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Co-authored by Theodora Karamanlis Image by Disney For thousands of years, what many failed to perceive of their ever-changing surroundings, artists found alternate ways to express through new and radical techniques. The...

Hamdy Reda: Untitled Photograph (Pyramids) 1. At the age of only 35, Egyptian artist Hamdy Reda is a legend in Cairo's art world, not just for his artwork -- photographs of Egyptian people and places that capture the per...

A new Madonna album, a fresh reminder that we're all going to die. That probably isn't the take-away the pop matriarch was aiming for with her 13th -- and 13th-best -- studio album, "Rebel Heart." But as time continues t...

Filmmakers love to throw a spotlight on their favorite bands by giving musicians prime real estate in their movies’ most memorable scenes. Take Zach Braff shamelessly deploying a Shins lullaby to woo Natalie Portman in...

When you're decorating your bedroom, it just comes naturally to add a headboard to your wish list, right? Why not explore what your room could look like without a headboard? Whether you're renting, on a budget, or just w...

The Roaring 20s: that's when engineers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen started their audiovisual company. The Copenhagen-based brand celebrates their 90 years with the Love Affair Collection, six of their luxe products in s...

All of us 70s and 80s babies probably in some way or another have seen the movie Flashdance. Even if you haven't, there is probably slim chance you never at least seen that iconic dance scene where the water pours down o...

In June of 2009, John Jennings and Damian Duffy hosted an art exhibition called Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics at the Krannert Art Museum. The show focused on work by women and minority artis...

During the month of March, we're gathering some of our best problem solvers together into master "Home Remedies" posts to help you make your home healthier, solving one problem at a time. Today, the first aid kit is both...

Once again, Sean Penn isn’t apologizing for his controversial comment at the Academy Awards. You know, when he announced the winner for best picture by saying, “Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?” He and ...

In 2010, Eric Owens sang Alberich in the Met's "Das Rheingold" and leapt to a new level of international attention -- and expectation. That expectation, he said in an interview last year, has sometimes been a little hard...

Recently, I visited New York to see an exhibition of Natvar Bhavsar's magnificent paintings at the Tower49 Gallery. Natu's wife, Janet, and I had taught art together in suburban Philadelphia when I first met Natu. The en...

Former president Bill Clinton might be a granddad, but he still hangs out with rock stars -- well, at least when they're on discussion panels together. Clinton shared a stage -- and posed for a picture -- with members of...

The devastating snowstorms of 2010 deprived Washington of one concert in Till Fellner's complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Snow fell again this week, but for his latest recital here, presented by the Embassy Se...

The Portuguese company Mundo Perfeito assumes theatergoers are educated types. Making a U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center, as part of the Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix festival, the troupe presents a double bill that b...

The gestures of one dancer performing in Rockville may be minuscule when compared with a president singing "We Shall Overcome" on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., but Michelle Dorrance made a crowd tear up Saturday b...

If you ever find yourself getting tired of stark, designy interiors in unforgiving palettes of black and white, you're in luck. Color is back in a big way, and nowhere is that more apparent than in these nine exciting (a...

As a real estate broker, Will Sharon logs a lot of hours roaming around New York. He started snapping photos of the city's more interesting building numbers and began sharing them on Instagram.

Such a disappointment. An enticing program that wasn't performed well enough. This was the National Symphony Orchestra's concert Friday night, part of the Kennedy Center's "Iberian Suite" festival. It offered Spain- and ...

The Curtis Chamber Orchestra dished out a big program for its appearance at the Library of Congress on Saturday, but the main event (and what packed the house) was the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Viola Concerto, ...

If there's one thing we know for certain about Hillary Clinton, it's that:She's running for president.What her e-mails say

If there’s one thing we know for certain about Hillary Clinton, it’s that: She’s running for president. What her e-mails say The quantity of her pantsuit collection She knows how to laugh at herself. Or at least, t...