Arts & Culture

NEW YORK—I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum’s ongoing exhibition “In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces.”  As I was just about to leave, a  woman grabbed my attention.  She is a deity, in fact. Her name is ...

For over three decades, Reverend F. Washington Jarvis served as headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest ...

WINCHESTER, England—When Jane Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 in Hampshire, England, the inscription on her ...

"I like ... taking something that hasn't worked for 150 years and bringing it back to life," says ...

We left Odysseus at type Three on the Enneagram almost totally destroyed. His ship and crew were completely ...

Nestled near the Northern Japanese Alps of Gifu prefecture, Hida Takayama (known locally as Hida) is one of ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? It ...

Even today, 50 years later, the monumental achievement makes the heart beat faster.

Loyal and devout, the Polish queen of France, Marie Leszczynska (1703–1768), was the longest reigning queen at Versailles, spending ...

Some writers and teachers among us, praise be to all of them, are obsessed with writing, grammar, syntax, ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ...” Charles Dickens wrote those lines ...

NEW YORK—A growing movement is calling for the return of meter and rhyme in poetry in a bid ...

Words of Wisdom aims to highlight important morals, which we feel our readers will benefit from reading. We ...

With its 843 acres, New York City's Central Park has long been a mecca for those seeking a ...

SPRING GREEN, Wis.—“Twelfth Night, or What You Will” has one of the funniest scenes in all of Shakespeare’s ...

The performance has come to an end; the musicians’ bows remain fixed in the air as their last ...

If just one work by Leonardo da Vinci sings for me the word genius—genius, that is, in the ...

There is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings ...

Sharon Isbin will perform, among others, the Boccherini Quintet No. 4 with the Calidore String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—For nearly 4o years, children’s book illustrator and oral storyteller Lyn Kriegler has worked with some ...

Larry Clowers came to play Ulysses S. Grant practically by accident—or perhaps fate.

There's a shared belief in many cultures, from ancient Europe to China, that a person's fortunes and misfortunes ...

The Orlandos' intimate study of the Lees as human beings has given them a nuanced view and a ...

It’s 399 B.C. Having been judged and condemned to death, Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, reflects on his ...

NEW YORK—One-person shows are generally not my cup of tea, but David Cale's autobiographical musical "We're Only Alive ...

Finding a spouse has long been among the most commonplace activities and yet, at the same time, shrouded ...

NEW YORK—The need for freedom and sanctuary quickly becomes a running theme in David Cale's extremely personal one-person ...