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Neil Harbisson is a cyborg. Protruding from his skull is an electronic eye that allows Harbisson, a 30-year-old who was born color-blind, to listen to...

Sixty years after it's founding, "Aperture" is back with an attitude. Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit photography organization created in 1952, plans to relaunch its flagship...

When an art fair refers to itself only as "The Art Show," it certainly challenges itself to live up to the name. Yet after 25...

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Forget the "fiscal cliff" and consider instead Washington's new mot du jour, the "sequester." It's not being used to refer to what happens to members of a jury when they are set apart, or segregated, while agonizing over...

Feeling a little blue? You're not alone. From the palest chambray to inky midnight, blue is asserting itself in the home and on fashion runways.

If you've ever picked up a magazine or a newspaper filled with photos from celebrity galas or film premieres, chances are you've noticed the photo...

Some music needs to be heard in concert to be fully appreciated. No amount of spin doctoring by journalists or peer pressure from fanatical fans can justify an act unless one catches said act live.

March madness came early as the Washington Ballet whirled through George Balanchine's tribute to John Philip Sousa this weekend. "Stars and Stripes" turns the buoyancy of Sousa marches and the crisp rhythms of military d...

It's Oscar weekend, and in the desperate journalistic hunt for meaning in self-promoting spectacles - the Academy Awards, the Superbowl, political conventions - best-picture nominees...

El Museo del Barrio, a struggling museum located in New York's most storied Latino community, Spanish Harlem, is in the middle of an identity crisis:...

Those who watch "Downton Abbey" most likely have an appreciation for The Dowager Countess' zingers and sharp wit. She has a way of making those...

When it comes to child prodigies, we've gushed over our fair share of young painters, violinists and pianists, but a six-year-old conductor is a truly...

Standing before 400 adoring fans, Markus Zusak remembered when his books couldn't attract any interest at all. In fact, the Australian bestseller said nobody turned up for his first reading in a library near his home. "B...

Winter is coming and finally, so is "Game of Thrones" Season 3, which premieres March 31 at 9 p.m. EST on HBO. As the hour...

Anna Karenina, one of last year's most talked-about productions, is a product of a longstanding friendship between a director and his muse. The relationship between Knightley and Wright harks back to that 2005 adaptation...

Workshops at JC Raulston Arboretum teach gardeners the secrets to propagating plants.

We forget that black youth have important ideas to offer during critical discussions about issues directly affecting their lives. Black youth voices are routinely rendered invisible. It's a dilemma that the documentary W...

I'm in the market for a new kitchen faucet and have discovered touchless technology, which is rather new for home use. If you've been to any new hotel or restaurant,

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You're never going to win an Oscar. But whether you're conscious of it or not, you've probably already given an Oscar speech. They may be the most secretly influential forms of American rhetoric. The rhythms and tropes o...