Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.

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Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Hearing the words ‘remains of a whaling station’ in reference to the tidal island of Rusheen, just off the coast of Inishkea ...

With a new show at the Cleveland Museum, fashion’s favorite artist is back in the conversation.

As an undergrad, I mocked the radical leftist turned reactionary. But with his cruel, vindictive politics taking over the ...

The way your letters slant or curve and the direction of your pen strokes can reveal a lot about your personality, according ...

Bringing an aesthetic eye to the work of securing a shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Sam Fleischner’s film highlights ...

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If "good enough" has become your life motto, it’s worth exploring why you’ve settled. Settling often stems from fear of ...

They say that this well never runs dry, that there is always an unending supply of sweet, fresh water, drawn from a deep ...