Only three weeks old, the new Trump presidential power in town knows the price of everything (except eggs) and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde observed of fools and cynics. Let's add "shameless." ...

Heartbeat Opera specializes in daring reductions of the classics, and this may be its most implausible undertaking yet.

The entertainer’s collection also includes rare books—such as very early editions of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being ...

Victoria Siddall, now in one of art’s most prestigious jobs, talks balancing family, work and the environmental impact of ...

Some names signal cultural identity, while others are designed to be as bland as possible so as to avoid drawing the wrong ...

As she prepares for her first Oscars as a nominee, the star of “The Substance” talks about the daring role that revitalized ...

History speaks of the green fairy, an enchanting liquor with a storied past: Absinthe, now popular again, Oscar Wilde's favorite drink, was once banned.

Whistler's paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

A Song of Ascents’ at Hepworth Wakefield occupies a space between specificity and generality – to intoxicating effect ...

Should we discard works of artists accused of unthinkable things?: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic ...

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