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THE painting is called 'Forming the Fifth International.' On one side of the oversize canvas sits Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born socialist leader assassinated in Berlin in 1919 when she was […]

FROM afar, it looks like an Italian neo-realist director's vision of Camelot: the 13th-century Basilica of St. Francis (San Francesco), its sides ribbed with scaffolding, the base of its bell […]

SINCE it was rediscovered in the Jesuit Residence in Dublin in 1990, Caravaggio's 'Taking of Christ' has left Ireland only twice. In 1995, the painting spent a month at the […]

THE exhibition begins with a group of elegantly dressed settlers at the base of Niagara Falls in an 1823 painting by Alvan Fisher, and with a group of English explorers […]

TERRY TITCOMB's son Al was murdered on Nov. 22, 1994. Sandy King lost two of her sons to murder, in 1986 and 1991. Both women are natives of Charlestown, a […]

DEBORAH FEDERHEN, the curator of collections, was on her way to the postage machine in the mail room at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vt., when she stubbed her toe. […]

THESE MEN WERE decidedly not the victors. Instead of striding, they shuffled into an auditorium on the campus of the University of Massachusetts as if they were the bewildered colonels […]

IT LOOKS LIKE A STANDARD SEASCAPE, a crescent of rippling ocean meeting a glowing granite shore. In the corner, a tidal spray spews upward out of a jagged, rocky mouth. […]

IT BEGINS WITH A WOODEN bridge, or something that vaguely resembles a bridge, with three figures that vaguely resemble humans trying to make their way across it. Under the bridge, […]

IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE A POST-MODERN installation, Cimabue's 'Crucifixion' suspended in midair by four stainless-steel cables in the damp, dark Santa Croce refectory. A masterpiece of 13th-century Italian painting, Cimabue's […]

SHE SPENDS HER DAYS ON HER feet, hunched over an enormous magnifying glass. She works with a carefully developed selection of cleaning solvents that she applies to paint scales the […]

IT WAS CALLED OFFENSIVE, irreverent and anti-Semitic when it was shown abroad. Now 'Balagan,' a documentary about the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary Israel, will be shown this afternoon, […]

Faustino Asprilla turns his trademark acrobatic cartwheel each time he scores a goal. He has been turning it often for the Colombian national team. 'Asprilla is our Diego Maradona,' said […]

On Saturday, on the eve of their Italian Open final, Boris Becker said he did not think Pete Sampras was superman. Today, Becker had to reconsider. 'He is playing tennis […]

Playing with patience, and helped by an adversary who was missing in action for large stretches of the match, Boris Becker eliminated Goran Ivanisevic, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), today to reach […]

Tennis on clay still doesn't feel right, like a too-stiff pair of jeans, like a song played too slowly. He has a tough time knowing when he should come to […]

PETER GREENAWAY IS addressing an audience at Alfieri Atelier Cinema, an art house here, after the recent Italian premiere of his latest film, 'The Baby of Macon.' 'While I was […]

THE EFFECT OF THE VIRUS IS blatant, too blatant even to think of concealing: his skin is a dull copper color and hangs on him 'like the shirt of Nessus' […]

It was the battle that wasn't -- an explosive, well-balanced firefight that was smothered before it could ignite. Playing with total concentration and focus, Jim Courier suppressed hard-serving Goran Ivanisevic […]

Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia came to Rome hoping to win a couple of matches. Instead, he may leave with his first Italian Open title. Today, the fourth-seeded Ivanisevic defeated top-seeded […]

Conchita Martinez and a searing Roman sun teamed up today to deny Gabriela Sabatini in her bid to win a third consecutive Italian Open title. Playing in her first final […]

Gabriela Sabatini combined patience and power here today to defeat top-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-1, 6-3, in the semifinals of the Italian Open. The Sabatini victory ended Sanchez Vicario's winning […]

SET ABOVE A LONG ROW of cypresses in the midst of an English-style garden, the Villa Vignamaggio lords over a hilly Tuscan landscape largely unchanged since the Gherardini family first […]

Take a group of 12 men who shared the cruel fate of being among the first 1,112 Jews deported from France to Auschwitz in 1942 and the inexplicable good fortune […]

Wearing a sleeveless crew T-shirt and matching black gym shorts over a torn, threadbare blue sweatsuit, 33-year-old Giuseppe Abbagnale leans against the doorway of the Circolo Nautico di Stabia boathouse […]

HE may look natural at his work. And his victories this season might well be because of a prodigious inborn talent for keeping his weight centered and forward while tracing […]

It was his first World Cup victory of the season, the first after the worst start of his career, a start that prompted many experts to conclude that Marc Girardelli […]

Chris Coleman was hyperventilating from the pressure at the finish line of the 50-meter ice track. Tom Allen was weeping at the start. And except for the 9-thousandths of a […]

Herschel Walker, the Minnesota Vikings running back, burst out of the block and blasted down the 50-meter indoor ice track to register the fastest time today in the bobsled pushoff […]

There are many racing skills and techniques that can be mastered in training. Speed, however, is not one of them. In skiing, as in most sports, it is an innate […]

When the United States skier A. J. Kitt walked over to the edge of the corral at the bottom of the slope here today, he found the only other American […]

Subjugated, exploited, perhaps even abused by her irascible, libertine artist father. Raped at 18 by one of her father's colleagues, forced into silence, then forced into a marriage to restore […]

A stiff wind known as the Bora whips off the Adriatic and bustles through this port city caught between two cultures: of Italy and Yugoslavia, whose border lies 10 minutes […]