In a special exhibit featuring just three paintings, the Frick Collection in New York is inviting viewers to contemplate the age and the art of seduction by the written word.

The show brings together a trio of paintings by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer: the Frick's own "Mistress and ...

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Rachel Cusk, Leslie Jamison and other contemporary authors dissect failed marriage, relationships that survive from inertia, ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Adelaide Beeman-White crafts her own Victorian clothing, writes with dip pens, and has neighbors wondering about the "Mary ...

Michael "Bryce" Bunner is continuing the work his grandmother started. You can read this exclusive content thanks to the ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

It was what happened on the banks of the River Liffey which most influenced the invention of the modern game of hurling.

The 2025 edition of Wimbledon brings several milestone anniversaries with it. It's been 50 years since Arthur Ashe became the ...