Arts & Culture

How will 2021 fare in its early days? Will the early reviews be kind, or savage? And will they prove to be true? The poet Alexander Pope’s line, “Hope springs ...

Greenwich Palace—the birthplace of the Tudor monarch King Henry VIII—once stood on the site where the Old Royal ...

I’m sometimes left wondering about this thing we call faith, a thing the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard celebrated as ...

In the first half of the 15th century, Western Europe was at the tail end of the Hundred ...

PG | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 5 June 1998 (USA) I’ve never been a huge ...

This is the fourth and final article in this particular Dante series. We remember that we read Dante ...

PG | 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 December 2020 (USA) Pixar would appear to have ...

Around the age of 55, I discovered I could no longer trust myself to read certain poems to ...

Professor Zhang Kunlun is one of China’s most accomplished sculptors. As the recipient of many awards, Zhang was once ...

R | 2h | Drama, War | 6 February 1987 (USA) I used to tend bar near Bedford ...

Since 1333, a fort has stood on a hill summit in Himeji, in west Japan, where Himeji Castle ...

Around 1475, Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Botticini created a large painting titled “The Assumption of the Virgin.” The ...

A French-Swiss artist is making headlines with his project to paint the largest human chain in the world. ...

A documentary about an American war veteran and the PTSD therapy he receives from biker culture and caring ...

On Christmas break during my last year of law school in 1970, I felt pretty good, with one ...

R | 1h 52min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 2 November 2011 (France) As we head into 2021, ...

Unique 18th- and 19th-century tourist treasures, many with a twist, are currently on display in the exhibition “A ...

NEW HOPE, N.Y.—“If you sing the perfect note right in the center stage, the person at the back ...

There are historical moments when we turn our backs on the divine and suffer for it, but the ...

Here I am writing about the new year two weeks in advance of the holiday, and as is ...

How many centuries did it take to change a sigh and a groan into a song? We will ...

PARIS—Ivry Gitlis, an acclaimed violinist who played with famed conductors, rock stars, and jazz bands around the world ...

From 795 to 843, Aachen, in western Germany, was the capital of the barbarian kingdom of Francia, also ...

PG-13 | 1h 56min | Drama, History, Music | 9 November 2005 (France) Christmas is the time of ...

R | 2h 11min | Biography, Drama | 17 March 2000 (USA) “Spotlight” and “Erin Brockovich” are both ...

Last year, while thumbing through books in my local thrift shop, I stumbled upon an intriguing book called ...

PG | 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7 November 2003 (USA) Unlike the films of the ...