A brilliant pianist, conductor and composer, Rachmaninov wrote a piano concerto that has become the nation’s favourite piece of classical music. A young musical genius Sergei Rachmaninov was born on...
The precocious son of a poor carpenter, Andrea Mantegna was just 17 when he painted a masterpiece that stunned his contemporaries of 570 years ago. Before he was 30, he...
Painter Jeff Faust’s compositions bridge a variety of styles and forms of what he calls “subtle surrealism.” The self-taught artist conjures the more lustrous qualities out of his oil paint...
In October 18 – 21, the San Diego Art Gallery opens its doors to accept the lovers of contemporary art. The show will be located in beautiful Wyland Center at...
The 19th Leeds piano competition was won on Saturday night by Eric Lu, a 20-year-old from Boston in the United States, whose sparkling and supremely confident performance of Beethoven’s fourth...
Lovers of literature call him an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. On subjects...
The recent death of Broadway legend Neil Simon recalled memories of his wonderful body of work, not the least of which was The Odd Couple, which premiered as a play...
The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, built in 1908, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Developer Eric Blumenfeld calls the 39,200-square-foot Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House “the...
Initially, Zaha Hadid was called the “paper architect”, her plans were perceived to be unbuildable. For years, her designs struggled to move beyond the sketch phrase and be transformed into...
Andy Warhol, the great American conceptual artist, was born 90 years ago. Known for the multimedia works exploring popular iconography that poured out of his New York City studio, The...
