09/29/2012. DRESDEN.- For more than five decades he was a key figure on the European art scene, and anyone who is interested in artists such as Kirchner, Kandinsky or Klee is bound to come across his name: Will Grohmann (1887–1968), one of the most i...

10/05/2013. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is generally accepted as the greatest artist that the Netherlands has ever produced. In addition to his many paintings, he also made hundreds of drawings and etchings. His mastery in all these areas is undisputed. Alrea...

01/24/2021. From a window in his Hell’s Kitchen apartment, theater director Alex Timbers can see the Moorish arcade adorning Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theater. For years, Timbers dreamed of working in the century-old house, and in the summer of 2019, he...

08/08/2021. Perched at 8,900 feet in the San Juan Mountains, five hours from the nearest major airport and near the Rio Grande headwaters, Creede is a town of around 350 full-time residents, with one grocery store, one gas station and a fast-rushing flume. A tra...

12/15/2021. The season of festivities is upon us, soon there will be Christmas and new year events, and you know what that means; it means there are going to be a lot of parties, lazy days, over-drinking, plus eating resulting in neglected fitness regimes. And t...

06/24/2022. James Rado, who jolted Broadway into the Age of Aquarius as a co-creator of “Hair,” the show, billed as an “American tribal love-rock musical,” that transfigured musical theater tradition with radical ’60s iconoclasm and rock...

08/25/2022. With the increasing work-from-home positions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, it's no surprise that there's been a massive rise in new pets. All that time at home can get lonely, so it only makes sense to bring home a furry friend to break up...

01/22/2023. Chorley’s auctioneers announced that it will offer the private collection of BBC Antiques Roadshow’s long-serving expert, Henry Sandon (MBE), known for his passion for porcelain and po...

03/23/2023. Shane McAnally’s boffo songwriting career got off to a slow start, but by 2013 he and his frequent writing partner Brandy Clark were finally having success. The Band Perry’s “Better Dig Two” and Miranda Lambert’s “Mama&#...

04/21/2023. The first shards of pottery arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978, a purchase from a Swiss dealer. A second handful was bought from a Los Angeles gallery a year later. These ceramic tidbits — part of the hodgepodge of ancient frag...

04/25/2023. The neon image of a louche Lady Justice, in an electric-blue robe and a hot-pink mask, greets the audience at the Golden Theatre as if the place were a strip joint for lawyers. In a way, it is, at least while “Prima Facie,” which opened ...

04/26/2023. Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side...

12/22/2023. Scientists have long wondered whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a ticking time bomb in terms of sea level rise. New evidence from the DNA of a small octopus that lives in the Southern Ocean suggests that the ice sheet is indeed at risk of colla...

12/24/2023. The museum is displaying a set of personal effects, printed materials, notebooks and sketchbooks, along with two oil paintings on cardboard and letters signed by the painter, photographer and...

02/14/2024. For romantics looking to display their passion and devotion, the Love Bank in Slovakia has plenty of room in its Love Vault where 7,000 people have already deposited their keepsakes and symbols of affection, whether reciprocated or unrequited. But...