World Culture

This week, pianists came together for NTD's 5th International Piano Competition, with 15 contestants proceeding to the semi-final. Below is a list of the semi-finalists. Jiawei Lyu Fagan Nicolas Giacomelli ...

Pianists from all around the world have come to New York for the 2019 NTD 5th International Piano ...

Everyone has probably heard of Socrates and will know that he was a great philosopher in ancient Greece. ...

Aldo Martinek is convinced he has a priceless Leonardo da Vinci painting on his hands, but he’s having ...

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

NEW YORK—I’m glad I had the chance to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “The World Between ...

“It belongs in a museum.” With these words, Indiana Jones, the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist, articulated an association between ...

American donors appear to be leading part of the fundraising drive to repair the fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral, ...

Practitioners of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, from various countries gathered in the center of Kyiv, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio---People from all backgrounds came to the 25th Asian Festival to experience a variety of Asian cultures. ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—It's the closest I've come to a "Narnia" experience, where I've walked into something utterly unexpected. ...

Is English “weird”? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain the complex spelling rules ...

Have you ever worried in your student years or later in life that time may be starting to ...

Culture plays a big role in what we feel, how we identify these feelings, and what we do to deal ...

Bonsai is distinct from other visual arts in that its creative medium—a tree—is alive. Unlike a painting or ...

We’ve seen it all in documentaries and dramas. The Viking Age begins as hordes of Vikings leap ashore ...

At first glance, the archaeological site of Pompeii seems frozen just moments after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Yet time ...

People walking outside the Louvre museum in Paris have destroyed a major French artwork, on March 30. A ...

TORONTO—Anyone who has experienced an artistic masterpiece, whether it be a painting, a musical composition, literature, or another ...

Remember watching Shen Yun and being transported to the expansive Mongolian grasslands on horseback? Or the delicate scenes ...

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

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

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

Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, and parts of Syria, Iran, and Turkey, gave us what ...

The face is there and then it’s gone. The imploring eyes of a beauty mysteriously hide and threaten ...