Wood and wood carvings from the Index of American design, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y., 20 November-31 December 1988

Peter Hall (1930–2017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern age. Under his direction, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatr...

During his lifetime (1888-1970), Hall Johnson's concert arrangements of spirituals have been performed and recorded by stellar singers, such as Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Kat...

A party the de Koonings attended at the home of Fritz Hensler in 1952 was an alcohol-fueled example of Artists Behaving Badly—increasingly common as the decade progressed. During t...

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the...

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by compet...