NEW YORK — When is something old considered new? If you’re talking about the Grammy Awards, that’s often whoever lands in the best new artist category, easily the weirdest of the races. Take Sabrina ...

Perhaps Huxley was a little too high-souled himself; vulgarity is a sin against taste rather than against art, as greater artists than Huxley–artists as various as Shakespeare, Balzac, Dickens, Titian ...

In a way, “A Tale of Two Cities,” an exhibit at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, is a comparison of fresh wounds and old scars. The group show includes paintings, sculpture, photos and fine craft ...

A woman with long, black braids stands near an arched window in one image. On another wall, an angel observes a chess player pondering his next move. The colorful scenes are part of Once Upon a Time, ...

Reflecting on the essential elements of storytelling, John Steinbeck wrote, “The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader.” How ...

Yamato Waki, Genji approaching death, from the series “The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn” (1989) (image courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Women figurative realist painters can enter to win ...

In a long hall of Chicago’s Field Museum there stand the completed results of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest sculptural commission ever completed by one ...