World Culture

A British national treasure is revealing more of itself. The hallowed ground of Westminster Abbey holds a unique place in British history, where coronations occur and the fallen and the ...

NEW YORK—The face of the first president of the United States is well imprinted on our minds. We ...

Meet Mariano Palencia Crespo of MPC Bespoke, one of London’s bespoke bootmakers. Crespo shares how he traveled the ...

Here, Buck Blanchard from Birmingham, Minnesota, shares his story: My precious possession is a circa 1912 Conley Junior ...

The new film “A Quiet Place” is an edge-of-your-seat tale about a family struggling to avoid being heard ...

Exploring "Visitors to Versailles" at The Met, an assembled microcosm of the world’s largest royal domain with an ...

In the spring of the 13th year of the Tianbao period (circa A.D. 754) of the Tang Dynasty, ...

NEW YORK—She brought Michelangelo to the center stage of arts and culture for 91 days with the “Michelangelo: ...

In 1797, at the dawn of the industrial age, Goethe wrote “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a poem about a ...

Zheng Banqiao, a famous artist of China’s Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), was well known for his paintings of bamboo. ...

The bird-and-flower paintings of ancient China shine a light on the breadth of traditional Chinese culture and philosophy. ...

The Oselvar boat was selected in 2016 for inscription on UNESCO's “Register of Good Safeguarding Practices,” part of ...

UNESCO lists seven cultural practices still playing a part in today’s Italy, including falconry and the Mediterranean Diet, ...

The quintessential self-made man Benjamin Franklin had one of the most remarkable lives in recorded history. He went ...

Ancient Greece has intrigued archaeologists and scholars for more than a thousand years. UNESCO has listed four surviving ...

When the Canadian Museum of History began planning a new exhibition on the Franklin expedition now showing in ...

Cursive writing has come under attack in recent years for being old-fashioned, irrelevant, and unnecessary. Many schools have ...

I watched my 4-year-old son sing "O Canada" at his preschool graduation last week. He probably only knew ...

There isn't much that the Vatican in Rome and the Oculus at the Westfield World Trade Center in New ...

TALLINN, Estonia—There is no denying it: Estonians love singing. Starting June 30, the country will see nearly 35,000 ...

Montreal's contemporary art museum will be hosting an exhibit later this year devoted to the life and work ...

As I ambled through the ancient Gyeongbokgung Palace, the scent of jasmine flowers filled the air, the sun ...

TALLINN, Estonia—He was one of thousands of courageous youth who gathered back in 1987 at Raekoja Plats, the town square of Estonia's capital, ...

If Netflix's most-watched shows are any indication of the future of humanity, we could be in trouble. From ...

Latvia, with Estonia in the North, Lithuania in the South, and the Baltic Sea with its Gulf of ...

KIEV, Ukraine—The house was almost sold out, with many families with small children in attendance—more than one would ...

Suicide is the most untimely and disturbing of endings. Even the gravity of murder can pale in comparison ...