The WritersBLOCK / ReadersBLOCK project in Hobart is a reminder of the importance of stories, and the benefits of making time ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for posterity, proposed cuts to the institution give her experiment extra weight.

The written word has become performance art. The paradox is that while reading is given short shrift, people love to consume ...

In the past few years, writers have been liberated from traditional publishers with the advent of platforms like Substack, and there’s been a mushrooming of individual newsletters. But could it be ...

In Indian art, music, and cinema, artists have long associated seasons with emotions — thunderstorms and swirling clouds symbolising confusion or despair, peacocks heralding the arrival of the ...

Continuing the theme of last week's Perspective cover story, here are more summer reading suggestions for those interested in ...

He became so enamored with Detroit that he has also created two different video montages chronicling his experiences in the ...

Language columnist Richard Lederer and musical comedian Bill Shipper team up July 23 to deliver a double dose of wordplay in music and song.

Tanglewood’s summer season opens July 5 with 145 events over 11 weeks, including opera, world premieres and performances by ...

With no solid object of fixed colour against which to correlate, "blue" has historically had the capacity to range loosely over the colour spectrum. In the case of Japan, "ao" denoted a range of blue ...