HK Art & Culture

Kate McGarry may have moved from New York to North Carolina but she began her set at Jazz Standard with a lithe rendition of the New York-themed "59th Street Bridge ...

New York-based Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra, which blends the spirit of Chinese music with the power of a ...

Composer William Vollinger writes deeply humane works: Hearing his song for soprano and clarinet, "The Child in the ...

MIDDLETOWN—Move over, J.K. Rowling, a new fantasy series is on the way. Raymond Depew has completed four novellas ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East.

The Sykes-Picot accord was conceived at a high point in Britain and France's imperial power. Hammered out in ...

Over five months after Shen Yun Performing Arts set out on its 10th annual world tour with an ...

For a long time, Patricia Gucci had wanted to tell the world about her father, Aldo Gucci—the man ...

Whether you like 19th century painting or not, it's hard to ignore the Pre-Raphaelites, and it's even harder ...

From the legendary Tower of Babel to the iconic Burj Khalifa, humans have always aspired to build to ...

Lewis Hine (1874-1940) worked as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. Between 1908 and 1924 ...

NEW YORK—It was the last day of 2015 and Sophie Okonedo was getting ready to go out and ...

One of the most important numbers in maths might today be named after the Greek letter π or ...

At 1,000 years, the search for the location of Ashkenaz—thought to be the birthplace of Ashkanazic Jews and ...

NEW YORK—"In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, and ...

When she paints, Sally Fama Cochrane dives into the chasm between invisible and visible worlds—between the inside and ...

As the most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas, and perhaps the world, the International ARC (Art Renewal ...

TORONTO—Opera is larger than life, combining words and music to produce drama that may be at once foreign ...

TORONTO—Most people familiar with Rossini are familiar with his comedies, such as his greatest hit "The Barber of ...

Michael Schulman shares delightfully entertaining stories surrounding Meryl Streep's early rise to stardom in "Her Again." The book ...

Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason... The interpretation is unfortunately ...

MONTREAL, Canada—Joann Pham was lucky enough to be visiting Montreal from the U.S. when Shen Yun Performing Arts ...

When the Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor reads his books aloud he almost sings them. Like his sister, the ...

MISSISSAUGA, Canada—Musicians Grant Slater and Sunshine Parry drove over an hour and a half from Barrie to catch ...

A consortium led by the property company New World Development began a large-scale acquisition of the North Point ...

Costume designer Rachel Healy believes that the classic arts—ballet, classical music, theater, literature, and the fine arts—are a ...

This ancient song has been lost since the 11th century but is now available for us to listen to thanks ...