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W.O.F. Vertical #1 2011. 13 5/8 x 10 5/8Gunpowder generated silver gelatin print....

F. Scott Hess, Self-Portrait with Upturned Collar, 2011, oil on aluminum panel, 24 × 18 inches, Private Collection. I painted this while preparing a lecture...

To younger writers who are missing the boat, I want to say: Read Roth. Learn from his oeuvre and from his life, and from how the two have intersected. Learn how a writer can keep pace with America and tell its story as w...

Tonight's White House Passover dinner will have a new dish at the table: Spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed that the Obamas will use the silver Seder plate that Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...

In Shadow of No Towers, my latest symphony, asks why, in our bickering, so much of the world's paranoid discourse has to do with domination, misunderstanding and the gross exaggeration of our differences at the expense o...

After living in New York for more than four years, Nathan Pyle has acquired quite a bit of knowledge about how to live and work...

For Passover this year, Rizzoli has just released The Bronfman Haggadah, written by the businessman, philanthropist and Jewish community leader Edgar Bronfman Sr., illustrated by artist Jan Aronson, who is also Bronfman'...

For the project "Rap Quotes," Jay Shells put his graphic design skills to use with a series of bright red signs emblazoned with lyrics from...

He was a shy West Coast transplant alone in the big city. But equipped with his iPhone camera and a healthy dose of snark, all...

-- The Strokes, "Comedown Machine" (RCA) The Strokes spent the past six years burning through all the leeway earned with once being declared saviors...

The average whoosh doesn’t get much respect. The whooshing sound of a washing machine in motion — that’s banal. A just-cleaned dish towel whooshing onto the floor — that’s annoying. And...

I learned how to read and write music before I learned to read and write English. You might be wondering, why? Were his parents task masters? Was he a child prodigy? Was he forced to learn this? No, no and no. Why then?

Tilda Swinton slept in a box at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this weekend and the Internet was atwitter with speculation. The...

NEW YORK — The Video Music Awards are taking a road trip to Brooklyn. MTV's showcase awards show is traditionally held in Los Angeles or...

The start of spring is just the time to incorporate seasonal ingredients into your diet.

Also in The Washington Post: It might be the biggest controversy in rich-people Washington in years: Wayne Reynolds thinks he has a plan to save the Corcoran, but gallery folks aren't interested. So now he's waging a bra...

The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. By ANDY GREENE Thirty years ago tonight, the world first saw Michael Jackson moonwalk. The big moment...

"Degrassi" stars Adamo Ruggiero and Ben Lewis are starring in a new comedy web series called "Boystown" along with Richard Lee and Brett Donahue. The...

Photographic images leave their mark on the way we understand our world, and anything that helps that understanding is vital to our well-being. War Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, at the Annenber...

-- Michelle Obama dining at Birch & Barley in Logan Circle Sunday evening. Arrived with two other women around 6 p.m., stayed for about three hours in the semi-private dining room overlooking the open kitchen, so our wit...

Calling all burners! The participating projects of the collaborative exhibition of installations from around the globe known as C.O.R.E., or the "Circle of Regional Effigies,"...

The last episode of "The Following" (Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox) saw Nico Tortorella's Jacob finally take a life -- but it cost...