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In headier days, Ed Kennedy personified the hard-drinking, hard-charging war correspondent of another era. The first time his future wife saw him, he was sidled up to a hotel bar in Paris with none other than Ernest Hemi...

Scarlet, orange, yellow and brown leaves sway in a slight breeze. Dappled sunlight dances on tree trunks. Scampering squirrels crunch-crunch the carpet of leaves on a November morning. I?m walking… Click to Continu...

The power of art and creativity to illuminate the world for others is not simply a cultural benefit, but also a deeply important tool to help the authors themselves navigate their way through their own emotions, experien...

One Glendale woman discovered a rare historical treasure at a local yard sale. According to news station WHDH, when Pam Dwyer picked up a horse...

New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max never formally met enigmatic novelist David Foster Wallace. But he became fascinated with his electric works (“Infinite Jest,” “The Broom of the System,” “A ...

For 50 years, the State Department’s Office of Art in Embassies has selected and displayed American art, mostly behind locked doors in highly secure buildings. The pieces AIE purchases for embassies, and borrows f...

The largest and most dramatic paintings in “The Civil War and American Art” don’t have anything particularly warlike in them, no cannons or gun smoke or bayonets glistening in the morning sun. Rather, ...

On the stage of a spacious auditorium at the nation’s premier university for the deaf, a worker nails Styrofoam snow to the eaves of a mock-up of a 19th-century London streetscape, as actors in exaggerated masks �...

Ten years ago, the composer David Lang was a maverick outsider who was tolerated but somewhat patronized by the classical music establishment: too light, too pop-influenced, too superficial. Today, David Lang has won the...

The Lifetime Original Movie “Liz & Dick” should not be called “Liz & Dick.” It should be renamed “Lindsay Lohan and an Actor Whom You May or May Not Remember as Cooter From ‘True Blood...

On Dec. 8 and 9, the Potomack Company will auction off 250 rugs, including Aubussons and Oushaks, and the majority are expected to go for less than $1,000. See the rugs online beginning Dec. 1 or preview them at the auct...

Here at Deal Hunter, we’re constantly analyzing those little screens that separate the real world from the digital one. And like it or not, both worlds are expensive. About 122 million Americans will shop onlin...

Its main commercial attraction may be the novelty of seeing a heavily made-up Anthony Hopkins impersonate the Master of Suspense, but the heart of the new biopic “Hitchcock” isn’t Sir Alfred. It�...

Those songs. Again. Floating through the air like an inescapable airborne pathogen. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” “The Little Drummer Boy,” gle...

'Kolorit - Yellow' by Katrin Korfmann   German artist Katrin Korfmann is presenting her latest photographic work 'Kolorit' at Kai Hilgemann Gallery in Berlin....

Ruslan Khasanov's uses rainbow discs of light to create a new, hypnotic typography. In the series below, the glistening orbs cluster together to form the...

When it comes to mundane materials, there is perhaps no artist alive today who can unearth the poetic beauty of found items like Gabriel Orozco....

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There is no more denying that the Christmas season has arrived: The Carolina Ballet’s production of the classic ballet “Nutcracker” begins this weekend. Click to Continue »

The yellow canary in the window at Connersmith is cleanly sculpted, rendered by Scottish artist Kenny Hunter with the elementary lines and primary color of a cartoon. Just one thing is little off. The bird is dead. Read ...

In the midst of armed conflict, every photo tells a story. Just not the one you might think. During eight days of hostilities between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip, an argument erupted over the images that docum...

NEW YORK — That most sensational of all stage tricks — the ordinary made momentous — is being practiced for your immersive pleasure eight times a week this fall at the Public Theater, where the sterl...