Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy.

Erik Satie called Vexations ‘simple, yet arduous’. Igor Levit will be the first pianist to perform it solo in public.

General Sam Houston Day is set for Saturday, April 26, and will take visitors a step back in time for an event honoring Sam Houston and his times (1793-1863). Staff has spent the past year planning ...

Recently, Trump has joined a chorus of people likening the current political period to the Gilded Age – the late 19th-century period known for economic industrialization and wealth inequality. As a ...

“Hearing the pieces live just brings a completely new life into [it],” Rachit Keyal, a student in Solomon’s class, said. “It ...

The Britannia Coconut Dancers paraded through Bacup, Lancs and vowed not to "cower" to pressure to them stop blacking up.

Is Ring Around the Rosie really about the plague? Discover the rhyme’s dark myths, true origins, and global versions.

Today Architectural Digest is welcomed by musician Orville Peck to tour his mid-century tree house. Tucked away in the trees of Los Angeles, the nearly 7,000 square-foot property was built during ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...

Despite the disappearance of their original, practical purpose — which was on display in London in the 19th century, at the Great Exhibition of the Products of the Industry of All Nations — these ...