From being celebrated as an auspicious season to being seen as a harbinger of despair, the monsoon has always evoked diverse emotions across the country—a contrast beautifully captured in Indian ...

Many of those who attended the trial returned to see a new play based on the case of Gisèle Pelicot, who confronted her ...

These pioneering artists have sustained a legacy of radical, often political art, over the course of decades. That their work ...

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the ...

I’d recently been on a perfume jag, wreathing myself in enticing scents from au-courant brands, but I liked this fragrance ...

Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved friend.

A gothic church in Poland has been transformed into a lush indoor forest as part of an innovative art installation.

Twenty-five years ago on Sept. 11, 2000, UPN debuted a comedy called “Girlfriends” that followed the lives of four Black women living in Los Angeles. The show’s creator, Mara Brock Akil, who ...

Who were the women who loved Picasso? A new biography reveals their stories and the ways in which they influenced the famous painter.

A lot of the enjoyment of Thiebaud’s retrospective is spotting the Easter eggs of earlier art, whether overt, covert, or something more subtle.