Arts

When Archie Burnett walks onto a dance floor, he tends to take it over.That’s partly because he’s a big guy,...

Calculus is hard. Parallel parking is hard. Meeting and working with people who don’t look like you — that’s a...

He was born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wis., on June 9, 1928, to immigrants from Belarus, although other sources...

Follow our live coverage of the Tokyo Olympics.The Olympics opening ceremony is always a real-time visual puzzle, full of abstract...

Growing up in the 1930s and ’40s in the cosmopolitan port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Arturo Schwarz idolized European intellectuals.At...

Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the...

A historic register of Jewish burial records from the modern-day Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca is among artifacts that have been...

With this drama, the writer-director Agnieszka Holland tackles another complicated historical figure in the Czech herbal healer, Jan Mikolasek. Source...

It’s been a rocky road to the Tokyo Games, which, after being delayed a year by the pandemic, will now...

I was born during the Soviet period, when Russian and Soviet culture were imposed on us, but I like to...