Search

On September 7, 1950, the government of East Germany detonated a set of dynamite charges beneath Berlin's old imperial palace, the first of a series of controlled explosions that in [...]

It is curious that few good films have been made about creative artists. To be sure, there is no end to potboilers about Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Michelangelo, [...]

SUCCESS WON too quickly, or too easily, before the age of 30 will bring the burden of impossible expectations--think of Orson Welles, or Vietnam War Memorial designer Maya Lin. The [...]

The article focuses on the impact of three American architects—Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson, and Louis Sullivan—who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and shaped post–Civil War American architecture. Topics include the evolving perception of Victorian architecture, the rigorous training and influence of the École on these architects, and the broader cultural significance of their work compared to literary and technological contemporaries.

IT HAS BEEN said that it is impossible to make an antiwar movie because war, for all its horrors, is exciting to watch on screen. You identify with the soldier [...]

LANGUAGE, the soul and tool of politics, is only rarely the subject of politics. But in the past few years, and with baffling speed, language has moved to the center [...]

The article focuses on the dynamic collaboration between architect Frank Furness and Theodore Roosevelt Sr. in designing an ambitious Victorian-era family home, emphasizing the challenges of blending artistic vision with practical constraints.

I CAN'T STOP watching my feet. I've spent the past 15 minutes jumping up and down on a mini-trampoline, and each time my body rises upward, my eyes gaze down. [...]

One has to be of a certain age to know the meaning of the phrase 'the unwritten law.' Made quaint by the sexual revolution, this was the unspoken understanding that [...]

Have we lost the art of making fine public spaces? The very question is fraught, and not just because it risks insulting the architects, planners, and landscapers who make those [...]

WHO comes to this country to see our sculpture? It is not our strong suit, to put it kindly. To an overwhelming extent, our public statues are platitudes in marble, [...]

CHANGES TO an academic curriculum normally do not arouse public controversy, but we do not live in normal times. Yale University's decision to abolish its venerable 'Introduction to Art History: [...]

NAZI GERMANY produced two wartime diaries of equal literary and historical significance but written from the most different perspectives conceivable. Victor Klemperer wrote furtively, in daily dread of transport to [...]

John le Carre died at the age of eighty-nine last December, a good thirty years after the end of the Cold War that his spy novels chronicled. He certainly knew [...]

SOMETIMES IT COMES during his lunges. Or it could be in the middle of a biceps curl, or maybe while he's sweating through some calisthenics. But as chef Kwame Onwuachi [...]

This fall gave us our first look at Frank Gehry's ambitious remodeling of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on which the architect has been toiling for more than a decade. [...]

Why memorize a 426-line German poem? Is wounded pride reason enough? A year or so ago, I was speaking with a couple of students about poetry, and I proposed that [...]