Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

As someone who makes a living occasionally tasting spirits, one of my favorite phrases to use when describing liquor or wine ...

How do you define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made ...

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating troops discovered.

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of Medjugorje, Ivan Dragicevic ... Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned ...

From the outset, by titling their exhibition “At Face Value," the curators Robert Curcio and Leah Oates put into play a dynamic tension between appearance and subtext, the spoken message and the ...

This Week In Games! is written from idyllic Portland by Jean-Karlo Lemus. When not collaborating with Anime News Network, ...

Perhaps the most famous Brutalist building in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Brutalist architecture is characterized by raw concrete walls, imposing geometrism and repetition, ...

In this historical moment, as South Korea takes on the mantle of a “super-aged society,” Perhaps Sunny Days offers a timely touch of warmth to our consideration of the twilight years, establishing ...

Dominican Surrealist Iván Tovar invites us to follow him through the maze of his imagination … until the point of getting ...