Ray Bradbury: full of a great sense of joy
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...
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...
In many parts of England, cathedrals face a financial crisis: they are expensive to maintain, often need renovations and are almost entirely self-funded – which means they are under constant...
A team of UK scientists believe they have found the formula for box office success. After analysing data from 6,147 movie scripts and filtering it through a series of algorithms,...
When you are planning a major expedition, the first “must-have” to include on your packing list is naturally thousands of books. On Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition of 1901-04,...
The companion exhibition to the Driehaus Museum’s Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraiture in America, this intimate gallery comprised of ten paintings focuses on prominent Chicago citizens and the portraits they...
The skylines of Britain’s great cities, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, are dominated by two great architectural styles, which compete with one another for the attention of the...