On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Sales of graphic novels have doubled over the past five years, to some parents' dismay. But data shows these books can have a ...

Born on March 23, 1937 in Tehran, Iran, he studied at the Brera Academy of Milan in Italy until 1959 before going on to teach at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Tehran ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Cinema, that magical realm where lives like ours are writ large, has had its fair share of star-crossed lovers over the years. From childhood sweethearts regrouping as changed people to career ...