03/29/2020. He is dapper, beaming with the confidence of youth; he does not have the temperament for sheltering in place. It’s springtime, the year is 1624, and the 25-year-old Anthony van Dyck is sailing south, to Sicily, where he has been invited to paint...

06/14/2020. Robert Northern, a masterly French horn player who hopscotched between the worlds of jazz and classical music before embarking on a solo career in which he made music that defied categorization, died on May 31 in Washington, D.C. He was 86. His wi...

06/22/2020. Hugo Valverde didn’t think he’d make it when he auditioned for the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, the nation’s largest performing arts organization and its most prestigious opera company. He was ambitious: a French horn player...

01/07/2021. Eric Jerome Dickey, who mixed saucy, sexy and savvy into a formula that regularly landed his novels on bestseller lists and made him one of the most successful Black authors of the past quarter-century, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 59. His p...

01/18/2021. Sylvain Sylvain, a key member of the New York Dolls, the influential though short-lived proto-punk band whose outrageous shows at Max’s Kansas City and other venues paved the way for the era of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, died Wednesday at ...

02/22/2021. The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust market...

03/30/2021. An office is not just a place for people to work. It is a place to foster a sense of community, drive growth and innovation, promote and appreciate the culture. It is a place where your creativity can flourish as you interact with each other, exchang...

05/14/2022. Picking the right network to issue NFTs can be the very first move in this lucr...

06/26/2022. Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died June 16 in Sarasota, Florida. He was 91. His so...

05/08/2023. Menahem Pressler, a celebrated pianist who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and, after establishing himself in postwar America, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio, which became the world’s reigning piano-violin-cello ensemble and dazzled audiences for a ha...

09/11/2023. Marc Bohan, the longest-serving creative director at Christian Dior, who spent nearly 30 years spinning out classically attuned looks with a touch of whimsy that, however resplendent, were meant to be worn, not gazed at on mannequins or in fashion ma...