Life Style News

In the arts world, they call her "the dancing philanthropist." And now, with her latest and largest endowment to date, Glorya Kaufman has a new...

The problem we all face when encountering a new work of art, is one of comprehension. Anyone can find themselves at something of a loss when facing a painting or sculpture that is fresh out of an artist's studio.

To exhibit demands a bold and exhaustive effort, far away from the security of the studio. An artist must work harder, more aggressively and creatively than the gallery to market and publicize properly. At the end of the...

-- Christina Aguilera, "Lotus" (RCA Records) Christina Aguilera is easily one of contemporary music's best voices. She's got pipes that music-lovers need to hear...

NEW YORK — Kelli O'Hara will be taking a break from singing Gershwin songs on Broadway early next year – to sing Rodgers & Hammerstein...

Although much of his career is defined by television comedy, Norman Lear does not come off as a jokester. He is a careful listener, and when he speaks he uses precise gestures that complement his complete-sentence style ...

Sweet Dreams is a documentary that chronicles how a group of Rwandan women survived destruction and mass murder, and then embarked on the tenuous path of healing.

LONDON -- Two men have pleaded guilty in a British court to stealing a bronze Henry Moore sculpture worth up to 500,000 pounds ($793,800). "The...

PHOENIX -- The real estate broker marketing a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Phoenix home that had been slated for demolition says a purchase agreement for the...

Two weeks ago, I found myself in a little over three feet of rising water, fighting off the current's attempts to tug me under, all for a photo.

What do you do when you're living in a small studio apartment, but don't want people to be able to see your bed immediately upon walking in the door? Apartment Therapy reader Christina was faced with this particular dile...

In a conversation with Steven Strogatz, we talked about ways that math and art are alike, and how adopting the right mindset can lead to breakthroughs in creativity: "We're all trying to express ourselves. We're also str...

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." The sentiment comes courtesy of The Godfather, but it applies to the moving Broadway revival of The Heiress at the Walter Kerr.

The mention of their names is sometimes met with uncertainty, even though their photographs are not. I realized that many people know the pictures, but not the names, or, in some case, the reverse.

The most vivid reporting from Pancevo during the NATO bombing came from a cartoonist publishing under the pen name of Aleksandar Zograf. His weekly dispatches, Regards From Serbia, appeared in various magazines and websi...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Three men posing as an art teacher and two students stole paintings worth about $2 million by some of South Africa's most celebrated artists off the walls of the Pretoria Art Museum in a brazen d...

Charlie weighs in at somewhere between 550 and 600 pounds and conducts his online course in literary criticism and composition lying on his besieged sofa like an Idaho-Mormon-country beached behemoth.

It has been years since Parker Posey has had a role as meaty and perfect for her as Susan Felders in Michael Walker's Price Check.

View of Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre during a storm on 2 November, 2012 - A collaboration between Henning Larsen Architects and...

Susan Lucci will return with more stories of love gone wrong when "Deadly Affairs" comes back with new episodes in the summer of 2013. “I...

I've reported on Russian art from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, but a recent invitation to Ulyanovsk took me by surprise. It came from the Plastov Awards, which I had never heard of. I didn't know much about Ulyanovsk eith...

Stephen Colbert is famous for sticking to his "Colbert character", which he initially honed as a correspondent on "The Daily Show". But nobody's perfect... delightfully...