10/07/2019. Since the early 1900’s modern ceramics produced in various Dutch and even German cities were popularly called ‘Delft Blue.’ These objects continued the successful tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth-century products from the city o...

06/11/2021. Monks in blue-grey habits lift their hands in supplication before breaking into a chant accompanied by the singsong twang of the kora, a traditional West African harp. It is mid-afternoon prayer in the abbey of Keur Moussa, just east of Senegal's ...

06/28/2021. Growing up in California, Manpreet Toor remembers being exposed to bhangra — a lively Punjabi dance genre that is performed widely in the Indian diaspora — in her parents’ garage. “In Punjabi households, back in the day, we used t...

09/25/2021. Psychologists call it the “mere exposure effect”: Humans like what they already know, whether people, places, products — or works of art. There was certainly a reassuring familiarity about most of the works on display at the 51st ed...

12/11/2021. Barry Harris, a pianist and educator who was the resident scholar of the bebop movement — and ultimately, one of its last original ambassadors — died Wednesday in North Bergen, New Jersey. He was 91. His death, in a hospital, was caused ...

01/13/2022. Michael Lang, one of the creators of the Woodstock festival, which drew more than 400,000 people to an upstate New York farm in 1969 for a weekend of “peace and music” — plus plenty of drugs, skinny-dipping, mud-soaked revelry and high...

02/03/2022. Even during his lifetime, there was something unexplainable about J Dilla, the Detroit-born hip-hop producer and emcee. He was an open secret, an under-acknowledged force shifting and shaping modern music. Followers spoke of him reverentially and wit...

06/08/2022. The future is looking bright for award-winning chef Thibault Sombardier. Last year, under financial pressure from successive coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on hospitality businesses, the owners of Antoine restaurant on the Right Bank —...

09/20/2022. “The Phantom of the Opera” has been running on Broadway longer than many of the industry’s hoofers have been alive. But Friday, the show announced it will close Feb. 18, a few weeks after celebrating its 35th anniversary. The musica...

10/22/2022. Paris+, the eagerly awaited, if awkwardly titled, latest addition to the Art Basel international fair stable opened to VIP visitors in the French capital Wednesday. For almost a half-century, the venerable Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain...

11/20/2022. Keith Levene, a founding member of the seminal British bands the Clash and Public Image Ltd. whose slashing yet melodic fretwork helped define the sound of post-punk guitar, died Nov. 11 at his home in Norfolk, England. He was 65. His sister Jill ...

12/14/2022. Blockbuster Museum Show Breaks Attendance Records . . . Ben Mankiewicz, the primetime host of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), greeted hundreds of fans at the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s nationall...

05/10/2024. Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken tourists and students. Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. When Milan’s authorities embarked ye...

08/29/2024. While collectibles can take numerous forms, you can hardly come across something more soul-uplifting to sort through and invest in than art pieces. When they’re quality, rare, and in demand, artwork can rise in value immensely, even if an item m...

09/11/2024. Will Jennings, an English professor turned lyricist whose 1998 Academy Award for “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme song from the movie “Titanic,” capped a long career writing hits for musicians like Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton and ...