This painting titled Cricket Match in India, its ephemeral quality reminiscent of Daniell’s feather-touch mastery, is one of the earliest depictions of the sport, and is set in 18th Century ...
This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.” ...
The use of coins as a form of money was invented in western Asia Minor in the early 7th century BCE. At the time when the coins in this case were struck, Greece was made up of separate city-states ...
This panel—once the long side of a sarcophagus, or coffin––depicts the abduction of the maiden Persephone by Hades, the Greek god of the underworld. On the left, Demeter, the Greek goddess of the ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can ...
The challenges and triumphs of the Christopher Reeve documentary. By Mia Galuppo Film Writer Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui first worked together on the Alexander McQueen doc McQueen. “We had ...
Some Billie Eilish fans are upset after they couldn't get the wristbands they paid for before Friday's concert in Glendale. 31-year-old George Mosley who was arrested for child sex trafficking in ...