Just barely visible in the evening sky on Feb. 28 was an exceptional planetary alignment, with Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all stacked...
CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams The publisher of “Careless People” kept the existence of this memoir a...
Anselm Kiefer’s new installation seems to envelop the grand staircase of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Paintings reach from floor to ceiling in colors of oxidized copper...
Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip....
“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a single...
Jerry Butler, the graceful singer and songwriter who served as the first leader of the Impressions before launching a long, hit-heavy solo career, died on Thursday...
THE REVOLUTIONARY SELF: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800, by Lynn Hunt “Over the course of the 1700s,” Lynn Hunt writes in...
One of the many merits of “Summer of Fire and Blood” is how Roper — despite being the author of a luminous biography of Luther —...
Unhappiness is a dreaded condition in the Civilization game series. Unhappy citizens stop working, stop researching scientific pursuits and, worst of all, start rioting. In the...
Yuko Mohri thought she knew what the Japanese government wanted from its artists: something conservative and quiet. It certainly wasn’t a renegade punk rocker with a...
