John Steinbeck, the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author, is widely considered one of the greatest American novelists who ever lived. John Steinbeck, the son of John Ernst Steinbeck, was born...
Painstaking operation to return The Adoration of the Lamb to its former glory has left many speechless A restoration of one of the world’s most famous paintings has been described...
“If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the continent of North America.” — George Catlin. George Catlin (1796-1872) was born in...
Sandra Hill leads a painting class at an arts center nestled amid rolling Virginia hills, about an hour and a half drive northwest of Washington, D.C. She has been a...
If you prefer your Giselle with original spirit intact, then Birmingham Royal Ballet is the one for you. David Bintley and Galina Samsova’s 1999 restaging purposely looked back to early...
The 2019 summer season at the Met Opera is full of bright events. 2019 Summer Recital Series The Met’s popular concert series in New York City parks in all five...
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is one of the most illustrious Spanish Baroque painters. Murillo, whose most famous works include the Soult Immaculate Conception and the Vision of Saint Anthony, is believed...
Victor Hugo was not enamoured with the title of Frederic Shoberl’s English translation of his 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris. For the future “great man” of French literature, the book’s...
Bruce Hornsby could have spent his years gradually winding down from MOR superstardom. He could have kept making albums that sounded a bit like The Way It Is, the lambent,...
When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, it didn’t go well. “My first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was terrible,”...
