A local art historian, in his review, compared Schjerfbeck to Titian, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and Beethoven. Notice the ...

i) neutral between the view that consciousness is (to simplify) identical to parts of your brain and what goes on inside of ...

With only around 40 surviving works—nearly all held in museum collections—the artist’s paintings are among the rarest of any ...

"These stories cannot offer the comfort of resolution when no such comfort is available in the shifting society they portray" - Anna Collins-Room reflects on the pivotal role of epiphany in the ...

The Morgan Library has organized a must-see show around the loan of a major Caravaggio from the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

COMMENT: It is poised to sweep Oscar season, but Chloé Zhao’s tale of Shakespearean grief – starring Jessie Buckley and Paul ...

Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual ...

In Train Dreams, Clint Bentley’s expressive adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella (co-written by his Sing Sing director and co-scribe Greg Kwedar), Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon don’t share the ...

An abundance of great directors has distinguished Japanese cinema almost from its start. Yet many have not earned lasting fame in the West—among them Mikio Naruse, who died in 1969 at age 63. His vast ...

While standing mid-ascent on Mount Zas, the highest summit in the Greek Cyclades, a trail guide advised me and my family to peer out across the vast Aegean Sea. Through the salty haze, a small island ...

Naturalism is a broad category in philosophy that has its roots in natural philosophy. In Europe, before the scientific Enlightenment, scholars differentiated the world into the natural and ...

The hundred years that have elapsed since the first publication of Origin of Species have by no means abated the interest which Darwin kindled. As evolutionary theories have multiplied, so ...