Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...

"It was sitting in a barn for so many years and it was just completely untouched. It was beyond dirty. It was so black that ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been ...

In 1996, what legendary Worcester hot spot did singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III perform to 53 patrons and actually ...

Loquacious, erudite, entertaining, maybe even a little pretentious, but agreeably so: these are all impressions of Robert ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century ... across the Holy Land, including ...

What could be more pleasing than an evening of extracts from George Eliot's diaries and novels read by Hermione Norris (Cold ...

a Greek doctor who had served the Persian court in the fourth century B.C. A 19th-century painting by José Casado del Alisal at the Facultad de Bellas Artes In Madrid depicts Semiramis in Dante's ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

The Saviour and St. Euphrosyne Convent in Polotsk celebrates its 900th anniversaryA great and bright holiday is celebrated on the ...

At its heart, Pride is both a party and a protest. Here's a look at the event's roots and this year's events and themes.

We take a trip to Antonín Dvořák’s birthplace, the composer summer hideaway Vysoká, and other spectacular cultural ...