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In 1941, at the age of 19, Lucian Freud wrote a letter to his friend, poet and critic Stephen Spender. At the time, Freud was studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex, on his way to be...

NBA fans might not know Andrew Bernstein's name, but they almost certainly know his work. The longest tenured photographer in the NBA, Bernstein is responsible for a staggering number of the most iconic photos in basketb...

I've never been a big fan of war porn. I tend to avoid films that focus on bombing, gore and a delusional creed of machismo because, in the end, they're all about destruction. In a fascinating profile of 98-year-old Kana...

When that video of a Texas police officer taking down a bikini-clad black teen and drawing his gun on other unarmed teens at a pool party surfaced, it again focused debate on police use of force.We talked too about the l...

Think of it as speed dating for the intelligentsia. The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress celebrated its 15th anniversary Thursday with a series of "Lightning Conversations" that featured almost 70 scholars...

Think of it as speed dating for the intelligentsia.The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress celebrated its 15th anniversary Thursday with a series of "Lightning Conversations" that featured almost 70 scholars ...

"Black privilege is a myth, is a joke, is a punchline, is a time a teacher asks a little boy what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said alive." This is just one of the chilling and painfully honest statements poet ...

Starting in the wee hours of June 12, hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to binge-watch Season 3 of Netflix’s original production “Orange is the New Black.” The payoff for the vast majority of the audience ...

Starting in the wee hours of June 12, hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to binge-watch Season 3 of Netflix's original production "Orange is the New Black."The payoff for the vast majority of the audience is the ...

The sounds of children talking animatedly, laughing amusedly and wandering incessantly greet me as soon as I enter the cool respite of the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, housed in a beautifully renovated neoclassical bu...

Pin it We're going to guess that you or someone in your family has a cooler that looks like this hanging around their home. Have no fear--you can still use that beat-up old cooler; it just needs a bit of a makeover. Whic...

A dozen of Philadelphia's most accomplished and experimental dance artists have joined Graffito Works; a new company formed by New York-Philly based artistic director Steven Weisz and is his most ambitious dance project ...

There's something impossibly romantic about a sunset -- the warm light, the colorful sky, maybe a gentle breeze. And watching the sun set on your wedding day, taking in the beauty with your new husband or wife? Pure magi...

Monday Morning, June 8, 10 A.M: A score of journalists congregates in front of the architecturally revolutionary Seagram Building on East 52nd Street and Park Avenue. They are not here to confront the building's beleague...

"The number one way to overcome stage fright is: Learn How To Control Your Diaphragm and Slow Your Heart Rate. This is the Method of Physical Action. Constantine Stanislavsky, the inventor of Method Acting, learned that ...

"The number one way to overcome stage fright is: Learn How To Control Your Diaphragm and Slow Your Heart Rate. This is the Method of Physical Action. Constantine Stanislavsky, the inventor of Method Acting, learned that ...

Pin it Dear Alice, I used to occasionally (twice a week) park on a residential street near the building where I work. I would park there for the full work day where parking is completely legal and the street is wide and ...

Some leave home just for the season, others travel from city to city in search of steady work and send money home to their families. They are seasonal migrant workers, men and women who leave home in search of better eco...

In a time of galleries and museums that just can't resist attempting another (better!) stab at resolving the issues of our new digital, image-saturated world, reading another wall text about the Internet becomes exhausti...

They say hell is other people. Well, Disney has the answer to that -- a world with no people at all. The first trailer for "Zootopia," the next animated film for the studio, explains "humans never happened," which makes ...

Pin it A broom closet of varying depths and without any built-ins was collecting Carla's random stuff. She decided it might serve better as a place for paperwork and projects, and we love how she made this strange small ...

An online petition to ban baby ear piercing is taking off in the U.K. The petition, which addresses U.K. Minister of State for Children and Families Edward Timpson, calls for a minimum legal age requirement for ear pierc...