"The children new to school enjoy coloring illustrations in textbooks," says Li Hongbo, an art professor at Jilin Normal ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

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

He lays out the case for why such a system still represents “the best way to organize and direct the deep tensions that ...

Wajsbrot demands the full attention of her reader as she plays with form, ideas and writing in this novel about an unnamed protagonist arriving in Dresden to translate Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lightho ...

In Lightscape at the Marciano Art Foundation and his Regen Projects exhibition, polymedia artist Doug Aitken elucidates how ...

The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for centuries.

Lord Byron’s influence on musicians was immense – with Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Schoenberg among the ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

In the Aeneid, written in the first century BC by Virgil, Prince Aeneas of Troy is described as sailing to Italy and visiting the region where Rome would later be established. But when he arrived in ...