The world's greatest paintings

Every four years, the FIFA World Cup captures the global imagination like no other sporting spectacle. With a cumulative television audience of several billion people tuning in to ...

As a major member of the New York School, Barnett Newman is celebrated for his radical explorations of color and scale and, as a precursor to the Minimalist movement, for his signi...

A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica—it predates Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness—by a mathematician of note who also wrote scie...

Theatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centurie...

This epilogue argues that John Philip Sousa came of age neither as a bandmaster nor as the March King. As a young man he was a theater musician training at Ford's Opera House, appr...

Animation has been a staple of the filmmaking process since the early days of cinema. Animated shorts had been produced for decades, but not until 1937 did a major studio venture i...

A fascinating exploration of the most significant superhero films and television shows in history, from the classic serial Adventures of Captain Marvel to the Disney+ hit show Wand...

Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age? From t...