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Ladies and gentlemen of the fair city of St. Francis, mark thy calendars. Outside Lands is BACK for its sixth consecutive year, and it will...

POW! Could the future of journalism lie in its looking and reading more like a comic book? If you're Joyce Rice and Erin Polgreen, the...

In 1939, Ansel Adams created a famous image using overexposure solarization. Today, a new generation of photographers are adding to this tiny subgenre, drawing on...

If the 1920s and 30s represent the true arrival of photography as an artist medium, they also represent a crucial stage in women's freedom. Which...

NEW YORK -- The late "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens...

WASHINGTON -- "Hallelujah" will ring through the Washington National Cathedral this weekend. Handel's masterpiece "Messiah" will be led by Canon Michael McCarthy for the ninth...

Life+Times, Jay-Z's culture website, posted a 24-minute documentary about the rise of the Barclays Center. The video takes viewers behind the scenes of his run...

University of Illinois Chicago political scientist Kelly LeRoux and co-author Anna Bernadska recently published a study that shows a positive correlation between participation in the arts and engagement with civil societ...

Lisa Breslow At Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, painter Lisa Breslow is currently exhibiting a dozen paintings of New York City. Breslow's panels, which favor atmosphere over specificity, are about the artist's genuine affecti...

When it comes to map collecting, I am the epitome of an obsessive-compulsive, borderline maniacal fanatic in every respect.

The Gift is created by a volunteer cast and crew. Costumes have been gathered, and kept, sets been added to over the years. This is perhaps the greatest gift of theater I have ever witnessed. But how does it work?

As I sat down to watch South Coast Rep's fine production of "A Christmas Carol," it occurred to me that there are twelve days of Christmas and twelve steps in a recovery program. What better framework, then, with which t...

The uniquely exciting world of tap dancing has still never been presented as a full-evening program at any of the national cultural center's principle venues, but that's about to change.

What do you know about burlesque? The centuries-old stylish striptease is in the thick of a barreling revival that plenty of people know almost nothing...

The message theatergoers sent in 2012 is that if you get a big-name star to headline a play they know and love then they will fill the seats.

As for Katie Holmes, she has moved on from tabloid fodder and former wife of a superstar. She can command the stage and -- even more importantly -- command her own life. I speak for many who say it's good to have her bac...

As a longtime reader and admirer of Slate, I've often lamented the fact that there's pretty much zero visual art content on the site (although,...

YANGON, Myanmar -- Graffiti artists in Myanmar are unhappy with a new ban on their handiwork in the country's biggest city, but expect many to...

Since Lindsay Lohan was arrested for the 23rd time last week, we've seen more than our fair share of insulting tweets, memes and jabs. Somewhere...

LENS, France -- It's an impoverished coal-mining town in northern France that was razed by two world wars and now faces soaring unemployment. Lens is...

The latest installment of "Star Wars" rumors concern one Mr. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ewan McGregor, who played a young Kenobi in "Star Wars: Episode I -...

Harold Pinter nearly killed me. Not with a knife, a bullet, or a karate chop, but with that most deadly of all weapons, a lofty sneer.