If the world is a canvas, as Henry David Thoreau wrote, then we are brushes painting our legacies onto it. But if you’re a child in a place where plain adults create the rules, how do you assert some ...

A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the ...

The artist spent time researching Japanese migrants who left Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures for Hawaii, and the U.S.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

Dr. Moustafa Fahmi’s Psychological Engineering in European Theatre, which explores the "theatre of the absurd," was published ...

Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of ...

The late David Lynch was not an artist you had to understand. His films were not puzzles to solve, they were journeys that ...

In two new shows, the Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning star and F. Murray Abraham play against their younger selves.

Trinity Library is renowned for its medieval collections, but a new exhibition, which opened last night, showcases new ...

John Banville, Christy Nolan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Annie West are among the writers and artists featured in a new exhibition showcasing new treasures acquired by the Library.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel (Fig. 10) and Edward Burne-Jones’s Beguiling of Merlin (Figs. 3, 8); landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable.