhood teacher named Chang Cong, who carefully taught him the complicated ...

NEW YORK—Set in Dublin in 1920 during the height of the Irish War of Independence between the British ...

Scientists working in Blombos Cave in South Africa’s southern Cape region have made a discovery that changes our understanding ...

Parents don’t seek anything in return for raising their children—it’s all about unconditional love. So if your mom ...

Fairly new as far as major classical music competitions go, the New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television International Piano ...

Everyone likes a good story, but what makes a story a true gem? Journey to the West is ...

A Magnificat is a canticle, a Latin word that means "magnify," and in this context "My soul magnifies ...

Among the plays of the Yuan Dynasty, there was one called “The Dream of Bao Gong Examining the ...

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

There are a lot of people out there in the world who have it tough. What's admirable about ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes this is true. A picture comes in handy ...

Majestic, self-disciplined, and stunningly refined—Piotr Huang’s dancing leaves audiences breathless. Even when performing incredibly challenging leaps and flips, ...